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Philanthropy gets creative
Two recent items from the “teach a man to fish and you feed him for lifetime” file caught…
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Finally, real transformation?
In the three months since the Legislature ended an agonizingly indecisive special session, the budget picture it was…
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Common sense takes leave
While the state is involved in all sorts of landmark legal cases — from petition signers to challenging…
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Indecision is inhumane
By the end of this week, 18,600 laid-off Washingtonians will have exhausted all of their unemployment benefits, the…
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‘Open’ doesn’t mean ‘closed’
The state’s open public meeting law isn’t that difficult to understand, it really isn’t.
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Reality overcomes the myth
As teen fugitive Colton Harris-Moore’s two-year crime spree grew into a media obsession, so did complaints that he…
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Congress must push back
For all the talk of change on the campaign trail, the Obama administration is playing politics as usual…
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Bottle some of that unity
Boeing Machinists, company representatives and a crowd of politicians will put on a high-energy show of unity this…
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Industry ought to fund it
No national or statewide solution was at hand for a glaring and growing problem. So six months ago,…
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Magnets for public cynicism
Few local topics have generated as many letters on this page the past couple of years than red-light…
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Flying the larval-stage skies
Sometimes a troubling news story can help put everything in perspective.
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It’s threatened from within
Two hundred thirty-four years after the birth of the United States of America, it’s hard not to question…
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‘Legal’ doesn’t mean ethical
The last time Greg Royer, Washington State University’s vice president for business and finance, was in the news,…
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Kendall leaves city stronger
He’ll resign as mayor with 17 months left in his second term, but Dennis Kendall won’t be shortchanging…
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Good ideas seem so elusive
Even though “mistakes were made,” repeatedly, sometimes the lesson just doesn’t take:
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Can’t ignore illegal subsidies
Bipartisanship, it turns out, is still possible on Capitol Hill — when a clearly sensible idea comes forth.
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Completing a worthy vision
The National Parks may well be America’s Best Idea, as filmmaker Ken Burns declared in his recent PBS…