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Paying costs of getting around
The money isn’t in hand — that will have to wait for Congress to complete the federal budget…
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An Opportunity of a lifetime
The news is improving for college graduates, and gets even better for those with degrees in science, technology,…
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Getting ready for the big one
By now our concerns about earthquakes, specifically “The Really Big One” discussed in the New Yorker article of…
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Counting the costs of wildfire
After last year’s drought and record wildfire season, there’s some comfort in looking up into the Cascades and…
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Where accountability is lacking
To listen to Republicans in the Legislature, there’s an accountability problem in state government.
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Make cardio health priority
It’s time the color red rises to the level of pink, when it comes to women’s health awareness.…
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Support local school levies, bonds
Even when the Legislature adopts a plan that satisfies the state Superme Court’s McCleary mandate and ends the…
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Automatically registering voters
One of the ideas behind the National Voter Registration Act in 1993, also known as “Motor Voter,” was…
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Give students freedom to learn free speech
Regardless of what one thinks of the future of newspapers and other print media, journalism in some form…
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Response to homelessness builds on success of others
The news isn’t good, but the timing of the City of Everett, Snohomish County and others is.
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Rule on public facilities protects transgendered
Discomfort regarding what goes on in public restrooms and locker rooms is understandable, as both involve things we’d…
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People priced out of homes
The housing market — particularly new construction — sadly reflects our country’s economic reality: The rich get richer,…
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Needed reforms for state parks and recreation grants program
A legislative maneuver last year threatened to politicize the objective process used to distribute grant money to recreation…
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EvCC’s student focus earns national honor
Years ago, the knock on community colleges was that they were little more than “high schools with ashtrays.”
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Former state officials need to cool heels before lobbying
A state ethics board has dismissed as “obviously unfounded or frivolous” complaints that three former state officials had…
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Stop-gap measures needed with I.O.U.
“I.O.U. one comprehensive plan for amply funding basic education and ending reliance on local school levies to provide…
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Group Health’s ‘best path forward’ is sale to Kaiser
About 27,000 members of Group Health have a weighty decision coming in the next few weeks; they will…
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Two-thirds tax hurdle unnecessary, unwise, ill-timed
Tim Eyman may be better at reading the will of the voters than he is at guessing the…
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Help military ban tobacco
When Hawaii made public health history by being the first state to raise the smoking age to 21…
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Approve Lake Stevens school bond
Unlike other communities in Snohomish County that are able to rely on industrial and retail areas to help…