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Booster journalism
“WE WANTED TO reconnect with our community. “So we decided to reach out and touch someone. “That’s what…
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Eight Is Enough
As reclusive murk dwellers go, 20-foot-long bluntnose six-gill sharks are impressive critters—impressive enough to make local TV go…
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Eyman’s reprieves
DON’T TELL ME about the pit bull press. As watchdogs go, we’re a snaggle-toothed, knock-kneed old hound that…
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Ask the smart pig
Don’t count the cross-Cascade fuel pipeline out just yet. Officials of the Olympic Pipe Line Company, which runs…
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Whales and moans
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic,” said Stalin, who understood such things…
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Homeland insecurity
YOU HAVE TO wonder if the anthrax attacks are the work of homegrown far-right wackos rather than bin…
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Gassed out
You’ve probably received a plug for this latest bit of e-mail rabble-rousing by now; four weeks before the…
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A political circus
Seattle gets set to ban performing animals while Ringling Bros. tries to show a kinder, gentler circus.
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Riot reruns
What a week, again. On Monday, Port Commission President Pat Davis received the World Affairs Councils “1999 World…
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High school haze
Yeah, yeah, I know, the last thing you want to hear is any more chin stroking about the…
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AIDS charity: Patient search
THE GOOD NEWS: Thanks to safer sex, needle exchanges, and new drug therapies (not to mention death), the…
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See you at the dohyo, eh?
The boys of sumo descend on Vancouver, in a hokey, glorious cross-cultural match.
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Proper Victorians
For nigh on three decades, picturesque Victoria, BC, and its neighbors in the Capital Regional District have been…
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Maine malaise
LIKE THE BLETHENS, the Scigliano clan cherishes its Maine connection. The difference is, we gather at the Penobscot…
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Whale Madness
And you thought tuna and swordfish were toxic mercury bombs? Next time in Tokyo, avoid the whale and…
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Annus horribilis
WE DIDN’T REALIZE it then, but when I last embarked on a column like this—on media, politics, popular…
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Fannie raid
The Seattle Times‘ new mantra is . . . “It’s in the P-I.” The talent, that is. Just…