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    February 25, 2009

    State Law Kept Runaway Sex Offender on the Streets

    As I write in this week's issue, many former prisoners become homeless because they have no place to go, raising concerns both about their welfare and the public's. It turns out, though, that there was a place for one notorious sex offender to go. It's just that a bizarre state law didn't allow it.

  • News

    February 25, 2009

    Sentenced to the Street

    A new effort seeks to stop Washington’s prison system from releasing inmates into homelessness.

  • News

    February 16, 2005

    Business, The Police, Media

    A new effort seeks to stop Washington’s prison system from releasing inmates into homelessness.

  • News

    August 25, 2004

    The New Abolitionists

    Freeing 'sex slaves' is now at the top of the human rights agenda, thanks to Christian evangelicals, the Bush administration, and two former Washington politicians, Linda Smith and John Miller. How did the anti-trafficking crusade evolve, and is it being overhyped?

  • News

    March 24, 2004

    Disinterest in Conflict

    The AG's office says it was never asked to vet the governor's use of a Boeing consultant in the bid to win Boeing's favor.

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    The State's Two-Timing Consultant

    Taxpayers paid Deloitte Consulting $715,000 to help woo Boeing—which just happens to be a $5 million Deloitte client.

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    $64 Billion Falls Through the Tax Cracks

    That $3.2 billion bribe to keep Boeing here is merely the biggest of hundreds of tax exemptions for Washington businesses.

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    Waiting for medical marijuana

    The antidrug mafia makes sure Washington state keeps off the grass.

  • News

    December 9, 1998

    Stealth nonprofit

    For those fighting gentrification downtown, enemies sometimes come disguised as friends.

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