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Bus envy
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Spend your summer vacation in Eastern Washington, an exotic locale where lakes are slippery, the Scablands surprising, and wheat farmers are smashing stuff for fun.

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Olympia songwriter Kimya Dawson has her eye on Sesame Street

The indie musician who rose to prominence with the movie Juno is otherwise sticking to her modest lifestyle.

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Predicted: Seattle's downtown office rental market will loosen up

A pair of commercial real estate brokers have been doing some calculating, and they think vacancies will rise in the next two years as supply increases.

Are WaMu shareholders about to get another haircut?

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Boston's Big Dig now estimated to cost $22 billion

Latest escalation of costs is another $7 billion. The red ink is now engulfing the whole state and crippling other projects. The highway tunnel project was originally estimated at $2.5 billion.

Seattle Times editorial: It's a bad time to put light rail on the ballot

Al Gore wows the Netroots convention and asks their help in the energy challenge

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Editorial cartoonists join the endangered list at newspapers

Ranks are thinning as papers cut costs and shift to syndicated cartoons. Seattle P-I's David Horsey also laments Bush fatigue: "there was not anything particularly funny or clever left to say about this guy being incompetent or disastrous."

David Horsey replies with McCain cartoon spoofing New Yorker cover

Jerry Springer's sea of troubles

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