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Bound to impound
It’s not illegal to be poor in Seattle. Well, actually, yes, it is. Sometimes. The impound law that,…
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WTO 101
The WTO is coming! The WTO is coming! Get ready for traffic jams, the “protest of the century,”…
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Cedar County vs. City Slickers
Mind if I take two-thirds of your property? I thought so. Which explains why rural King County landowners…
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Death to the highest bidder
The Clinton Administration has gone to amazing lengths to subsidize US exports with taxpayer money. No industry has…
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Waiting for the Bullet
LATE LAST WEEK, the D.C. advocacy group Center for Public Integrity (CPI) published a leaked copy of a…
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At Sea Without a Paddle
Glen Milner doesn’t look like a terrorist. The soft-spoken, 54-year-old electrician is a longtime peace activist who, in…
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No more taxes!
This state is ripe for a tax revolt. Washington boasts one of the most regressive tax systems in…
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There’s a War On
They came back, again. Party on, dude. Rock and roll. Don’t the Blue Angels know there’s a war…
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No Candidate Left Behind?
The presidential debates are in full swing. After the opener Thursday, Sept. 30, there are to be two…
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Trenches to troughs
IN THE HEROIC iconography of America’s good wars, our government asked its soldiers to fight in trenches, and…
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Prime-time crime
WHAT ABOUT the victims? In story after story on TV and in print, Catholic Church sex “scandal” expos鳠…
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The Alternative War
In 2003, Dahr Jamail, 36, left his comfortable existence as a mountain guide and freelance writer in Anchorage…
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Cop walks; activists talk
MANY OF THE leading local lights of the 1999 protests against the WTO quietly held a public reunion…
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Today’s Domino Theory
Years ago, as cold warriors went about justifying America’s war in Southeast Asia, a common train of logic…
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Gay Marriage Battleground
Washington will be the next big battleground for gay marriage. It was here and gone, one day’s newspaper…
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Back in hiding
TWO YEARS AGO, the tremendous triumph of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Seattle protesters—beyond igniting a global movement—was…
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A diversionary tactic
Rarely has an idea moved so quickly from the political loony lands to received truth. Two months ago,…