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The South Seattle Neighborhood That Sound Transit Forgot
The on-again, off-again history of the Graham Street light-rail station and the people who are still fighting for…
Eric Scigliano
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Seattle in the ’80s: Big Tech and Boomtown Economics Arrive
An influx of talent and trouble quickly brings Seattle up to speed.
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Making baby elephants
It took a lot more than a stork to bring Hansa. Now that she's turning 1, was it…
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Time after time
ANOTHER YEAR, another wallow in journalistic retrospection. Sure as bowl games and supersales follow the holidays, so does…
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Bushron and Brazil
GREETINGS FROM—or should that be to?—the heartland of crony capitalism. Northeast Brazil, whence the editors have graciously let…
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Burn the Forest for the Trees
It's time for Smokey Bear to retire, for the good of the woods. But Forest Service momentum and…
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Liberators Wanted
Forgotten hot spots: Where are those CIA agents and Marines when you need 'em?
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Tankers, ho!
IF YOU LIKED the logic by which the Supreme Court blocked the Florida recount and selected Bush as…
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War stories
AFTER THE PLANES hit the towers, you couldn’t buy a New York Times in my neighborhood; even with…
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Steal this plate
Why is Washington state like a state prison? Because it’s a cheap source of license plates. That at…
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Trash Tibet
Whatever possessed the editors of the Post-Intelligencer to devote nearly half their November 3 op-ed page to a…
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Chevron’s switch
Out on the desert sands (the sands of Eastern Washington, that is), a hard-fought petro-political intrigue is unfolding.…
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Puget Sound’s Rustbuckets
Nearly half the oil tankers plying Washington waters would be banned from Europe for being too old.
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Dumb and younger
ONE MEDIA CRITIC, Liz Swasey, won’t cry if and when Disney/ABC drops Nightline for Late Night With David…
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Thanks, media
NO KIDDING: I was going to write a Thanksgiving column this week, celebrating all that the mass media…
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Train to nowhere
It takes a train to cry, and to provoke an uprising wherever you try to run it. Five…
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Tricks of the trade
Sounds like such a deal. Next week the Seattle-based International Trade Education Foundation kicks off “an intensive, two-week…
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Pyshed off
On the way out to Neah Bay to witness the unwinding of the Makah whale hunt and the…