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Posted Thu, Feb 9, 2 a.m.
Gay marriage supporters cheered. But big money and advice is coming from out of state to help undo the legislature's votes and eradicate Republican senators who voted to support it.
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Posted Tue, Feb 7, 2 a.m.
The issues of abortion, birth control, and women's rights could play large in the presidential and Senate contests, including in Washington.
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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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Posted Wed, Feb 1, 10 p.m.
How the Washington state Senate's only openly gay member helped achieve something he once thought was beyond dreaming about.
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Posted Wed, Feb 1, 11:30 a.m.
Washington state helped set the pattern for the national abuse of personal liberties during the Red Scare days. Gays were among the targets, so it would be fitting to time repeal of state laws that served as a model for McCarthyism with approval of gay marriage.
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Posted Tue, Jan 31, 2 a.m.
A group of neighbors contested the location of the Crisis Solutions Center in the Jackson Place community. King County Superior Court ruled in DESC's favor, but the delay (and cost to taxpayers) continues.
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Posted Mon, Jan 23, 10 p.m.
Monday was scheduled to be a day for arguments about a state gay marriage bill. One senator's decision overshadowed that.
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Posted Fri, Jan 13, 2 a.m.
The Supreme Court ruled last week that the state legislature isn't fully funding education. Why the decision isn't the windfall for Washington education that it seems.
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Posted Thu, Jan 12, 2 a.m.
Appropriate tactics with mentally ill people increase police officers' satisfaction with their work, steer the sick to needed care, save time and money, and boost citizen faith in the force. Training works, but police also need to have other kinds of public support in place.
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Posted Thu, Jan 12, 2 a.m.
Whether shaped by religious faith or not, our world views are relevant to how we make public choices as well as personal ones.
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Posted Thu, Jan 5, 2 a.m.
Psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi explains why a mentally ill president may be just what we need, and how mania and depression have driven the triumphs and the tragedies of Lincoln, Churchill, Hitler, JFK, MLK, and, maybe, Newt Gingrich.
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Posted Wed, Jan 4, 3:41 p.m.
Gov. Chris Gregoire called for gay-marriage bills to be introduced in the Washington House and Senate next week, but some lawmakers say the legislation will need to win more votes to pass in the Senate.
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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 Tue, Dec 27, 2 a.m.
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.
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Posted Thu, Dec 22, 2 a.m.
As tangled and dramatic as events have been, there is potential for moving the city forward. But it will require the right approach.
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Posted Wed, Dec 21, 2 a.m.
A new study finds that blacks and Latinos face much greater likelihood of winding up in prison compared to whites arrested for the same crime. At each step through the criminal justice system, race may subconsciously play into the decisions, adding up to gross unfairness.
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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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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.
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 24, 11 a.m.
Washington gains a major windfall in the fight for gay marriage. Meanwhile, Washington's between-a-man-and-a-woman purists are already plotting its demise and at least one Westerner is too busy allegedly fomenting Russian revolution to weigh in.
MOREPosted Mon, Dec 26, 5 a.m. 2011
Washington's AG equates prostitution with rape and human trafficking, but thinks Backpage.com stands alone.
MOREPosted 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.
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 7, 11 a.m. 2011
Maybe the money for a viaduct museum helps Pioneer Square. Costco's initiative faces a court challenge. McGinn talks police reform. And the owner of the one-time ferry Kalakala speaks of the "global" importance of the dilapidated ship.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 6, 11 a.m. 2011
Now that some tribes are doing a little better, Republicans in Olympia can't stop thinking about how easy life would be if they could just get more of the gambling revenue. While the legislative leadership spins its wheels on the budget, other lawmakers don't want everyone else to see how little else is being done. Questions about Kitzhaber's death penalty moratorium.
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 25, 2 a.m. 2011
Judge James Redden has relentlessly demanded more from government attorneys trying to limit what must be done to protect salmon on the Columbia River.
MOREPosted Sun, Nov 13, 3:05 p.m. 2011
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 Thu, Oct 6, 2 a.m. 2011
A new Aldo Leopold documentary is set to premiere in Seattle's U-District, but can it bring the importance of land use and connectivity home to a new generation of conservationists?
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