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Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.
By Judy Lightfoot
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.
By Collin Tong
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.
By Knute Berger
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.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
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.
By Spider Kedelsky
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.
By Joe Copeland
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.
By Anthony B. Robinson
"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.
By Knute Berger
Gov. Gregoire cancels $10 million in heritage capital grants, impacting restoration projects statewide. Seattle is especially hard hit.
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21 COMMENTS
Posted Mon, Nov 15, 2 a.m.
By Knute Berger
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.
By Anne-Marije Rook
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.
By Chuck Wolfe
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.
By Knute Berger
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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23 COMMENTS
Posted Tue, Sep 14, 2 a.m.
By Ronald Holden
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.
By Lee van der Voo
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.
By Daniel Jack Chasan
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.
By Sue Frause
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.
By Knute Berger
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.
By Knute Berger
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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12 COMMENTS
Posted Mon, Mar 1, 9:09 p.m.
By Knute Berger
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.
By Knute Berger
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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Alaska Blog posts
Posted Thu, Sep 29, 11 a.m.
2011
by
Pete Jackson
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.
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Posted Tue, Sep 20, 11 a.m.
2011
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Pete Jackson
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.
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Posted Wed, Mar 16, 2 a.m.
2011
by
Joe Copeland
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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Posted Tue, Jan 11, 6 p.m.
2011
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Knute Berger
The Obama administration raises new concerns about the vulnerability of the West Coast to missile attack.
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Posted Wed, Nov 3, 2:45 p.m.
2010
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Bob Simmons
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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Posted Thu, Oct 28, 9 a.m.
2010
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Knute Berger
The former police chief takes to the stage.
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Posted Thu, Oct 7, 10:05 p.m.
2010
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Knute Berger
And also recognizing a few historic gems, with good news for Bainbridge and Crosscut.
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Posted Fri, Sep 24, 2:12 p.m.
2010
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Bob Simmons
The political consultant heads north to help Sen. Lisa Murkowski's campaign and spoil a Tea Party.
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Posted Wed, Aug 25, 2 a.m.
2010
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Ronald Holden
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.
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Posted Tue, Aug 10, 10 p.m.
2010
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Mike Henderson
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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