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Moving on transportation
On Nov. 17, the first day of the Dubai Air Show, Boeing will announce one or more launch…
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Sleep deserves our respect
Ever elusive, ever important, sleep is in the news again. University of Wisconsin researchers have discovered that sleep…
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Striving for best practices
To take in the headlines is to become Thomas Hobbes. “The life of man,” the 17th century English…
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Countdown to Obamacare
Forty million Americans without health insurance. That was the great-shame talking point, the rhetorical fuse for health reform.…
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Limiting sewer overflows
Over Labor Day, Snohomish County residents received an unwelcome primer on the mechanics of combined sewer overflows. Thursday’s…
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From Syria to Head Start
“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography,” Ambrose Bierce wrote more than a century ago.
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You deserve a break today
Everyone who labors deserves today’s holiday. And everyone who labors today, deserves extra pay, our thanks, and a…
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CEO pay a growing insult
On Thursday, as fast food workers across the nation walked off their jobs to protest their low pay,…
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Progress on jail reforms
After eight deaths at the county jail since 2010, Snohomish County Sheriff Ty Trenary unveiled plans Tuesday to…
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And the day after we strike?
The tragedy of war tracks a centuries-old narrative, of old men dreaming up wars for young men (and…
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More questions about the jail
An hour in custody at the Snohomish County jail was an hour too long for Bill Williams, 59.…
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Vigilance on civil rights
The trouble with history is it isn’t yet history. The late Richard Neustadt and Ernie May argued that…
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Why Tom Foley matters
Old age burns at the close of day, Dylan Thomas wrote, but Tom Foley isn’t raging against the…
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A lasting political legacy
The most enduring legacy in politics is the conservation of wild places for future generations. But those yet-unborn…
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Developer’s doublespeak
So, San Diego developer OliverMcMillan, which bills itself as an “internationally-renowned firm that develops and transforms ordinary locations…
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Stand up for the waterfront
The upside of corporate personhood — the legal doctrine enshrined by the U.S. Supreme Court that corporations have…
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Sometimes, less means less
Who works for minimum wage? Once upon a time, the answer came easier.
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No more Hanford delays
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia made the right decision Aug. 13, siding with…
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Important wins for justice
Two major wins for our criminal justice system this week, and they are not unrelated: First, U.S. Attorney…