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Steilacoom

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Dangerous Times For Puget Sound Sea Lions; Rash of Killings Prompts Reward Offer

    ​NOAA investigators are mystified as to why eight California sea lions -- seven of them with bullet fragments in their carcass -- have washed up on south Puget Sound shores since Dec. 1. "This is quite unusual, and we don't know what's happening -- and we want to know," NOAA Fisheries Brian Go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Richard Mitchell Hit Piece, Funded by Republicans, is a Crude Caricature--of the GOP

    ​Last week, the state Republican party sent out a mailer attacking King County Council candidate Richard Mitchell (pictured at right) for his role in seeking clemency for Barry Massey. It's an attack that sells Republicans short.

  • News

    September 21, 2011

    Afghanistan 2001-2011

    ​Last week, the state Republican party sent out a mailer attacking King County Council candidate Richard Mitchell (pictured at right) for his role in seeking clemency for Barry Massey. It's an attack that sells Republicans short.

  • News

    September 21, 2011

    Iraq 2003-2006

    ​Last week, the state Republican party sent out a mailer attacking King County Council candidate Richard Mitchell (pictured at right) for his role in seeking clemency for Barry Massey. It's an attack that sells Republicans short.

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2011

    John Shalikashvili Spoke John Wayne English and Campaigned to End 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

    Shali, 75​It is remarkable enough to have been the first foreign-born soldier to become a four-star General in the U.S. Army. But John Shalikashvili, the pride of Steilacoom who died at age 75 last week following a stroke, was also the draftee who became the military's highest-ranking officer ... More >>

  • News

    January 26, 2011

    Lawrence Williams: No Romeo

    McNeil Island's most eligible predator and the women whose lives he ruined.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Governor Gregoire's Former Chief Counsel Now Seeks Clemency for Barry Massey, The Man Gregoire Turned Down

    Courtesy of Massey's Facebook pageBarry married his former prison guard, Rhonda Massey, last June.​Barry Massey, sentenced to life in prison for a crime he committed at age 13, was scheduled for a clemency hearing next week. But the man who in 1988 became the youngest person in this country ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Dead on the 4th of July

    "They killed my son, Aaron!" an anguished David Masters Twittered on Independence Day, leading to worldwide condolences over the death of his stepson, Pvt. Aaron Fairbairn, 20, of Aberdeen (left). He and a fellow soldier were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber drove an explosives-filled truck th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Grave Markers for Western's Dead

    Writing about Western State Hospital last week, we mentioned that "Untold mistakes and mysteries are buried there," referring to the mental institution's overgrown graveyard. The mysteries - how, exactly, some patients died in the past - will remain interred, but at least some of the names are being ... More >>

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Gov. Gregoire: One Tough Clemency Judge

    For inmates who've truly changed their lives, how long a sentence is enough?

  • News

    February 8, 2006

    Always a Crisis, Never a Solution

    Again, state cuts threaten King County services for indigent mentally ill people.

  • News

    April 20, 2005

    Our Toll Reaches 100

    That's the total of soldiers with Washington state connections killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • Food

    April 13, 2005

    Beer in Washington State: Some Highs and Lows

    That's the total of soldiers with Washington state connections killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

  • News

    March 16, 2005

    Mental-Patient Lawsuit Settled

    To end litigation by Pierce County over premature discharges by Western State Hospital, the state has agreed to pay $2.5 million per year.

  • News

    December 22, 2004

    Mindful Reform

    It's time for lawmakers to reconsider how we treat and care for the mentally ill.

  • News

    December 15, 2004

    Ending an Indian War

    After 150 years, the last 'shot' results in a verdict we can live with.

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    No Exit

    At Western State Hospital, a hundred patients are in mental health purgatory. They should be freed, but the bureaucracy won't budge.

  • News

    May 5, 2004

    Give Them Shelter

    This is insane. Already in crisis, public services for the mentally ill will get slashed again at year's end. The toll in King County alone will be another 2,000 low-income patients left without services or treatment.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2006

    Washington's toll in Iraq in 2006.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2005

    Washington's toll in Iraq in 2005.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2003

    Washington's toll in Iraq in 2003.

  • News

    December 17, 2003

    Facing Our Losses - Afghanistan

    Washington's toll in Afghanistan and elsewhere in the War on Terror.

  • News

    October 1, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Kids with rocks and spray paint on summer break, chants and posters, and suicide as street theater are not going to bring down the WTO.

  • Diversions

    July 31, 2002

    Outdoorsman

    Bugs Bite

  • Arts

    October 3, 2001

    Outward bound

    Cycle of pain

  • News

    January 3, 2001

    When The Seattle Times decided that employing a cranky thief was more

    Cycle of pain

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    Blooming hell

    Thanks to runaway development, toxic algae is killing local lakes again. Here's one way to stop it.

  • News

    October 13, 1999

    Western State

    The hospital that needs reviving

  • News

    May 19, 1999

    Ill winds at Western

    Staff assaults are the latest black eye for the troubled mental institution.

  • News

    April 14, 1999

    The Pits

    Maury Island has the gravel Sea-Tac's runway needs. It also has arsenic-laden soil, a vulnerable aquifer, and some very worried islanders.

  • News

    January 27, 1999

    Angel of Death

    A year ago, bucolic Port Angeles was rocked by the death of 3-day-old Conor McInnerney. Now one emergency-room doctor is on trial for his murder, and the supervising ER doctor is in a mental hospital.

  • News

    December 23, 1998

    Cruel and Unusual Therapy

    Chronic neglect and abuse of the mentally ill continues at Western State Hospital.

  • News

    October 28, 1998

    Mouthful of power

    Chronic neglect and abuse of the mentally ill continues at Western State Hospital.

  • News

    September 30, 1998

    Swept away

    Chronic neglect and abuse of the mentally ill continues at Western State Hospital.

  • Arts

    January 21, 1998

    Clean Slade

    Chronic neglect and abuse of the mentally ill continues at Western State Hospital.

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