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My turn
Referendum 49 gave transportation interests first crack at the state's 601-created financial reserves. The question now is 'Who's…
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Manifest Secrecy
In a child-abuse case, the president of Seattle University is silent about supervisory conversations with the Jesuit defendant.
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Think you’ll be a working mom?
Making up your mind about day care is hard. Getting in is even harder.
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Does this Family Deserve Welfare?
Despite all the reforms, maybe Dolores Wilson should stay a welfare mom.
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The Safety Net Stays
Welfare's five-year limit is effectively over, but that's not what recipients are being told.
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More Midwife Strife
The state Health Department is investigating a controversial home-birth advocate—again.
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The glam campaign
Maria Cantwell's New Economy image may be overplayed, but it's taken her a long way.
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His Case Goes South
U.S.Immigration Judge Victoria Young said she found it “unfortunate” that someone who has lived here for virtually all…
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Company for the People
If Wal-Mart represents red-state America's ruthless race to the bottom line, then Issaquah-based retailer Costco offers a blue-state…
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Where Have All the Militias Gone?
A new book about a local militiaman comes out in a changed world.
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Let Freedom Ride
An unlikely road trip from Seattle to the East Coast is intended to put a human face on…
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NEGATIVE NUMBERS AT CHANNEL 9
Seattle's fiscally challenged public-television station has a new investor: an offshore bank.
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Borderline Effective
After an Arizona demonstration, 'minutemen' are coming to watch over the Washington-Canada border.
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Rhode warrior
Leader of some of apartheid's most elite and notorious army units training Washington's cops.
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Private money, public schools
The surprising facts about funding inequities in Seattle's schools.
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Election Test
The debate over high-stakes testing dominates this year's race for superintendent of public instruction.