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Tim Kerr: blown out of proportion.

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Track Record

The state treasurer fired a man who pledges to bring financial accountability to the Seattle monorail board. Should…

Don't Fork it up: Mark Boyar fights for the Snoqualmie River's Middle Fork.

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Mansion in the woods

King County struggles to zone the millionaires out of the forest.

Slumming for dollars

Arts & Culture

Slumming for dollars

A media insider samples how the other half works.

The Corbin Sparrow.

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Show Me the Green

Sure, we've got our famously crunchy environmentalist culture. But how do our actual car choices sit with Chief…

Julian Priester: Don't call me local.

Music

The Slide Priest

Seattle's obscure jazz giant steps into the spotlight.

More than a melody: Miller combines improv with a tight studio sound.

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Elevating bass

Marcus Miller takes jazz and funk to the next level.

Drawn Behind Bars

Arts & Culture

Drawn Behind Bars

Antjuan Oden used his art to survive prison; prosecutors used it to help send him there.

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Patently mine

The US Patent office has opened the door to all kinds of new patent claims. Microsoft and Amazon…

MLK's future?

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News Clips— Sound Transit wins one

ENGLISH-ONLY LAWS in Alabama. Sound Transit trains in the Rainier Valley. Legally they’ve ended up in the same…

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Score one for the Buddha

Neighbors of a proposed North Bend gravel mine, small victory in hand, still face a rocky struggle.

Windows is Part of the Problem

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Windows is Part of the Problem

In a world of worms like Mydoom, is Microsoft getting serious about spam? Yes and maybe.

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Working Wal-Mart

ATTENTION injured Wal-Mart workers: You will remain at the mercy of your employer a little longer. As reported…

Film

Concentration camp high jinx

Roberto Benigni takes on the Holocaust.

Pulp friction from T-Town: the hard-wearing Richlite countertop.

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THE NEXT STAINLESS STEEL

From tub to table lamp, what's the latest wave in Seattle interior design?

Samis' empty storefronts abound.

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News Clips— Samis vacant

COLOURBOX. THE RED WHITE & BLUE restaurant. Ruby Montana’s Pinto Pony. These are just a few of the…

From left: Hughes, Monaghan, Shoup, and Rea.

Music

Noise addicts

Fifteen years on, Seattle musicians still living the improv-able dream.

Online novelist Bonita Thompson

Arts & Culture

World Wide Word

Web publishing continues to transform frustrated writers into e-authors.

Sound Transit board members Ron Sims (left) and Paul Schell (right).

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Who’ll stop the train? …not these guys

Ten reasons light rail keeps on rolling.

Food first: First Hill lost its grocery store.

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Hole in the Hill

Local grocery falls to luxury apartment tower, but nothing rises in its place.

Bezos seeks pesos: He got a $40 million package of "incentives" to locate a plant in Henry County, outside Atlanta; last week, Amazon shut the plant down.

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Aging Amazon

The New Economy turns out to be a lot like the old one.