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Get the Schell out
The spirit of the magical nonviolent protest that infused WTO week will go back to cities and towns…
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Retraction Distraction
It might be the most insincere “retraction” in the history of modern journalism. Newsweek had little choice but…
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WTO reservations
I felt bad about coming down so harshly on Patty Murray a couple of weeks ago in this…
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2005 Media Follies!
Welcome to my 10th year of selecting the year’s most overhyped and underreported stories. There’s plenty to unravel:…
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Media follies
EVERY YEAR, I survey some of the year’s most overhyped and underreported stories, and every year, they seemingly…
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The Gary Locke vision thing
Last fall, the state Democratic Party rallied its faithful behind the beneficent gaze of the Most Honorable and…
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A March Off Capitol Hill
Charlette Lefevre does not mince words: “The pride march has been stolen. It’s been quietly stolen.” The target…
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Why vote?
Well, another primary has come and gone, with what is expected to be another near-record-low off-year turnout. In…
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The Imperial Patty
For a glimpse into the workings of the imperial mind, one could hardly do better than the headline…
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Getting Out When the Going Is Good
Why I sold my house and am happy to be renting again. Seriously.
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Left Plays to Win
Last week, in a Labor Temple hall that’s seen more than its share of abortive coalitions over the…
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Christmas on the line
Not much has been made (yet) of local organized labor’s resurgence in the last year. But on the…
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The war at home
APPARENTLY, if terrorists crash a jetliner into the Columbia Tower or Space Needle and kill thousands, we just…
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WTO 102
Last week I began a two-part look at why critics are protesting the policies and at times the…
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Brian Emanuels, A Brick in the Wall
I’M FRESHLY BACK home after an unexpected cross-country trip with long stretches of road in which the only…
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Franchise players
Last week, the Seattle City Council did something right. As sponsor Jim Compton put it, “This is the…