Fired up and ready to go — home
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Stories for June 17, 2008
Some McClatchy papers are taking the cuts worse than others
Things are never equal in the world of corporate journalism, and the announcement of major cuts by McClatchy, owner of four dailies in Washington and two weeklies, will not have the same effects across the board.
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The Right blogosphere is all over the GOP's call to investigate Gov. Christine Gregoire's gambling compact with a Washington state native tribe, here and here – while Eric Earling at Sound Politics also makes an interesting observation about The Seattle Times' lack of coverage on the issue.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Democrats sing 'Kumbaya'
It was a lovefest over the weekend in Spokane for Democratic party leaders and activists. In a show of party unity, Democrats reportedly passed the state party's platform in all of 10 minutes, following it with a quick approval of resolutions marked as "do pass" from the party's Platforms and Resolutions Committee.
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A Northwest photographer who captured the untamed
Darius Kinsey began photographing the Pacific Northwest in 1896. Much of what he captured no longer exists, but his photographs, now on view at the Whatcom Museum of History and Art, tell the story.
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Too cozy with developers? The problems with Seattle's planning department
With developers paying the bureaucrats to review their plans, we build in incentives to accelerate approvals and keep the projects flowing. Also, Seattle's regulatory agency may have become too big and too unaccountable to protect the public interest.
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