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Kudos on trauma center
In the important but restrictive category of “good news when you have traumatic news,” Providence Regional Medical Center…
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Judgment at high speed
The trouble with high-speed police pursuits is biology. Adrenaline plus (nearly always) testosterone, and behavior can mimic road…
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No teeth in advisory votes
There are five advisory measures on the November ballot, and their value is (how to put this without…
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Elect Ken Klein to Council
On Monday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s editorial page did something exceptional: They recommended “none-of-the-above” in Virginia’s caustic gubernatorial race.…
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Need for more beds great
Reassuringly, people spoke in support of plans to build a 75-bed psychiatric hospital at Smokey Point during a…
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Resetting the cuckoo clock
If the cuckoo clock is annoying you, it’s time to tinker with its inner works.
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Re-elect Mayor Joe Marine
Joe Marine, Mukilteo’s two-term mayor, merits re-election. His deliverables list, from the Rosehill Community Center to the new…
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Lost during the shutdown
Unfasten your seatbelts and chuck the beta blockers: The debt crisis has been drop-kicked to another time. At…
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A reluctant no to I-522
The battle over labeling foods for genetically modified ingredients holds a mirror to deviating interests. Of the two…
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Vote no on Eyman’s I-517
Initiative 517, a self-serving contrivance from Tim Eyman’s shop, is curiously un-Eyman-ish. Conservative and nonpartisan totems such as…
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A matter of time, money
Seattle fans know the feeling: groaning as their team snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Vote for Wenta, Guymon
At times, the Everett School Board exhibits all the charm of a band of avenging Cossacks. Trivial issues…
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A harder line on Hanford
The art of misdirection: As magicians know, the technique is to focus audience attention on one thing (consider…
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Ryan for county council
Blessed are the policy wonks, for theirs is the kingdom of public service.
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Murphy deserves city seat
Everett often has the feel of Edward Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks:” a spare, preserved-in-amber town. Work of the…
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Next steps for Yakima plan
Last week’s federal government shutdown, the antithesis of working together, has overshadowed a massive transaction emblematic of cooperation.
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Somers merits re-election
Dave Somers navigated the road less traveled, from citizen-candidate to principled lawmaker. He’s an inspired exception to a…
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Insurance, by the numbers
Anyone who has laid eyes on the USS Lincoln or USS Nimitz knows it takes a lot of…
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Hope for the waterfront
Everett’s future is anchored to a shoulder of industrial land that fronts Port Gardner. The old Kimberly-Clark mill…
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Kick the brand name habit
With everything, everywhere seemingly “breaking bad,” let’s look at an economic-educational-health bright spot: Generic drugs. A new study…