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Last week, a new billboard went up across the street from the Washington State Convention Center. On it,…
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Defending my life
"So now I'm told that while my illness was recently described as terminal, I can, perhaps, be saved.…
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Hard cell
I had a terrifying dream the other night: A great, unseen power operated an amusement park. Those who…
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Queer unions
Pride At Work, a gay labor organization, holds its national convention in Everett.
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A junkie’s confession
SOMETIMES, even with a national story, I can know with certainty that public figures or media reports are…
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In Singapore the trains got built on time
I was surprised the other day to hear an election commercial on the radio for something that’s not…
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Report From Indonesia
Margaret Larson spent 25 years in local and national television news, including working as a domestic and foreign…
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The phantom anarchists
A number of revelations have cast a disturbing shadow over both the steelworkers’ cancellation of the Kaiser aluminum…
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The politics of pot
Industrial hemp is a cash crop that can be used in a stunning number of ways—fiber, paper, building…
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Schell’s petty revenge
The puffed-up threats from Mayor Schell and the Seattle Police Department to heavily arm the cops and arrest…
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Scrap this cabinet
While pundits thrashed about desperately during Election 2000 to inflate microscopic differences between Gore and Bush, one of…
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Merging Traffic
The biggest surprise of a not-very- surprising election this year was the voters’ rejection of Initiative 912, leaving…
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Test parents now
SUDDENLY, SOMEHOW, the geniuses who emerge every couple of years to tell us (for a fee) how to…
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Georgetown Garbage War
Once again, residents of an aggrieved Seattle neighborhood are facing off against a city bureaucracy.
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The Constitutional Crises of 2006
In 2005’s waning days, Washington, D.C., Beltway developments pointed to 2006 as a pivotal year for American democracy.…
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Dogging the city
A few months ago, members of my household came home with a dog from the shelter. Little did…
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Blowing the Lid Off
LIKE A SOLID MAJORITY of the Puget Sound area’s residents, I wasn’t born and raised here. As such,…