Seattle is happy to make you fat
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 11 p.m.
When it comes to the war on obesity, this place is a merchant of death. Meanwhile, fat America – which is most of us – gets the blame.
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August 02, 2007: Headlines
Manager John McLaren hones his ballclub for a run at October
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 5 p.m.
Seattle Mariners general manager Bill Bavasi didn't do anything at the trade deadline, and that's a good thing. Meanwhile, the lineup is fine-tuned.
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Seattle columnist and longtime journalist Susan Paynter will retire
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 4 p.m.
She's spent 39 years at the Post-Intelligencer. In an e-mail to friends, she recaps her career.
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The multi-party transportation politics of metro Puget Sound
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 5 a.m.
Five factions are weighing in on the November ballot measure to fund light rail and highway improvements, and at this point the outcome is too close to call.
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Here are the real statistics, and they support light rail
Posted Thu, Aug 2, 5 a.m.
As a counterpoint to last week's article by Emory Bundy, here are some figures that suggest light rail is a better deal than claimed, environmentally and economically, and other modes of mass transit are not as good.
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