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Combatting bad viruses
It’s a good time to be a bad virus.
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A cabinet chief with pull
The nomination of REI’s Sally Jewell to serve as U.S. Secretary of Interior marks a sea change in…
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Easing pain of the dying
Sadly, it’s too late to help Linda and Donald McNeely. But to learn from tragedy, to help others,…
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The selling of The Herald
Over the past decade, disruption in media has become the norm. Curmudgeons are hauled to seminars to learn…
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A start for the Boy Scouts
Sometime today, the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) will vote to end its…
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EvCC’s promising future
Redevelopment is urban biology. For planning to click, construction, building and transportation need to nestle into a larger…
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The next county executive
Campaigns are the new Farmer’s Almanac. Prognosticators check wind patterns and measure drifting topsoil. The future, obscured, comes…
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Middle class needs GET
Legislators exhibit their core beliefs (and core dislikes) as they triage the state budget. Who benefits and who…
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For Medicaid expansion
The Affordable Care Act is titanic, a complex, far-reaching mandate that will reshape health care delivery in the…
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Foiling fake plots no help
As the country continues to reel from the wide awake nightmare that was Newtown, Conn., and indeed, from…
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Bipartisanship at its best
Bipartisanship. Like ice box and typewriter, its use is a betrayer of age. Polarization is the status quo.…
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Support for gun buybacks
Gun buybacks are an expression of faith, a belief in the unseen. A case of domestic violence avoided,…
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Public will on cuts, taxes
Politics and accountability are interwoven. In a frenzied era of initiatives and referenda, decisions on sin taxes, criminal…
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Accelerating local light rail
To take a long view of light rail requires a Job-like constancy, a mapmaker’s eye and an unnatural…
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Auditing the ferry system
A marine expressway lattices Puget Sound from Bremerton to the San Juan Islands. Travel cut by sea air…
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Football and painkillers
Speaking of sports cheaters, and our “culture of violence,” it’s long past time football — the NFL, the…
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Promoting civil discussion
The scream room reaches maximum capacity in the wee hours, often coinciding with last call at the neighborhood…
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Obama’s Western vision
In his second inaugural address, an emboldened President Obama presented an inclusive vision for America, along with a…
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MLK, now more than ever
As we devolve into our texty, Twittery modes of 21st century communication, the eloquence of Martin Luther King…
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Straight talk on the budget
For political linguists, Gov. Jay Inslee is a gift from God. One part green-tech wunderkind, two parts Yogi…