In this week's cover story on Seattle Public Utilities' "Joe Millionaire," Rick Anderson showed us how astoundingly simple stealing money from the government can be. As if to prove the point, the Wash...
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One week, two court decisions. Together, they illustrate contrasting attitudes toward the state's Public Records Act. And it all played out exactly how you'd expect after reading an accidentally relea...
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Where's the evidencer That's the question OneAmerica's Kendra Anderson says she and her co-workers would get in meetings with the Border Patrol when they raised allegations of racial profiling and oth...
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There was a foreclosure auction last month at a Hampton Inn in Burlington. On hand were pictures of the properties for sale, and documents to give the new owners. What made this auction remarkably unu...
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When the possible connection between the anti-malarial drug Lariam and the recent Afghan massacre hit the news, retired Lt. Col. Greg Alderete wasn't shocked. "Hey, we've been saying this for some tim...
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It turns out that Jay Inslee messed things up even more than originally thought when he resigned from Congress in order to campaign full-time for governor. Contrary to the impression left by reporting...
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Shortly after college student Tessie Goheen was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 20, she received a letter from her mother's health insurer,... More >>
Why is the military continuing to use the dangerous anti-malarial drug Lariamr That's the question former top military psychiatrist Elspeth Ritchie is asking in the wake of the Afghan massacre alleged...
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Even while the city prepared to announce SPD reforms prompted by the U.S. Department of Justice's scathing report, City Attorney Pete Holmes was prepping for possible litigation with the feds. As The ...
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When two bike cops created a list of Belltown's worst offenders last summer, it became an instant Rorschach test for the city. What shocked just about everyone, including officers who had been on the ...
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Shortly after Tessie Goheen was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 20, she received a letter from her mother's health insurer, which also covered the college student. If Goheen dropped out of school ...
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UPDATE: The Huffington Post revealed on Sunday that the Pentagon has launched an investigation into the military's use of the anti-malarial drug Lariam, whose possible connection with the Bales' massa...
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Health care activists are planning on marching to state Attorney General Rob McKenna's office this morning to demand that the Republican gubernatorial candidate "drop" the ObamaCare lawsuit that is no...
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, ever the master of marketing, says he's now trying to sell American capitalists on the idea of exercising their conscience. Judging by Wednesday's annual meeting, he's go...
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Walt Tamosaitis, the Hanford engineer turned whistleblower and one of the "toxic avengers" SW profiled last month, finally made it out of the basement dungeon to which his government contractor consig...
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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday debated whether juvenile murderers should be given a life sentence without the possibility of parole. It's a debate that affects not only the teenagers at the center ...
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Former Washington governor Gary Locke, now the U.S. Ambassador to China, upset the Beijing bureaucracy in January when he declared that human rights in his ancestral home seems to be in a "down perio...
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Oops! The City Attorney's office, which has been aggressively fighting public disclosure requests, accidentally disclosed way more than it should have about its own internal deliberations over litigat...
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Who is the real Ahmed Ressamr That is the baffling and fascinating question that once again emerges in light of this week's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling vacating the "millennial bomber's" 22-ye...
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It might not be a surprise that Jay Inslee felt like he needed to step down from his Congressional seat in order to focus on his gubernatorial campaign. Inslee has a savvy competitor in Attorney Gener...
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President Barack Obama's proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may be endangering the West Coast's ability to cope with the fallout from the Japanese tsunami headed our ...
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How could a credit card company have driver license informationr That's what I asked myself recently when I activated a new Discover card, and was asked to verify my identity by giving the height wri...
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