Saving our communal storm sewer, Puget Sound
Annals of Nathan Myhrvold and the many fathers of invention, by Malcolm Gladwell
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Science / Environment »In just decades, a Lake Washington fish evolved to survive without pollution
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Seattle goes gah-gah over choo-choos
The city's own series of tubes
Fast times and loads of fun, despite expensive gas
The Northwest's real fairy tales
Spin the bottle: The climate-action mayor misses the point on drinking water
A city of scolds
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Seattle goes gah-gah over choo-choos
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Responding to her readers on paid family leave
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Why Hillary Clinton should stay in the race
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The city's own series of tubes
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Puget Sound on Prozac
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Fast times and loads of fun, despite expensive gas
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Hillary Clinton, will you please go now!
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Memo to the owners of the Mariners
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Strange figure sighted at the City Council
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The salmon fisheries of the Northwest have spawned a new industry of bureaucrats, lawyers, environmentalists, sport fishers, commercial interests, scientists, and natives, all focused on the absence of fish. Meanwhile, four sockeye returned last summer to a lake in Idaho once teeming with tens of thousands.
Outside court, it had been eerily silent during the Briana Waters trial. No courthouse protests, no action in the streets, not even flyers at The Evergreen State College. Her supporters had been circumspect. Then, this morning, it was all over the news. "Street of Dreams" arson. ELF.
Briana Waters is on trial in Tacoma for her alleged role in the 2001 arson at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture. It was one of a number of incidents of vandalism in the Northwest attributed to Earth Liberation Front's campaign to rid the world of things that aren't "wild." So what is wild?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorialist, pop culture writer, and columnist D. Parvaz has been named a Nieman Fellow and will head off to Harvard University for a year of studying, it was announced Friday, May 16. The Niemans are prestigious fellowships offered by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard.