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Stories for Feb. 27, 2008
Gang activity is like a recession
Gang activity is like a recession…you often don't know it's a problem until it's too late to do much. Several youth-related murders of late strongly suggest that gang violence, which had been somewhat contained in recent years, is coming back with a vengeance in Seattle and King County. (Today's Seattle Times notes the trend. And, just as more fiscal stimulus is an imperfect solution for an economic downturn, more police presence isn't the ultimate answer during a violent upturn. As new Seattle City Council member Bruce Harrell recently observed to me: "These kids, I would argue, were lost even before the bullets struck them."
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWRating the art in Portland's monthly gallery walk
As in Seattle, Portland's art galleries host a monthly "First Thursday" gallery walk, opening their doors after the work day to an assortment of pedestrians. Many are friends of the artists whose work hang on the walls; others are simply curious to set eyes on art that is produced in their own community. In Seattle, the walk was initially conceived as a means of drawing people to a neighborhood they might not otherwise visit, and I suspect this was once the case in Portland as well. But just like Seattle's Pioneer Square, Portland's Pearl District has long since become a destination for people of better means. As night began to fall, my visiting friend Brian and I decided to get a taste of Portland's reputedly hot art scene.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWNational politics update: No knockout blow in the last debate before Ohio and Texas
Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton left the Tuesday, Feb. 26, televised debate in Cleveland just about where they entered it: with Obama riding a double-digit lead over Clinton nationally among Democratic voters as the favorite for the presidential nomination and with both candidates running neck and neck in the vital Ohio and Texas primaries next Tuesday, March 4, when Rhode Island and Vermont also hold contests. Clinton desperately needs an Obama blunder or mistake between now and then to climb back into the race. It did not come in yesterday's debate. Highlights:
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Ask not who wrote the words, ask whose words are rote
A former speechwriter considers the national rhetoric and whether words mean what they say, or if it depends on who says them.
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