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Midday Scan: Boeing's make-up gift to Everett

Tue, Apr 24, 11 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

Boeing eyes ways to expand production in Everett. Meanwhile, Alaska and its oil companies are looking more and more like some bizarre Downton Abbey metaphor and Washington's public schools are faced with shrinking budgets.

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Retro reality: Seattle looks back as life goes forward

Fri, Apr 20, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

Winners and losers: Commies with errant missles, hookers getting close to the White House, fears of a nuclear test. And all of it while Seattle celebrates a 50-year-old event. Is this the Mad Men, Part Deux?

Midday Scan: Ms get political about new arena plan

Wed, Apr 4, 11:08 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

Perhaps looking out for themselves and their own future, the Mariners send a strongly worded letter to city and county leaders telling them to go somewhere else with the new arena.

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Allen family: It was 20 years ago the Foundation began to give

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.

Redistricting away Seattle's minority representation

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.

Jonathan Raban's lonely journeys

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."

Midday Scan: Thursday's top stories around the region

Thu, Sep 29, 11 a.m.

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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Time to suspend all deep-ocean commercial fishing?

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.

A critic's favorite: the raven rattle at SAM

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.

Midday Scan: Tuesday's top stories around the region

Tue, Sep 20, 11 a.m.

By 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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An ambitious new effort to improve south end schools

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.

Frontline airs documentary on clergy sex abuse in Alaska

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.