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When there's no cost to them, Olympia's liberals stand strong

Posted Tue, Feb 7, 2 a.m.

On gay marriage and other social issues, they are all in. And that's good. But what about paying for education, social services, investing in our future? Leave that to ... Bill Gates Sr.

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Election-year economics: 10 essential questions

Posted Sun, Feb 5, 2 a.m.

How will the economy do this year? How will the economy impact presidential race? Is Seattle really in an economic growth zone? Here are some answers to your questions about 2012 for the our pocketbooks, the nation, and Seattle.

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Ports and transportation will shape economic success or failure

Posted Sun, Feb 5, 2 a.m.

In a more connected world, even the most-favored regions need to improve their transportation systems and their ability to move goods and people, and to educate skilled workers.

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Weekend Tech Scan: Need another reason to buy a Kindle Fire?

Posted Sat, Feb 4, 2 a.m.

The development of a Slingbox app for Amazon's best selling device adds to its usefulness as an all-media device. The Samsung Note emerges into a tech marketplace primed for tablets.

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Inside King County's homeless count: the uncertainties and the lessons

Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.

The annual counts are anything but exciting espionage. But getting an accurate number is harder than you might think, and perhaps ultimately more rewarding. 

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New Euro twist: A summit with a general strike

Posted Mon, Jan 30, midnight

On the eve of a crisis meeting in Brussels, new data underlines the darker possibility behind the endless political wrangling: a lost generation of young people.

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Updated: A little oil and a ton of trouble

Posted Sun, Jan 29, 2 a.m.

A fisherman with a leaky hydraulic line discovers what a serious business an oil sheen on Puget Sound can be — especially if you're one of the unlucky few to get tagged for it, and you get on the wrong side of the pollution detectives. New: The Department of Ecology has now reached a decision.

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Weekend Tech Scan: Time to look at Windows phones

Posted Sat, Jan 28, 2 a.m.

Interesting developments in smartphones, shopping apps, "cutting the cord" and reading, yes, real books.

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Heritage Turkey Watch

Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.

The Kalakala still floats, for now, plus Seattle's plywood "space shuttle," demolition fight in Spokane, and other preservation news.

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Port opens door for China to get U.S. coal

Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.

As Northwest concerns build about global and local environmental issues in the Northwest, a small Oregon port gives its approval to exporting coal to burn in Chinese power plants.

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Weekend Tech Scan: What's on your iPad? (Here's what's on mine)

Posted Sat, Jan 21, 2 a.m.

The iPad may not be everyone's work machine, but it still dreams bigger than any other tablet on the market.

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State recovery slowed by public sector job losses

Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2 a.m.

The cutting mantra is slowing Washington state's recovering, according to the state economist.

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Washington state ignores Euro crisis at its own risk

Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2 a.m.

The media hype every twitch in South Carolina. But the EU? Well, the EU countries together account for more of the state's exports than next-door neighbor Canada and almost as much as China.

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A bookstore's slant on the state of the land

Posted Thu, Jan 19, 2 a.m.

A bookseller casts his eye about for clues to our times, based on the year's taste in calendars and books and decades and Steve Jobs.

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Meet the producer: Will Amazon dominate book publishing, too?

Posted Wed, Jan 18, 2 a.m.

Amazon makes an ambitious move into publishing, print as well as digital. It's snagging both obscure and bestselling authors. This means more alternatives for readers and scribblers -- for now, anyway.

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Seattle district needs to be schooled on students' realities

Posted Tue, Jan 17, 2 a.m.

Training for jobs has shifted to community colleges. But shouldn't we offer opportunities to relate career interests to classes in high school, even if it contradicts the mantra of college for all?

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Green Acre Radio: Environmentalists look warily at Legislature

Posted Sun, Jan 15, 10:15 a.m.

The green community is facing its most-challenging legislative session, where it will be on alert against attempts to roll back environmental protections and initiatives. But there are also hopes for progress on several fronts.

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The environmental 'plot' against Canada over oil sands?

Posted Fri, Jan 13, 2 a.m.

Radical U.S. environmentalists are out to get Canada! And seize the energy, oil, and wood businesses for the U.S.! Or, so a hypocritical government says.

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3 fun tech items from the electronics show

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 3:45 p.m.

So many innovations at the Las Vegas electronics show, but a lust in my heart for only a few.

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Sh*t Kent Said

Posted Thu, Jan 12, 2 a.m.

Nuggets of wisdom from Seattle's mossback Yoda

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Midday Scan: Birth control time travel; Rep. Dicks caught redhanded; caffeine powder hits the shelves

Posted Wed, Feb 8, 12:36 p.m.

The birth control debate moves back in time. How Norm Dicks funneled federal money to his son. Caffeine powder gives us a glimpse of the future.

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WA's gift to taxpayers? $29.3 billion

Posted Tue, Feb 7, 2 a.m.

A recent Department of Revenue report found that Washington state will grant nearly $30 billion in tax breaks by the end of the current budget period. Yet lawmakers struggle to plug a $1.5 billion budget hole.

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Midday Scan: Wichita bitter at Boeing; Microsoft backs marriage bill; Inslee and McKenna's tax stands

Posted Fri, Jan 20, 11 a.m.

While once-jilted Washington has shown no sympathy for Wichita's abandonment by Boeing, couldn't we end up on the receiving end of more of the same treatment some day? Microsoft takes its stand as the gay marriage bill moves closer to enough winning over enough senators. And Cold Warrior demagogue Joe McCarthy may be smiling on the state's House Republicans.

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Faith-based protest: accounts withdrawn at BofA

Posted Fri, Jan 13, 4:45 p.m.

The Church Council of Greater Seattle and the Faith Action Network cut longstanding ties with the Bank of America. Better to bank with local institutions and help local communities, they say.

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McCormick, Schmick and ... Bubba's?!

Posted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.

The restaurants, which have just seen an ownership change, trace their roots to Jake's in Portland. Whatever the new Texas-born owner does, according to our Portland-native writer, he shouldn't mess with Jake's.

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Lowe's welcomes Muslims in its stores, but not on reality TV

Posted Mon, Dec 19, 2 a.m. 2011

The home improvement chain flails around after falling for a Muslim-bashing boycott. Meanwhile, look who's shopping in its Rainier Valley store.

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Visiting in Holland, a view of a crisis

Posted Mon, Dec 5, 9:54 p.m. 2011

The crowds of holiday shoppers are big and the attitude is that the crisis will be worked out. But do people really want Germany calling the economic shots?

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Wichita gets the bye-bye Boeing blues

Posted Mon, Nov 28, 2 a.m. 2011

Instead of building its long-awaited refueling tanker in Kansas, Boeing threatens to pull out.

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Warm trees, cold people

Posted Mon, Nov 21, 2 a.m. 2011

The absurdity of people living on the cold streets of the richest nation in the world shows up sharply against a backdrop of bright public art.

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New 737 battle: Gregoire makes a move

Posted Wed, Nov 16, 4 p.m. 2011

A new study shows opportunities for the state to improve its chances of landing the next generation Boeing 737 MAX but Texas shapes up as a tough competitor.

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In Idaho, the windfall of an oil-and-gas boom The Idaho Statesman reports, "There is no oil and gas production in Idaho, but that doesn’t mean the U.S. energy boom has bypassed Idaho."

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Nicholas Kristof: the challenges of the white underclass Kristof writes, "My touchstone is my beloved hometown of Yamhill, Ore., population about 925 on a good day. We Americans think of our rural American heartland as a lovely pastoral backdrop, but these days some marginally employed white families in places like Yamhill seem to be replicating the pathologies that have devastated many African-American families over the last generation or two."

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Low demand, lack of timber blamed for closing of Arlington mill Another Snohomish Co. sawmill, Northwest Hardwoods, is closing its doors, taking with it at least 40 jobs.

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Seattle's pay growth the lowest of U.S. cities In a recent study on pay growth in big cities, Seattle ranked last. Next round's on . . . Detroit?

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The rise of the Obama Super PAC The President recently reversed his stance on the controversial funding machines. Internal memos give us a clue to administration's about-face.

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