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Some welcome inspiration
It’s coincidence that the week of the boring Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the same week that…
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Locally, the fight continues
In the battle against smoking, the forces of public health have gained considerable ground. Lives are being improved,…
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Right answer: early learning
At a time when China and other countries that educate their children in successfully regimented and rigorous ways…
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Aim for maximum certainty
Economic uncertainty, Democratic and Republican leaders agree, is keeping businesses and their lenders from making investments that will…
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Blogging in the free world
Ah, July. Is the year half empty or half full? Let’s look optimistically at the pessimistic headlines. Or…
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Crushing our own future
Want to see a major reason why health-care costs are too high? Look in the mirror, America. Just…
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Early take on 3 measures
With supporters of statewide initiatives set to turn in signatures today in Olympia, here’s our early take on…
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Customers remain fat targets
With their federal bailouts, imaginative consumer fees, and intrusive marketing practices, big banks make a good case for…
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No reason to worry, right?
Maybe there’s no reason to worry. Maybe congressional Republicans are just really tough negotiators. Maybe, beneath their uncompromising…
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A much-needed summer gift
It can be tough waking up on the morning after the Fourth of July. Even if your own…
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Fast food selling the sauce
Happy Independence Day. Let’s light the fuse on some headlines. (Just like fireworks, snakes and duds lurk among…
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In the end, the only choice
Twenty-one seconds. According to investigators, that’s all that elapsed between the time former Everett Police Officer Troy Meade…
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Timing right for new facility
The Everett School District’s plan to construct a $23.3 million facility to house administrative offices and host community…
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May local efforts inspire more
Let’s take back technological advances that have been sullied by tawdry tweets. In between porn and revolution resides…
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A legacy of fairness, civility
Voters in Washington have had no greater advocate, nor a firmer voice for fairness, transparency and civility, than…
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A promising early matchup
We realize that Rob McKenna and Jay Inslee might not be the only major candidates who run for…
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Finding justice for football
It’s vacation time, so let’s hop aboard the headline express: •”Long-beaked tropical dolphins spotted in Puget Sound”: Biologists…
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Don’t fight to silence voters
It’s remarkable how carefully Monroe’s elected officials listened to legal advice last week, given how tone deaf they…
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Court’s logic hard to swallow
First Amendment supporters can breath a sigh of relief. The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down a Vermont…
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He served his nation well
Few Cabinet officials in U.S. history have deserved the nation’s gratitude more than Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who…