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Mutt putt - Breaking golf's final barrier.

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A bridge too far

Toll phobia and rural preservation block a cleaner, cheaper way to operate highways.

Overcooked

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Overcooked

Global warming? What global warming? Finally a best seller to support Dubya's environmental agenda.

The SeaRiver Long Beach in Port Angeles.

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Ship Out of Shape

A patched-up oil tanker piques local fears.

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Nine more to go

So, Seattle’s usual February sunshine has finally arrived—in March. And we can finally bid adieu to the season…

Jackson away from his typewriter.

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Tin Ears and Golden Oscars

No matter how many of its 11 nominations ROTK converts into statuary on Sunday night, here's one it…

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Sparrows and supertramps

I’VE SEEN RAIDERS CAPS in Vietnam and bootlegged Michael Jackson tapes in rural Cambodia. In Brazil, I tried…

Slow burns and fast

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Slow burns and fast

IT WAS DɊ VU all over again last month, when another dock full of boats got sent to…

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Dialing for Doom

An appraisal of the hazards of driving while phoning.

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Riot journal

The cops replace the WTO as the target of protesters' fear and anger in the last battle in…

A bridge too near

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A bridge too near

NEGLECTING MOTHER Nature at the start just costs you more later on. That’s what Dubya’s fiercest opponents and…

Told ya so

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Told ya so

Three hundred and sixty-four days ago, this column invited readers to predict the grand, glorious, ignominious events of…

Amnesia cycle

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Amnesia cycle

WHAT’S LOFTILY called “the national conversation” is more like a simmering pot of soup. Weighty matters and nutritious…

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They love mornings

It would be nice to be able to say, “Told you so.” But in all the reams that…

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The Pits

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

Arts & Culture

Books Quarterly: God Damn the Pusher Man

And God bless the patron saint of America's only sane drug policy: Dick Nixon.

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Wonder boat

While the state, feds, and shippers wrestle over how to prevent an oil-spill catastrophe, a stopgap "windfall" solution…

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Station break

In the usual way when big corporations swap and shuffle their little divisions, the people who operate KCMU-FM,…

Hung out and hanging in

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Hung out and hanging in

SIX MONTHS AFTER The Seattle Times settled with the Newspaper Guild, the lawsuits, grievances, and bad blood keep…

Gene Mullins: a software solution.

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Trading Places

It's a homegrown, low-cost alternative to commuting via highways and transit. Just add software.