The suburbs are the new Seattle
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You've heard the rhetoric about how White Center is the new Ballard, or Burien is the new Brooklyn. Now consider how Seattleized our suburbs have become.
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January 16, 2008: Headlines
Is the partisan party finally over?
Posted Wed, Jan 16, 10 p.m.
Angus King, former independent governor of Maine, was among 17 prominent politicians who met recently to seek solutions to the partisan acrimony that has so poisoned national affairs. Crosscut talked with him during a recent Seattle visit about independent politics, bipartisanship, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's possible candidacy for president.
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Washington caucuses: Obama's magic rubs off in Ballard
Posted Wed, Jan 16, 5 a.m.
First of a series: Former cynics find each other in a living room where inspiration and perspiration meet. Their charge is to get out the vote, one doorbell at a time.
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