Opinion
A bank regulation too far
The law of unintended consequences fixes on policies crafted with the best intentions. Consider Wall Street reforms, legislative…
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Candy-fed cows like soda
We’re headed into the final innings of the campaign. Take your much-deserved seventh-inning stretch while we take some…
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Re-elect President Obama
Months before his 2008 election, Barack Obama became a force greater than himself. The hair-pulling final days of…
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Re-elect Maria Cantwell
The United States Senate was conceived as a constitutional check, an upper chamber sheltered from political crosswinds. Who…
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Vote yes on SJR 8221
As the Yiddish proverb reminds us, “Interest on debts grows without rain.” Thankfully for Northwesterners, rain is an…
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Re-elect Liias, Roberts
Rep Marko Liias is an exceptional lawmaker of the worth-emulating school, value-driven, wonky and tireless. The son of…
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Vote yes on charter schools
Public charter schools, like religion and politics, should not be discussed in polite company (or at a union…
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Elect Suzan DelBene
Washington’s new 1st Congressional district hangs together like a Dutch colony, with no coherence or logic to lines…
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Re-elect Kathy Vaughn
Public power is a Northwest touchstone. Scrutinize its history and our region’s long narrative of fair play, public…
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Vote no on Eyman’s I-1185
For years, Northwest voters and The Herald have embraced a supermajority requirement on state lawmakers hoping to fiddle…
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Tackling a mixed history
Five years ago a tangle of events, seemingly disconnected, topped off at the Everett Elks club. The Illegal…
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Immaturity just a phase
With the harvest moon shining a spotlight, October is ready for its 2012 debut. Doesn’t “Wax and Wane”…
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McKenna for governor
In baseball parlance, campaigning for governor is going to the show. No state office is freighted with more…
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Elect Bill Finkbeiner
The office of lieutenant governor sits deep in the heart of down-ballot purgatory. Unlike most states, the Olympia…
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Elect Haugen, Smith, Hayes to Legislature
State Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen was first elected to her local school board in 1972, the same year…
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Human rights app needed
Apple is Apple because everything associated with it is beautiful, sleek and cool. Except, of course, those manufacturing…
Opinion
When the budget ax falls
“Sequestration” packs an ominous right hook. (Don’t we sequester patients with chicken pox and SARS?) The word evokes…
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Fifty shades of fall foliage
Ah, fall. Enjoy the leaves changing color while it’s still light enough to see them. Let’s rake up…
Opinion
Why the Carnegie matters
Nearly a year after the Snohomish County History Museum was given the boot, Everett’s historic Carnegie Building sits…