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Compassion gone awry
“This will go down on your permanent record.” Eye roll.
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Putting consumers first
Budgets inform decision-making (keep awake, dear reader, it gets better.)
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Peace after the IAM vote
The takeaway from the International Association of Machinists’ tsunami rejection of the pistol-to-your-head Boeing contract: Working people don’t…
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The bully brotherhoood
Not surprisingly, Richie Incognito, the Miami Dolphins player suspended “for conduct detrimental to the team” was voted by…
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Why today’s pick matters
An awkward question rebounds from the 777X clatter: Why do most employees working at the largest manufacturing facility…
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Building a force for good
Community foundations are an unheralded gem, remaking the face of local nonprofits and philanthropy. Nimble and creative, community…
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Of service and sacrifice
On this day, it is a fine thing to honor all veterans. But it is also appropriate to…
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Uphold medical pot law
Where exactly in Initiative 502, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state, does it instruct the State Liquor…
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The post-election breather
Cry post-election and let slip the chin-scratching class, with pretentious I-told-you-so’s and noodling of voter data that no…
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Welcome home, Boeing
The agonizing courtship of the 777X has been reduced to the sweetest suitor of all, the working women…
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Leadership at the morgue
A county morgue evokes the same turn-away reaction as a Mr. Bean film. “The real world is simply…
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Herald editorial board’s endorsements
Ballots must be dropped off or mailed by Tuesday, Nov. 5.
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Playing politics with food
Two congressional conference committees are trying to manufacture consensus from raw materials that may never mesh.
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Everett’s great potential
What’s the cure for a bad candy hangover? A sugary coffee drink? Served by a hillbilly bikini barista?
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DelBene: Rein in the NSA
The Pacific Northwest spawns gadfly lawmakers who don’t shape-shift to political currents. Sens. Wayne Morse of Oregon and…
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Apathy isn’t a good excuse
Voter turnout (or in the all-mail-in universe, “ballot return”) is an index of civic engagement, but it also…
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The West’s climate agenda
Writer Wallace Stegner described California as America, “only more so.” It’s a definition that extends to the Pacific…
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To emulate Sam Reed
Civility falls away at election time. But pink-faced shrieking and online takedowns aren’t seasonal. Incivility is endemic and…