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Hearing the call
What a great election for white, male fast-food-worker bookworms on chemo-therapy—and for Bill Clinton. And how d’ya like…
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Kelly’s world
I’VE HEARD MANY who revere Harper’s and The Atlantic from afar, and even a few folks who read…
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Rogue Who?
There’s a sick pleasure to watching President W, the poster child for crony capitalism and insider trading, prattle…
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Riot Junkies
Welcome to something not seen in these pages since the sun was shining and the days were long:…
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What did they think?
The transit workers who sued last week to overturn Initiative 695 won’t be the last to go to…
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Who’s Watching the Water?
What is the effect of the relationships between the Coast Guard's top brass and the shipping industry?
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The ships hit the fan
The 'New Carissa' crack-up and other near-disasters show why rescue tugs are needed, and why they might not…
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Train to nowhere
Here, at last, is one possible upside to the new football and baseball stadiums (a.k.a. Big Money Pit…
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Dems the Breaks
Washington's senators ponder the Democratic debacle, Bush's terror card, and—a Bill Clinton bridge to the future?
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A dimmer beacon
Amazon's new campus would look great—if it didn't hide Seattle's last great architectural icon.
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Bright night
HELL HATH NO FURY like a rugby player who fears being driven from the field by NIMBY complaints…
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Meta-media
NEWSPAPERS, newsmagazines, TV networks, cable news—everywhere you look, media-makers are beating themselves and their employees up over shrinking…
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Viagra on the Half Shell
Dreamers, schemers, and scientists try to catch and cultivate the Northwest's most potent icon.
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Scraping the bottom
Sam Wright says more endangered species time bombs are ticking in Puget Sound
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Slade slays ’em
What’s the world coming to when Slade Gorton gets bigger laughs than John Keister? That was just one…
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Childproof Seattle
Remember 15 years ago, when Mayor Charles Royer’s “KidsPlace” project was supposed to keep Seattle safe and congenial…
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Dome and Domer
First the Kingdome was supposed to come down as the quasi-millennial new year came in. But that plan…