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Stories for Oct. 5, 2007
Why can't this environmentally aware city e-mail me my bill?
You can pay your Seattle utlitity bill online, but you can't opt out of snail-mailed notices, and they won't alert you by e-mail when it's time to pay. Meanwhile, the private sector is well along the path to paperless transactions.
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Putting on the Doggerel: This week our romantic news poet offers a sonnet.
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Michael Medved sticks up for his column on slavery in America
The Seattle-based national radio host has been the talk of the blogosphere this week. And he was flamed as the "Worst Person in the World" by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for an article about America's culpability in the institution of slavery. He spoke with Crosscut's David Neiwert about why he believes he was right.
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