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July 21, 2008: Headlines

Fixing our big flat tire

Posted Mon, Jul 21, 4 p.m.

Sound Transit, the Viaduct, 520, the Mercer Mess — everywhere you turn, there's a Puget Sound transportation problem awaiting solution. It's time for citizens to demand leadership from leaders and to push for reform of agencies and even government.

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Esprit de core competency

Posted Mon, Jul 21, 1 a.m.

If the government can exclude food and energy from the "core" inflation rate, there are plenty of other cores to be exploited.

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In Maine, banks are involved in Seattle Times Co. decisions

Posted Mon, Jul 21, midnight

To satisfy lenders, the company says, it will impose another round of cuts — the fourth in a year — at its Portland, Maine, newspaper.

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Praising, and then panning, Alaskan salmon

Posted Mon, Jul 21, midnight

A columnist writing in The New York Times boycotts wild Alaskan salmon, a 180-degree turn from an earlier position in favor of the fishery. Is his reversal motivated by the need to publicize a new book?

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