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Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.
The foundation builds strong relationships with each community so that gifts will leverage the community's strengths. Working with Native American groups highlights the importance of a sense of reciprocity.
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Posted Mon, Nov 7, 8:48 a.m.
Activists cheered the prospect of Washington's first majority-minority congressional district. Then they noticed what redistricting would do to South Seattle's legislative delegation.
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Posted Wed, Oct 26, 2 a.m.
The eccentric West through the eyes of Seattle's British expat author is a landscape of strange customs, forlorn towns, and back roads. His mantra: "To be alone is to be safe."
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Posted Mon, Sep 26, 2 a.m.
Fisheries scientists around the world are divided about whether enough is being done to protect the health and sustainability of global fish populations; inequitable national regulations only confuse the matter. Experts debate whether we should haul in our nets and call it a day.
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Posted Fri, Sep 23, 2 a.m.
At Seattle Art Museum, a piece with peculiar power hangs in a Northwest Native art display case. A tour with a curator helps our writer learn why this object, more than all others, speaks to him, fully alive, across the cultures.
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Posted Thu, Jun 30, 11:51 a.m.
A new organization, led by an experienced city leader, hopes to bring about comprehensive change in education of struggling students. The keys are aligned agendas and funding, as well as a data-driven focus on going to college.
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Posted Mon, Apr 18, 11:30 a.m.
"The Silence," which airs on KCTS 9 at 9 p.m. on Tuesday (April 19), tells a powerful story of the suffering and recovery of an Alaska village where 80 percent of the children were abused by the clergy.
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Posted Tue, Dec 21, 2 a.m.
Gov. Gregoire cancels $10 million in heritage capital grants, impacting restoration projects statewide. Seattle is especially hard hit.
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Posted Mon, Nov 15, 2 a.m.
Not yet. The world still likes real-world expos, and two nearby regions, the Silicon Valley (with Arnold Schwarzenegger leading the way), and Edmonton, Alberta, are hoping to host a world's fair by 2020.
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Posted Fri, Oct 22, 7:25 a.m.
A local writer who hails from The Netherlands finds that, in some ways, bicycling in Seattle has advantages over her native land. And the rainy weather is similar.
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Posted Sat, Sep 18, 6 a.m.
In an era when we are rediscovering the values of urban life, the old is new again.
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Posted Fri, Sep 17, 2 a.m.
We live in a beautiful place surrounded by gorgeous parks, but our wilderness, including national parks, are mostly accessible only by car. Can we fix this?
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Posted Tue, Sep 14, 2 a.m.
We're living the effects of the BP oil spill and fearing a proposed open-pit mine near Bristol Bay. Should we worry about our own state's vineyards and orchards growing so close to Hanford's plutonium?
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Posted Sun, Aug 15, 12:01 a.m.
The cruise ships stopping at the Port of Seattle are working on their green image, but most legally continue to discharge a lot of waste. A voluntary memorandum of understanding with an association of ships leaves regulators wishing for more leverage.
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Posted Wed, Jul 28, 2 a.m.
A Canadian industry, reliant on clearcutting huge stretches of boreal forest, realized it needed a Plan B. Industry leaders came to the table with environmentalists and found a way to market themselves as green.
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Posted Fri, Jul 9, 2 a.m.
The Travel Channel recently named the museum on First Hill one of the Top Ten Free Museums in the country. There are four new exhibitions this summer.
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Posted Mon, May 31, 9 a.m.
He brought the Klondike to life, but the career of Jack London makes an exciting tale too, with wilderness and sea adventures, socialist politics, and a bohemian origin with Seattle roots. A new biography tells us about the man who called himself a "Work Beast."
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Posted Tue, Mar 30, 2 a.m.
Some of our region's archaeological cold cases are tough to crack, from Sir Francis Drake's landing site to the source of beeswax on the beach, from strange clay balls to the "Lucy" of Indian basketry.
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Posted Mon, Mar 1, 9:09 p.m.
The Vancouver Olympics captured nicely the two opposing impulses of the Pacific Northwest: the desire to extol our green virtues, and to exploit our future.
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Posted Tue, Feb 16, 2 a.m.
The Great Recession and federal and state budget cuts are creating hurdles for heritage advocates who see historic preservation and urban revitalization as a way out of the economic doldrums. Obama's budget is a major setback because it slashes cherished programs.
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A daughter's powerful letter about the still-unsolved assassination of her father, federal prosecutor Thomas Wales; senatorial politics; raw political maneuvering in Snohomish County; Gregoire vs. liquor privatization.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 20, 11 a.m. 2011
In the news: Corrections abstains from more projected budget cuts; an Alaska town takes environmental controversy into its own hands; city council badmouths the mounted police; social security, explained; and why ATM users should watch their backs.
MOREPosted Wed, Mar 16, 2 a.m. 2011
A bill in the legislature could signal that lawmakers are backing away from dealing with the part-timers' longstanding concerns about low pay.
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The Obama administration raises new concerns about the vulnerability of the West Coast to missile attack.
MOREPosted Wed, Nov 3, 2:45 p.m. 2010
It's confirmed: There are enough write-ins that Alaska will have to count them all to determine whether Lisa Murkowski pulled off an improbable upset of Palin-pal Joe Miller.
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The former police chief takes to the stage.
MOREPosted Thu, Oct 7, 10:05 p.m. 2010
And also recognizing a few historic gems, with good news for Bainbridge and Crosscut.
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 24, 2:12 p.m. 2010
The political consultant heads north to help Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign and spoil a Tea Party.
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Jon Rowley, nationally known food consultant and tastemaker, joins a potato breeder, an olive farmer, a beekeeper, and others in the new Georgia Pellegrini account.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 10, 10 p.m. 2010
For a young reporter who believed in little of what Stevens represented, one quick trip with the senator was impressive enough to follow him from a distance for decades.
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