Opinion
A next step for aerospace
Thursday in Everett, Gov. Jay Inslee unveiled his statewide aerospace strategy. It was a cogent blueprint predicated on…
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Stopping a health disaster
It’s that time of year again: time to take stock of your life and consider the resolutions that…
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Why Lowell’s story matters
Some places are emblematic of the Pacific Northwest, only more so.
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Failure to communicate
If it wasn’t clear before, we now know the biggest obstacle in trying to prevent terrorism is our…
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Torture’s lasting damage
Earlier this week, Army Maj. Ian Fishback, a West Point instructor, visited Seattle’s Town Hall to speak of…
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Do not touch that lookout
Thanks to an insensible lawsuit, the Green Mountain fire lookout in the Glacier Peak Wilderness is a verb.…
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The Inslee aerospace vision
Aerospace, like timber and agriculture, is embedded in the soil: The Pacific Northwest has seeded and harvested engineers…
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The sound and the fatigue
It’s a bleeping, beeping noisy world we live in. It’s no secret. But relentless, unpleasant sounds are bad…
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Honoring Biendl’s memory
The trial of the Monroe inmate who murdered corrections officer Jayme Biendl in 2011 brings into focus questions…
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Just say no to more tanks
Just when everything seems pretty dire, with all the sequester talk, and budget cutback woes, comes the kind…
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An absent political center
In politics, the sensible center is a lonely place. No matter that most Snohomish County voters consider themselves…
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Reardon’s resignation date
May marks the culmination of Snohomish County’s slow-motion Arab Spring.
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Time for Oly to get to work
To adjourn “sine die” needs to be struck from Olympia’s list of nebulous terms. It means without a…
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The silent avalanche threat
It’s one of nature’s dangerous contradictions: as spring brightens life down here, the conditions grow deadly in the…
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Tell it to the state ombuds
Whew. We can all rest (gender neutrally) easy, since the state is in the final stages of scouring…
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WSU’s North Sound future
He is a 57-year old North Carolina native who lives in Pullman. But more than any Northwest muckamuck,…
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Boost mainstreet retailers
Federal lawmakers should come together in common cause to unscramble a tax dodge that squeezes small business while…
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Northwest defines service
Volunteerism and National Service are part of the Pacific Northwest’s cultural fabric. Generation after generation, service defines us.…
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It’s time for a carbon tax
Earth Day. Conceived by Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and organized by Seattle’s Denis Hayes, the mission is…