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Mouthful of power

Olympic Hotel hallway, downtown Seattle, November 1961: “Sometime after Kennedy was back,” Seymour Hersh writes in The Dark…

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Swept away

Oh, they were brilliant for sure, trying to burn down a tavern on Custer Way by running around…

Example of an electronic-ballot receipt.

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When It Doesn’t Add Up

While no one has documented a plot to manipulate results, voting systems deserve closer scrutiny.

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Hush Money

“I ALSO THOUGHT it possible my friend might want me dead,” Gerianne Silva writes. “I was so stressed,…

Death whiffs

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Death whiffs

High court strikes out on death penalty.

Charitable Confiscation

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Charitable Confiscation

Plans for the monorail complicate internal politics at nonprofit Northwest Center.

Attorney Doug Schafer says lawyers should be "guardians of the law."

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Whistle-blower’s trial

The lawyer who exposed the Cadillac judge faces the Supreme Court.

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Dead-End Jail

Deaths by suicide or other causes have increased in recent years at the King County Jail, but finding…

Murray found plenty of pork for Boeing.

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She loves pork

Patty Murray plays money politics like a pro, but who really benefits?

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A wing, a prayer, and a bailout

Boeing balances its books by going to the taxpayer well again—and selling us surplus fighters the military doesn't…

Tim O'Brian entitled his presentation "Long Painting and the City of Seattle, Partners in Crime?"

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Still stinky?

Raucous hearing about Long Painting shakes South Park.

He owns 90 land parcels, including some valuable undeveloped waterfront.

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“The courts are killing me”

Or is it the other way around? At age 80, Chris Demopolis sues on.

Yeah, that's it, that's the ticket. —Jon Lovitz, spokesman for 1999

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1999: Year of the Liar

Meet the people who helped make this the year of the whopper: Would you like lies with that?

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Prior to the official City Council rejection last week of the Seattle

Prior to the official City Council rejection last week of the Seattle School District’s mega headquarters plan, district…

These buildings' strength under pressure allowed thousands to escape.

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Delayed impact

A Seattle firm's work on the World Trade Center probably saved thousands of lives.

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The Track Is Clear

Like the third time, the fourth time was the charm, too, for the planned $1.6 billion monorail project,…

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Our Not-So-Finest

Disciplined cops: drunk, rude, sometimes just plain dumb.

Army Spc. Justin Hebert.

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The War Hits Home

As they laid Justin Hebert to rest, it was hard to square the death of the 20-year-old with…

Madame Washington in happier times.

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The Madam melts down

Rose's reign ends with jail time and the sale of her neighborhood brothel.

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Garages R Us

How many garages does the city have to give away?