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Parks Critics’ Revenge
In late February, the furor over the Seattle Parks Department’s decision to allow One Reel to site its…
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Labor and the mayor cozy up
The WTO anniversary fiasco was bad enough, but a peculiar incident just before Thanksgiving gave us yet another…
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British invasion
An American reporter's investigative work looks like truth abroad but conspiracy theory here. What the hell's going on?
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Lost in America
EVERY NEWS DEPARTMENT gets besieged with press releases, promotional packets, and other, sometimes extraordinary gimmicks, all sent with…
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Over a Barrel
The days of cheap gas prices are gone forever. That doesn’t mean oil companies aren’t getting rich off…
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Torch songs
OLYMPIC MANIA is upon us. For a two-week period, people are gathering around their TV sets and rooting…
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Going Nowhere Fast
IF I READ OR WATCH or hear one more story about one or another message The Voters purportedly…
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Schoolkids for sale
Celina and Marcus went to Burger King for lunch. Celina ordered a Whopper with cheese, one order of…
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Too many balls
PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL is, like other major men’s pro team sports, virtually a taxpayer-subsidized entity, with shiny new stadiums…
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The dream that won’t die
Omari Tahir-Garrett wants an African-American Heritage Museum, wants it badly enough to struggle for it for 15 years.…
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Take a Stand for Trees
Back in mid-Clintontime, it was the fervent hope of liberals, appalled by welfare reform, botched health care, and…
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A Mom vs. Apple Pie
It’s the most remarkably effective political protest in memory. Three weeks ago, Cindy Sheehan was just another mourning…
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Paying Paul
ESPECIALLY GIVEN the tight budgetary times, it’s not too surprising that Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels’ sudden proposal for…
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Breeding terror
THERE’S NO QUESTION that the United States, and the rest of the world, needs to take forceful steps—not…
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The Buck Slides By Olchefske
ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I spent part of a column—in the context of the Seattle School District’s reported…
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Eyman Gets Good Lawyers
A COUPLE MONTHS ago, I was lunching with a Democratic state representative who shall remain nameless but who…
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Scandal mongering
IF IT WEREN’T for the fact that the past week’s headlines have been deadly serious, they’d be awfully…
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A Christmas Made in China
Ho, ho, ho, my ass. It’s not that I don’t want to be in the Christmas spirit. Quite…