boboh7

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81-yo retired engineer/computing manager, res: Bellevue, WA

Active since January 2009

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Super committee failure: Obama's absence hurt

Posted Wed, Nov 23, 12:26 a.m.

Wow! I'm aghast that it took all those many commenters before Susan finally came along to point out that Grover Norquist was the puppetmaster. Where has everyone else been? And Magellan, I agree with you too that big defense cuts and ending the Bush Tax Cuts is the very best ...

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Did Seattle 'lose' a space shuttle 25 years ago?

Posted Wed, Apr 13, 11:15 p.m.

I'm amazed no one has written about the fact that Boeing was called on by NASA to do the system management for the Apollo program after failures put it in serious doubt. At that time a contingent of 2000 Boeing engineering management employees under George Stoner was sent to Huntsville, ...

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House D's might 'securitize' to help state budget

Posted Mon, Mar 7, 9:43 p.m.

This Legislature had the solution for it's budget shortfall in two bills in committee and they were allowed to die there. HB1320 was one and I forget the other, but they were called the Washington Investment Trust bills. They would have allowed Washington State to emulate North Dakota, the only ...

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Oil-soaked oysters, contaminated salmon, 'radioactive' wine

Posted Wed, Sep 22, 1:52 a.m.

"The slightest leak, however remote the possibility, would compromise the state's image and stature as an agricultural breadbasket." Indeed? I have read artices published in The Seattle PI several years ago which reported a leaking plume of radioactive waste which was then known to be nearing the Columbia River. From ...

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Humor: Microsoft, in a bold stroke, solves 520 and Seattle Center problems

Posted Thu, Apr 1, 9:42 p.m.

Whata great prank! Here are some others perpetrated this year on an even grander scale: http://www.alternet.org/story/146268/the_three_greatest_pranks_of_2010

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Unsolved Northwest mysteries

Posted Tue, Mar 30, 2:21 p.m.

What a marvelous and fun way to earn a living and add to your readers' knowledge in the bargain! Congratulations Knute. BTW: I applaud your politics wholeheartedly.

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Publisher's Page: Thanks for helping in 2009

Posted Sat, Jan 2, 12:13 a.m.

I love Crosscut; I think you do a great job. I do wonder why the Town Hall calendar is not included. Would they have to pay to have it shown? What would you charge? Bob von Tobel

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Hearst may be remaking, not eliminating, The P-I

Posted Mon, Jan 12, 9:18 p.m.

Where will the hard-nosed investigative journalistic work be done?-Especially the foreign news bureaus we hope will give us true understandiung of wars world-wide?-And also the local matters like dishonesty in Port of Seattle management?-Without the P-I, Chicago Tribune, NYTimes, et al?

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