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The alarm is ringing for welfare recipients.

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Welfare clock ticks

Will people on welfare actually be kicked off?

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Travel Issue: Pain in the neck

Under apartheid, a white traveler might share a 'black bus.' But the ambulance was another story.

Carl Mack: recharging the Seattle chapter of the NAACP.

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Best Agitator

PEOPLE, POLITICS, & MEDIA

Novelist Tom Robbins: "America is a young country and it has been exhibiting all the characteristics of an adolescent bully."

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War or Peace?

Local notables take their stands.

Pam Roach

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Lucky 13

A race filled with colorful characters will determine the future of King County government.

Draining Times

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Draining Times

After the strike, many top reporters have left The Seattle Times.

What would United Farm Workers legend Cesar Chavez think?

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Fertile Common Ground

Farmworkers and growers are uniting against a common foe: price pressure.

Softening Slade

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Softening Slade

Is Senator Slade Gorton's interest in education and the environment more than election-year politics?

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Reexamining El Centro

A series of crises has the nonprofit's charismatic director circling the wagons.

Velma Stewart is sick of walking through mud.

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Mean streets

South Seattle confronts the baffling politics of sidewalks.

School board candidate Brita Butler-Wall: grouchy Coke lady.

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School Board Follies

Its unpaid members endure derision at meetings, take heat for not foreseeing a crippling fiscal scandal, and have…

Jeff Henderson: "Our understanding back then was that it was kind of a gay thing."

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The new faces of AIDS

Disproportionately infected, blacks confront the reality that it's no longer a white, gay disease.

Maria Gutierrez and daughter Rainier Ceili Naylor: She and other parents are considering "fright flight."

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They Choose or We Lose

Parents are panicking about proposals to change how students are assigned to public schools in Seattle. Could this…

The smoke clears- fast

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The smoke clears- fast

Talking turnaround with the editor of the first Sept. 11 book.

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Testing the Waters

Lawmakers rethink the importance of the WASL and opt for more study.

Dustin Washington stresses the radical history of the Society of Friends.

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Preaching revolution now

Quakers' activist arm speaks "truth to power" in the C.D.

Strikers ask: What happened to the Boeing family?

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The next generation

The bitter strike at Boeing underscores sweeping cultural changes at the company.

Former principal Ben Wright says he knows how to fix the Seattle School district.

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The Super Search

The next Seattle schools superintendent might be among these names.

From left, then–Vice President Al Gore with Dylan, Ian, and Christine Malone in 2000.

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Malpractice Assurance

A 4-year-old is dead, and the doctor who erred is still allowed to practice. No wonder liability insurance…

The Expensive Expansion of KEXP

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The Expensive Expansion of KEXP

It's globally popular and flush with donations, but Seattle's seminal eclectic-music radio station is under financial strain that…