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Can we talk about what the County really does?

Posted Fri, Jun 26, 6 a.m.

The King County Executive race is highly competitive, but the candidates keep talking about issues where the county has little influence. Here's a plea to address the topics where the county matters, such as law enforcement.

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What was Shawna Forde thinking?

Posted Tue, Jun 16, 6 a.m.

Shawna Forde, a lost soul in Everett and the world of anti-immigrant terrorism, is now accused of murder. It adds another dark chapter to Everett's history and to the stories of mayhem caused by 'true believers.'

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The folly of building a new Seattle jail

Posted Fri, Apr 10, 6 a.m.

Other regions are closing prisons, legalizing drugs, and developing alternatives. Why is Mayor Nickels wedded to the status quo?

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Memo: AIG bonus paperwork due today!

Posted Fri, Mar 20, 4 a.m.

Please use black ink and Montblanc fountain pen only

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Cure the economy by reviving 'animal spirits'

Posted Fri, Mar 6, 6 a.m.

A bright blue scrotum, vicious chimps, Bobo, and sexually incompetent pandas: Here's a stimulus package of wildlife stories that could lead to an economic recovery.

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Blago and backlash

Posted Thu, Dec 11, 6 a.m.

How the Chicago corruption story and other lavish raids on the public treasury (and trust) could induce an angry populist backlash.

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Tim Burgess makes a fast start at City Council

Posted Wed, Dec 10, 6 a.m.

The freshman has made varsity in his first year, pulling together coalitions and also drawing the City Council to the center. Some think he should be mayor some day, while others think he is stiffing progressive causes.

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Up yours, Virginia

Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.

Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.

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What Somali pirates can learn from Walla Walla and Wall Street

Posted Wed, Nov 26, 7 a.m.

Washington's death row inmates and corporate fat cats are employing strategies that could come in handy for seagoing brigands.

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Seattle's misguided gun ban

Posted Mon, Nov 17, 6 a.m.

Mayor Greg Nickels plans to defy state law with a gun ban that is worse than an empty gesture: It puts law-abiding citizens at greater risk.

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Indiana Jones, meth addict

Posted Sun, Oct 12, 4:09 p.m.

The strange link between looting Indian artifacts and methamphetamine users.

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How accurate is Battle in Seattle?

Posted Wed, Oct 1, 3 a.m.

A journalist and former Seattle City Council member who led the council's investigation into the WTO riots faults the film for claiming too much for the protesters. More disturbing was the picture of dreamy nonchalance in planning that the investigation revealed about City Hall and Seattle Police.

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Pit bulls, bears, and lipstick: more attacks involving animals

Posted Tue, Sep 16, 4 a.m.

Lessons learned from the places where people, animals, and politics collide.

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A bipartisan mayor who's fond of prayer

Posted Thu, Aug 28, 3 a.m.

Dave Edler of Yakima is an unusual politician in a bastion of conservatism.

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On the fire line

Posted Tue, Aug 26, 4 a.m.

The U.S. Forest Service considers changing its firefighting protocol in the wake of sentencing over handling of the Thirtymile Fire, which claimed the lives of four firefighters.

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Northern fights

Posted Fri, Aug 22, 4 a.m.

Next in the Alaska scandals roundup: An errant senator's son and Troopergate. Part 2 of 2

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Bellevue's 'Little Eichmann'

Posted Tue, Aug 12, 5 a.m.

Finding the banality of Nazi evil close to home.

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Seattle City Hall stares at $50 million in cuts

Posted Thu, Jul 31, midnight

As the economy shrinks tax revenue, the mayor and City Council are making cuts, with more to come next year. One possible casualty would be 20 to 25 promised new cops.

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All the rage

Posted Mon, Jul 28, 4 p.m.

What's to blame for all the anger as cyclists, drivers, and citizens fight over their rights on the streets? Is it $4 gas? Young punks? Class warfare? Poor urban design? It's time to theorize.

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The geekiest arsonist

Posted Wed, Jul 16, 3 p.m.

Software engineer Jennifer Kolar is to be sentenced this week in federal court for her role in Earth Liberation Front arsons, including one at the University of Washington. Her time in prison will be reduced because she turned state's witness, but that doesn't mitigate the fact she is now regarded as a snitch by peers and could be labeled a terrorist by the government.

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Other media

B.C. court rules for native rights on Vancouver Island salmon The ruling by a B.C. Supreme Court justice urged negotiations between the federal government and Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation of Vancouver Island to settle the dispute over how much current salmon fishery rules have infringed on aboriginal rights.

Peter Callaghan: How we end up with judges like Michael Hecht The disgraced Pierce County judge is a result of our system of electing judges and the general unwillingness of lawyers to run against sitting judges.

Just do it: Why so many prohibitions are dropping away Gay marriage, using pot, vacationing in Cuba are among the bans that are fading away. Even Republicans are getting in touch with their libertarian side.

Judge allows securities fraud suit against WaMu execs, directors Federal District Court Judge Marsha Pechman will allow nearly all charges by shareholder plaintiffs against the leaders of the failed bank to go forward. The trial is scheduled to open in May, 2011.

Booksellers group asks Justice Department to probe price war led by Amazon, Wal-Mart The question is whether selling hot, new hardcover titles as low as $8.98 constitutes predatory pricing as defined by antitrust law.

Blog posts

Can a neo-Nazi be an environmentalist?

Posted Mon, Nov 2, 2:51 p.m.

A shooting in BC answers the question

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Gun crack down

Posted Mon, Sep 28, 10:55 p.m.

Focus should be on imposing real penalties on juvenile offenders, not Seattle's symbolic parks ban.

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What were they thinking?

Posted Tue, Sep 22, 6 a.m.

Spokane's "criminally insane escapee" raises big questions.

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The day Seattle faced an Al Qaeda threat

Posted Wed, Aug 19, 9:49 p.m.

Mayor Paul Schell still doesn't get much credit for a gutsy decision on New Year's Eve of 1999, following the arrest of a terrorist heading for Seattle from Port Angeles.

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Rob McKenna reaches out to bloggers

Posted Wed, Jul 15, 6 a.m.

The attorney general has a good idea, since the Olympia press corps is vanishing.

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Don't mess with Marilyn!

Posted Tue, Jun 30, 3:32 p.m.

There goes the (apathetic) neighborhood

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Mellow Seattle: maybe too mellow on crime?

Posted Wed, Apr 8, 3 p.m.

Why do we tolerate so much open crime on Seattle streets?

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Two ways to punish the AIG(reedy)

Posted Tue, Mar 17, noon

Not quite as good as 18th-century sanctions, but a start.

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He knows where you live

Posted Mon, Feb 9, 5:52 p.m.

Seattle Weekly gets the goods on notorious process-server Ron Belec

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Rich jerk update

Posted Fri, Jan 30, 6 a.m.

Buffalo huntin' high-tech exec goes to jail.

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