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1998 Stories by Mark Worth

• Sitting there

  published December 23, 1998

  Like most of you, I watched, listened to, and read the coverage of John Stanford's death, the Aurora Bridge bus accident, and the Anacortes... More >>

• How it is

  published December 9, 1998

  In the month since the Weekly published the cover story "Who Really Runs Seattle?" (11/12) a... More >>

• Those Dole-full Nordstroms

  published December 9, 1998

  AS PUBLISHER OF Real Change, Tim Harris' mission historically has been creating jobs for homeless people and drawing public... More >>

• Stealth nonprofit

  published December 9, 1998

  AT A TIME WHEN low-income housing projects all over town are being gentrified into luxury apartments, trying to preserve a Belltown... More >>

• SHA-na-na

  published December 2, 1998

  IT'S BEEN A LONG, embarrassing year for the Seattle Housing Authority. Senior-citizen residents displeased with SHA management organized... More >>

• Gross generosity

  published November 25, 1998

  The next time you pick up Eat the State! or The Washington Free Press—if you're crafty enough to find a copy in this... More >>

• The
  C(ocaine)
  I(mportation)
  A(gency)

  published November 18, 1998

  If the only thing you know about the US Central Intelligence Agency is that a 1996 San Jose Mercury News report accusing the CIA... More >>

• The media and the establishment: one and the same?

  published November 11, 1998

  "JOURNALISTIC OBJECTIVITY" hadn't been adopted as a professional standard in 1913 when the anti-union and anti-leftist bluster appearing... More >>

• Who REALLY Runs Seattle?

  published November 11, 1998

  Institutions by their very nature place self-perpetuation above all else, and Seattle's institutions have been aided in this by much that... More >>

• Who You Already Know

  published November 11, 1998

  There are good reasons that you're familiar with—or at least should be familiar with—these 20 individuals and families. After years... More >>

• The media and the establishment: one and the same?

  published November 11, 1998

  "JOURNALISTIC OBJECTIVITY" hadn't been adopted as a professional standard in 1913 when the anti-union and anti-leftist bluster appearing... More >>

• The Ruckelshaus connection

  published November 11, 1998

  WILLIAM RUCKELSHAUS is probably best known for his role in the "Saturday Night Massacre." On October 20, 1973, Ruckelshaus quit his job... More >>

• Who You Should Get to Know

  published November 11, 1998

  Ask a dozen elected officials, public affairs consultants, or journalists to name 50 of Seattle's most influential and least widely known power... More >>

• Toadies, wannabes, and second bananas

  published November 11, 1998

  Face-to-face they're usually greeted with a smile, but behind their backs their names are often met with a wince. They fall into three... More >>

• Unequal opportunity

  published November 11, 1998

  SEATTLE'S CORPORATE establishment is acclaimed for its progressive employment practices, an ethic embodied by its virtually unanimous... More >>

• Public market

  published November 4, 1998

  Probably the most remarkable thing about a Seattle City Council resolution asking Pike Place Market managers to come up with a less... More >>

• Fluoridation: capitalist plot

  published October 28, 1998

  You have him to thank for empowering women to smoke cigarettes. And for helping Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover win the presidency. And for... More >>

• The 'Times' green ink

  published October 14, 1998

  Though it might not win a Pulitzer Prize, The Seattle Times' recent series on public-private land swaps represents investigative and... More >>

• Impeach the press

  published September 30, 1998

  I walked into work the other day to this challenge from my boss: "Name three good things that will come out of this." I knew just what she... More >>

• The Times' 'mission'

  published September 16, 1998

  Perhaps the first complaint filed with the Washington News Council—an organization formed last month by former Seattle Weekly... More >>

• Mark Cook:

  published September 9, 1998

  MORE THAN 22 YEARS after he shot a police officer while springing a fellow revolutionary from custody, Mark Cook—in some views,... More >>

• Going on a diet

  published September 2, 1998

  Back at my college newspaper a dozen or so years ago, I had an editor who liked to say (and to hear himself say), "When you bite into a story,... More >>

• Let Stanford live

  published August 19, 1998

  We have enough martyrs. The five Wobblies murdered by police during the 1916 Shingleweaver strike in Everett. The four firefighters who died in... More >>

• Counterflack

  published August 5, 1998

  Trained as they are in the art of "crisis management," several members of the local public relations community penned stern letters to the... More >>

• Vive indie film!

  published July 22, 1998

  With the Grand Illusion Cinema freshly remodeled and the historic University Theater slated for reopening, you film buffs out there have... More >>