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Battle in Seattle, 10 years after
Posted Fri, Nov 13, 6 a.m.
One change since 1999, we're talking about Teabaggers, not sea turtles.
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Michelle Malkin’s journey from ideas to tribes
Posted Fri, Nov 6, 6 a.m.
A former Seattle Times colleague wonders what happened to the libertarian provocateur who used to engage him at their adjoining office doors.
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Election 09: National results point to a throw-them-out tide
Posted Wed, Nov 4, 6:56 a.m.
Incumbent Congressional Democrats in marginal districts will now run scared, making passage of health-care reform more difficult.
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'Just Do It' can be taxing in D.C.
Posted Wed, Sep 23, 6 a.m.
Why making progress on health care, foreign affairs and the financial system is harder than it looks.
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Obama sticks with the Bush approach on Columbia River salmon
Posted Tue, Sep 15, 3:34 p.m.
Salmon advocates had expected a move toward study of breaching dams as a remedy for declining runs on the Snake and Columbia. Instead, they got a "split-the-baby" decision that may please neither side of this hot political issue.
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Ted Kennedy and the perils of liberal fundamentalism
Posted Wed, Sep 2, 6 a.m.
If liberalism dies with its great champion, it will be because of many liberals' self-righteous demand for purity in policy. Kennedy's life taught us otherwise.
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The Ted Kennedy I knew
Posted Wed, Aug 26, 7:59 a.m.
He was in many ways a representative of the Old Senate, always respecting opponents and looking for ways to work together. He also stayed true to friends, earning their lifelong devotion.
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Why Bellingham lost the NOAA competition
Posted Fri, Aug 21, 6 a.m.
Port Commissioners are briefed on how Bellingham and Newport compare, as prospective new homes for the research ships. That was a tie, but the Oregon city won the match by putting money on the table. Bellingham decides not to challenge the ruling.
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Why Obama's health reforms are in trouble
Posted Sun, Aug 16, 1:12 p.m.
He has given Congress too much say and shifted the rationale. The electorate is over-stressed. Time for incrementalism, if Obama and the Hill Democrats can pull it off.
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Portland Cong. Earl Blumenauer 'stunned' by reaction to his end-of-life-counseling provision
Posted Fri, Aug 14, 6 a.m.
His compassionate proposal passed a House committee without Republican opposition. Then came the political whirlwind, with 'outright lying' that the respected Congressman calls the worst in his 37 years in public life.
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We need to enlarge the 'American Alps'
Posted Thu, Aug 13, 6 a.m.
When the North Cascades National Park was created in 1968, key lands were left out for reasons that no longer apply. There's a new push to add to the wildlands.
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Cong. Rick Larsen confronts anger at a town hall meeting on healthcare
Posted Mon, Aug 10, 6 a.m.
The hostility is out there, but so are the supporters for reform. Larsen appeals to 'Northwestern civility' in one crowded session in Skagit County.
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The NOAA exodus: What went wrong?
Posted Wed, Aug 5, 6 a.m.
Taken by surprise, some members of the Washington D.C. delegation are preparing to challenge the decision moving NOAA from Seattle to Newport, Oregon. It's a particularly tough blow for Bellingham, whose ambitious waterfront revival was counting on the NOAA fleet.
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Newport's rendezvous with NOAA
Posted Tue, Aug 4, 6:02 p.m.
Its stunning raid of Seattle-based NOAA ships culminates a story going back 40 years, and rewards some smart economic planning
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Humor: The Zombocracy and the Upticrats
Posted Sun, Jul 26, 11:29 a.m.
One nation, under Zombies, with repression and injustice for all.
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Congress is looking over Obama's shoulder at the 2010 elections
Posted Mon, Jul 20, 6 a.m.
The nervousness of Congress about Obama's big and costly programs is directly related to the coming election and the timing of the recovery
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Obama badly needs a victory
Posted Thu, Jun 25, 6 a.m.
Just as Obama's health care and energy reform bills take shape, voters and Congress are newly sensitized over costs, thanks to the way the new President mishandled his stimulus package.
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Earth to GOP: start talking about real solutions
Posted Thu, May 28, 6 a.m.
The media, and the Republicans, have been gleefully obsessed with self-flagellation. If the GOP is going to regain respect, it has to have distinctive answers to the big problems of the day. Here are some examples.
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Don't write off the Republicans
Posted Fri, May 8, 6 a.m.
Obama may be making two mistakes from over-confidence: not trying to reach out to Republicans in Congress, and leaving the crafting of major legislation to the Democratic barons. Look for a modest revival of the GOP in the next election.
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A witch's brew of political scares in Congress
Posted Tue, Oct 13, 6 a.m.
From Afghanistan to health care to ethics, lawmakers head toward Halloween with distractions aplenty.
MOREObama's speech: So long, public option
Posted Thu, Sep 10, 7:46 a.m.
The speech played well with the public, but it probably raised too many alarms among the factions in Congress.
MOREA personal memory of Ted Kennedy
Posted Wed, Aug 26, 6:59 a.m.
"I felt his happy clasp on my shoulder"
MOREWith friends like liberal Democrats...
Posted Thu, May 28, 9:11 p.m.
A test case: Obama's proposals to fund health-care reform pinch liberal Democrats who are protecting wealthy backers. Time for some fancy math from Sen. Maria Cantwell.
MOREA side of transparent pork, please
Posted Thu, Mar 12, 6 a.m.
Obama may not like earmarks, but Congressman Jim McDermott loves 'em
MORETwo Oregon politicians figure in Daschle replacement speculation
Posted Sat, Feb 7, 4:31 p.m.
Oddly, both Sen. Ron Wyden and former Gov. John Kitzhaber could both be appointed to key roles, but chances are neither will get a call from Obama.
MOREThe stimulus bill slouches toward enactment
Posted Mon, Jan 26, 8 a.m.
It's bargaining time before the Grand Bargain is passed. The worsening economic news guarantees passage, but not success.
MOREBlogging the Inauguration: A giant feed lot
Posted Sat, Jan 17, 9:44 a.m.
Shrines of democracy, amid what looks like a refugee camp
MOREDetroit's welfare queens
Posted Fri, Dec 5, noon 2008
When Alan Mulally was at Boeing, he lectured the unions about the realities of the free market. Now he wants taxpayers to give Ford the security he denied workers.
MOREDana Gioia leaves the NEA
Posted Sat, Nov 22, noon 2008
In the election hoopla and cabinet-post-planning speculation, one recently vacated office seems to be going largely unnoticed: the NEA chairmanship.
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