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Posted Tue, Jan 3, 2 a.m.
Mazatlan meets Mahler, and two formerly frantic freelance viola players from Seattle find steady work and communal musical bliss in Mexico, where orchestras thrive while their counterparts in the U.S. are struggling.
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Posted Wed, Dec 28, 2 a.m.
This town couldn't be another NOLA and wouldn't want to, but maybe it can learn something about life and living from the battered Big Easy.
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Posted Mon, Dec 19, 2 a.m.
The Department of Justice lands, clumsily, on Seattle police, and Seattle Schools Supt. Susan Enfield opts out of the fray. Here's the story behind these two bombshells.
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Posted Mon, Dec 19, 2 a.m.
The probers found excessive force problems, but wouldn't share how they came to the conclusion with the very people who requested their help. As for bias in the justice system, D.C. should should look in the mirror.
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Posted Sun, Dec 18, 11:30 p.m.
The children "need to feel like they still belong to this community," says Celebrate Kids! founder Vance Bartley, once a lifer behind bars under the state’s three-strikes law.
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Posted Wed, Dec 14, 2 a.m.
Seattle's first-term mayor is getting down to last chances to create a new image of himself as someone fighting for the people on issues where agreement is possible.
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Posted Fri, Nov 18, 12:23 p.m.
As Seattle police face criticism for their tactics, "Newyorkland" provides a jarring, humanizing look into life on the force.
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Posted Fri, Oct 21, 6 p.m.
The mother of Trooper Ronda Reynolds faces another delay in the long effort to get her daughter's death treated as a murder.
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Posted Tue, Oct 18, noon
The public and media obsession speaks to a problem in our narcissistic culture. We could wrestle with our issues about violence in a healthier way through serious art.
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Posted Fri, Oct 7, 2 a.m.
A verdict has been rendered, acquitting her of the murder charge, but the questions about this fascinating case will go on for years.
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Posted Thu, Oct 6, 2 a.m.
Public TV's documentary historian refuses to see the connections between yesteryear's prohibition and today's drug war. It's particularly strange for someone who otherwise sees so much about race in America.
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Posted Wed, Sep 7, 2 a.m.
Why has Attorney General Rob McKenna piled onto Mayor McGinn's crusade against Village Voice Media's online sex ads? And why is the Seattle Weekly's parent company hanging tough against them?
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Posted Thu, Aug 4, 10:19 p.m.
King County appears to favor a plan to move its juvenile detention facility to the landmark PacMed tower, former home of Amazon, in the south Seattle neighborhood. "Here we go again," says a neighborhood leader. "We're getting dumped on."
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Posted Tue, Jul 26, 2 a.m.
Reflections on political terror and the Scandinavian experience in the Northwest.
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Posted Wed, Jul 6, 2 a.m.
A midday explosion comes alarmingly close to our writer, in the old section of the large and ancient trading city.
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Posted Wed, Jun 29, 2 a.m.
Gather 150,000 into a public place. Let many of them get drunk. Have maybe 300 cops on hand. The result was predictable mayhem, followed by an orgy of blame-shifting.
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Posted Thu, May 26, 2 a.m.
Should Seattle cops be punished for swearing at suspects? Do we really want Nordstrom standards for policing our streets?
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Posted Mon, May 16, 2 a.m.
Some police experts suggest focusing more on crime hot spots and less on citywide "beats" or 911 response times, a strategy that should appeal to advocates of urban density.
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Posted Wed, May 11, 2 a.m.
New ideas can be helpful. But the only way to implement them and improve police-community relations is for the hard work of leadership to occur.
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Posted Tue, May 3, 2 a.m.
The scolds tell us not to party. What's their problem?
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UW loses, the Cougars win, but on college football's darkest day when it was hard to care about the games.
MOREPosted Mon, Oct 10, 9:44 p.m. 2011
Harvard professor Bruce Western (Punishment and Inequality in America) and a panel of local speakers discuss the impact of the "prison boom" that has placed 2 million Americans behind bars and 5 million more under correctional supervision.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 20, 11 a.m. 2011
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.
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 8, 11:21 a.m. 2011
Homeland insecurity, a new bridge for endless debate, why Obama is wobbly on the environment, and the high cost of brunching with POTUS.
MOREPosted Tue, Aug 30, 5:15 p.m. 2011
The landmark store, dating back to 1927, is leaving due to parking, stadium, and safety issues.
MOREPosted Mon, Jun 27, 1:47 p.m. 2011
The author of a new book on the Barefoot Bandit talks about how the unlikely kid from Camano became a cult figure, greatly abetted by social media.
MOREPosted Fri, May 6, 2 a.m. 2011
Criminologists say changes in police practices can make real differences in neighborhoods. Changes? In a police department's culture?
MOREPosted Thu, May 5, 2 a.m. 2011
It makes sense. What better place for privacy?
MOREPosted Sun, Feb 27, 6 a.m. 2011
We need to know what they're doing wrong. Sure. But what about an effort to tell us what they're doing right, too?
MOREPosted Sun, Feb 6, 3:16 p.m. 2011
As a recent UW matter suggests, athletes could use some advice about relationships with young women they have just met. All young men, in fact, should check a woman's age before making certain moves.
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