It was a who done it, albeit not the ordinary kind. The suspects were wolves. The victim a calf. And although the murder hasn't been completely solved, justice is being served.The state Department of ...
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As Rick Anderson periodically reminds us, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has been called many things over the years, from shell shock to "irritable heart." Now, a Seattle-based retired general and for...
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week issued a stinging "case study" of the Seattle School Board, characterized by the report as churning and fractious. Yet the chamber's proposed solution to school...
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There's been a lot of fearmongering over the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed consent decree with the city over police reforms. The feds... More >>
Last week, the state Department of Financial Institutions issued a warning about crowdfunding--a way of raising money on the Internet that's already proved a boon for artists through popular Kickstart...
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This week, the King County Prosecutor's office dismissed charges against a photographer who had been arrested at the May Day protests. Prosecutors had charged 28-year-old Joshua Alex Garland, on assig...
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Yesterday, we quoted Cincinnati insiders, including Mayor Mark Mallory, about their experiences with police reforms brought by the Department of Justice. They poo poohed the idea that an outside monit...
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There's been a lot of fear-mongering over the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed consent decree with the city over police reforms. The feds reportedly want an outside monitor--a role Mayor Mike Mc...
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Last year, the legislature passed a bill requiring lenders on the verge of foreclosing to participate in mediation with homeowners. As sponsor Rep. Tina Orwall explained in a Real Change op-ed, the i...
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One accusation that got lost in the coverage of the Mike Sanford investigation surrounds the assistant chief's purported attempt to influence the sergeant's exam. That's likely because it was hard to...
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As the housing crisis wreaked havoc across the nation, Washington state for many years seemed in a protected bubble. The state ranked almost dead last nationwide in rates of foreclosures and mortgage ...
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The Washington State Patrol late yesterday released details of its investigation into Assistant Police Chief Mike Sanford. The King County Prosecutor's office had, by that time, cleared Sanford of cri...
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Less than a week after the Border Patrol was hit with a class-action lawsuit, the agency is facing a new challenge. Last week, the Northwest... More >>
Does the governor have the right to to shield documents from public view simply because she's the governorr That's a question the state Supreme Court late last month announced it would consider. The ...
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As two additional May Day arrestees appeared in court yesterday, and Seattle Weekly learned more about a third, it became increasingly evident that there is no one type of person who was involved in t...
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Former governor Gary Locke, now the U.S. ambassador to China, has put himself squarely in the middle of the controversy over blind dissident Chen Guangcheng. Press photos out of Beijing yesterday show...
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Less than a week after the Border Patrol was hit with a class action lawsuit, the agency is facing a new challenge. Yesterday, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a complaint with the federa...
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Marc Emery, British Columbia's so-called Prince of Pot, has endorsed marijuana legalization initiative I-502. In staking out his position, Emery sided with the man who put him in prison--former U.S. A...
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Three Olympic Peninsula residents filed a class action suit against the Border Patrol yesterday that promises to finally provide a formal airing for charges that agents are illegally stopping people b...
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Last fall, Washington Growers League executive director Mike Gempler got talking to a couple of Mexican brothers working on a farm in Naches, west of Yakima. Like many immigrants, the brothers were am...
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Bainbridge Island's anti-vaccine crusader, Michael Belkin, is getting attention for a new music video his "protest" band has posted on YouTube. A KOMO-TV report yesterday pronounced the video, which h...
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The watchdog group Common Cause laid out its case yesterday against the American Legislative Exchange Council, a non-profit whose advocacy for gun rights and other conservative causes has stirred cont...
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Starbucks' bid to make itself the moral leader of the business universe yesterday got a boost from PETA, which dubbed the coffee empire a "corporation with a conscience." Nope, the accolade wasn't ref...
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Over the past week, concerns about the anti-malarial Lariam--facing scrutiny after the Afghan massacre allegedly committed by a local solider--have gotten even more attention. Stories about the drug h...
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