From the Heathcliff Slocumb catastrophe to the regrettable departure of Ken Griffey Jr., the Mariners have made some monumentally awful trades over the years. But the worst move, according to Jon Well...
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Norm Stamper, the former SPD chief turned outspoken critic of the war on drugs, says claims from the opponents of Washington's initiative to legalize marijuana about federal preemption and rampant DUI...
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Drilling for oil and natural gas in southeast Asia is lucrative business, especially if an investor pumps $10 million cash into your company and you don't actually do any drilling.Such was the case wi...
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The Watering Hole: Urban Family Public House, 5329 Ballard Ave NW, 783-2337.
The Atmosphere:It's awful blustery on the first day of spring, and not another soul aside from the bartender has sought re...
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Pete Brook recently moved from Seattle to Portland, but he took an extraordinarily circuitous route: he traveled across the country and back again, interviewing nearly 70 photographers and prison refo...
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The arena was packed, the pep band blaring, the fans screaming, and the players competing like a trip to the Final Four was on the line. In reality, the only thing riding on the outcome of the game wa...
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Updated Thursday at 10:32 a.m. with additional analysis of the arrest spike in Nevada.
After Nevada enacted a strict "per se" law restricting the amount of THC motorists are allowed to have in their ...
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Not Invited to the Tournament. That's not actually what NIT stands for, but it might as well be for the UW hoops squad. They suffered the ignominy of being the first Pac-10/12 regular season champion ...
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The Washington Huskies did not score a date to Big Dance this year. The Pac-12 regular season champs had their bubble burst by the selection committee, which chose the likes of Iona, BYU, and even con...
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The Pac-10/12 regular season champion has never been excluded from the NCAA tournament, but after losing their last two games, the Huskies could set a precedent. Here's an overview of why UW should --...
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The Watering Hole:Macleod's Scottish Pub, 5200 Ballard Ave NW, 687-7115, BALLARD
The Atmosphere:This prime spot on the corner of 20th and Ballard Ave used to house Harlow's Saloon, but the "pre-fab d...
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"I'm innocent, but you can prove me guilty." That is essentially what Venoy Overton said Monday when he entered a so-called "Alford Plea" in response to charges that he coerced his 18-year-old girlfri...
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Do you love the Mariners, and have a spacious man-caver Looking to trade your couch for a less comfortable but infinitely more kick-ass seating arrangementr Have a few thousand extra dollars burning a...
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Few things are more unnerving than the sight of red and blue lights flashing in the rear-view mirror, particularly for a paranoid pot smoker. Here are a few pro-tips to survive such a situation.Our f...
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Our feature story this week examines the unusual controversy surrounding I-502, the ballot initiative that proposes legalizing, selling and taxing marijuana in Washington. The measure would also estab...
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Earlier this week, Sports Illustrated published an expose about UCLA basketball under head coach Ben Howland. Pulitzer-winning reporter George Dohrmann rakes some serious muck, detailing rampant drink...
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The fallout from the bombshell dropped last fall at Madigan Army Medical Center continues. Now, months after the hospital's forensic psychology team urged the facility's doctors to be cautious in diag...
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The Rev. DeMaris Strohm-Hughes believes that weed is a holy sacrament. She also thinks medical marijuana users ought to have a place where they can go out to a nice meal and smoke a bowl at the same t...
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When city leaders decried the recent violent crime surge in a press conference yesterday, they laid some of the blame on youngsters for the bloodshed. But the most recent pair of homicides, a double-m...
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Weed is still technically illegal in Seattle, so most stoners try at least a little bit to keep their habit on the down low. This can be especially tricky business at concerts, since it's against the ...
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For the vast majority of American eaters, the word "ramen" implies a pale brick of instant noodles wrapped in plastic, and packaged with a silver packet of salty beef, chicken, or shrimp bouillon. It ...
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