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Re-elect Dunshee, Hope
Politics is more than bombast, finger pointing, and I-love-me-and-you-should-too mailers. It’s the art of the possible. The means…
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New tracks a genuine win
A moment of silence for the state’s last two high school tracks made of cinder. Wait. Scratch that.…
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Ending the longest war
America’s good war — insofar as wars are ever good — has turned into America’s longest war. From…
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Amend terrible farm bill
Farm bills, like Christmas trees, are often ornamented with so much tinsel it’s hard to discern how exactly…
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Re-elect McCoy and Sells
Legislative leadership — the capacity to herd cats and give others credit for cobbling legislation — is as…
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A time for voting rights
State lawmakers should enshrine the principle of “one person, one vote” and pass the Washington Voting Rights Act.…
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Maybe U.S. 2 can be fixed
Maybe it’s not fair to judge U.S. 2 by a five-day window, to tally the number of those…
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Questioning authority
In the 1960s and ’70s, Admiral H.G. Rickover, father of America’s nuclear navy, personally interviewed all candidate submariners,…
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Remembering 9/11’s legacy
Sept. 11 marks a horrifying, quasi-sacred anniversary. The scale of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center…
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A billion Twitter followers
If you were running for office, is there an accomplishment of yours that might be revealed to be…
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Here come the candidates
Voting is the cornerstone of participatory democracy, and few rituals are as inherently private. An axiom of casual…
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Take steps to grow old well
It’s a cruel truth: the golden years won’t be golden for many Americans.
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Put football in its place
As the Penn State University sexual abuse scandal unfolded in all its ugly detail, the entire “football culture”…
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Reopen Suiattle Road
Wilderness becomes an abstraction if it’s only accessible in coffee-table books and PBS documentaries. For more than a…
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Labor’s native home
For generations, Labor Day, harbinger of the school year and the end of summer, was embedded in the…
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Uniforms benefit students
Nothing like years of recession, and irritating commercials for back-to-school clothing to reinforce the excellent idea of requiring…
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Everett’s post-mill future
The Kimberly Clark mill is Everett’s Rorschach test. For history nerds, the mill is a 1940s, sepia-toned snapshot…
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Pump up the bike tires
Sir Isaac the Storm is teaming up with Labor Day to provide a predictable one-two punch to “explain”…
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Benchmarks for Olympia
As Washingtonians, leg gaiter by leg gaiter, slowly pull out of the Great Recession ooze, lawmakers and a…