Ballard Bart

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Dino vs. Didier: closer than you might think

Posted Mon, Jul 26, 12:51 p.m.

I am a big fan of the top two primary, but I wonder if there are any alternative or progressive Democrats in the race to give normally Democratic voters an incentive to vote for Patty Murray in August? if there's no real danger of Murray falling to third (and I ...

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Dense, denser, densest

Posted Wed, Aug 26, 11:48 a.m.

Knute said: That means roughly 60,000 people moved into central Puget Sound's biggest cities in 2000-08. But it also means that over 300,000 others new to King, Pierce and Snohomish counties chose to live outside those urban cores and dispersed across the countryside to places like Snoqualmie and DuPont. I ...

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Seattle's high-water mark?

Posted Thu, Aug 20, 1:06 p.m.

This article prompted me to think twice about my earlier beliefs about Seattle and the Olympic games. The premise of rejecting the games was that we'd have more resources to build and maintain our existing infrastructure. How's that working for us? I'd have to say, not as well as we ...

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Washington caucuses: Casting about for Obama

Posted Mon, Feb 11, 4:18 p.m.

RE: Wishful thinking about Obama: Um, hello, Hillary Clinton did NOT repeat NOT read the full, classified NIE that led to the 2002 authorization vote. She has repeated stated that she was "fully briefed" on the document whatever that means, without ever identifying who it was that briefed her. As ...

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