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Comment: Boeing should consider its new CEO a ‘bridge’ leader

Kelly Ortberg has CEO experience. That’s helpful early in an official’s tenure; less so for the long term.

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Mayor: Tough choices must follow no vote on Everett tax

The voters have spoken. Now, the city needs residents’ direction on cutting $12 million from the budget.

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Comment: KC-46 aerial tanker’s supply chain a showcase for state

State and federal lawmakers must continue to support this and other locally based aerospace programs.

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Comment: States take note; courts expand school choice options

State and federal court decisions have ruled funding options for private schools as constitutional.

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Comment: It’s their loss if candidates ignore younger voters

Gen Z and Millennial voters will go to the polls when candidates speak to the issues key to…

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Comment: Walz the regular guy Harris needs on campaign trail

Known for dubbing Trump as “weird,” Walz is deft at defending progressive ideas to Middle America.

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Comment: Harris’ bid for Calif. AG showed she knows how to run

She’s absorbed attacks from the right before and learned to allow opponents room to trip themselves.

Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, points out Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) during a campaign rally in Atlanta on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Harris’s ascent has delivering an electric shock to a listless Democratic Party that for more than a year struggled to mobilize its base behind President Joe Biden. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)

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Comment: Harris can use her joy against Republican mockery

The vice president, as other Black women have, finds dignity and reclamation through elation.

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Comment: A new path is needed after another forest falls

A development in Silver Lake is moving forward, but the fight for a better future will go on.

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Comment: Protect a benefit many will need as they age

Voting against I-2124 will keep a long term care benefit that many, especially women, are counting on.

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Comment: Inmate in dark why seizure medication dosage was cut

Incarcerated at Monroe, a man says his seizures resumed after his dosage was halved with no explanation.

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Comment: Repeat after me, GOP; it’s pronounced ‘Comma-luh’

Republicans still haven’t learned that belittling a Black woman falls flat with a lot of voters.

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Comment: Climate change’s impacts not future’s worry; it’s today’s

The insufferable and disastrous heat that we thought would be our grandkid’s problem is already here.

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Comments: Guns arn’t as useful for self-defense as thought

Studies show how little they play in protecting lives and actually increase the likelihood of carnage.

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Comment: Trump, Big Oil lying about EVs to serve own interests

Gas guzzlers aren’t being banned, but the GOP and oil industry still are threatened by electric incentives.

Swimmers in the Seine to join a swim by Parisian Mayor Anne Hidalgo and Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris Olympics committee, to prove the river’s worth for swimming events, in Paris, July 17, 2024. The heart of Paris has fallen silent in preparation for the Olympics opening ceremony on Friday, when a flotilla will usher thousands of athletes down the River Seine. (James Hill/The New York Times)

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Comment: Faster, higher, stronger and less carbon-intensive

The Paris Olympics have focused on sustainability as a showcase for actions in a warming climate.

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Eco-Nomics: Vote as if your home and your planet depend on it

If you want to take meaningful action to fight climate change, vote for those who share your concerns.

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Comment: What remains to build more affordable housing in county

Helpful legislation is now law, but cities and counties have changes they must make to ease the crisis.

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Comment: College athletes need reforms on NIL rules

Washington’s Sen. Cantwell can help protect the rights of student-athletes in all sports for men and women.

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Comment: Harris, for the prosecution, pursues a predator

The former prosecutor, better than Biden had, is prepared to show voters who Trump really is.