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Stories for May 11, 2009
Gregoire on the spot over performance audits
The Legislature voted to slash by 73% Auditor Brian Sonntag's budget for performance audits, with Lisa Brown and Ross Hunter among those wielding the knives. Over to you, Governor.
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Humor: Rating my neighbors, through recycling
You can learn all you need to know about your neigbors by pawing through their recycled wine bottles. Here's last week's scores, with our vain author winning as usual.
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A think tank provides a new ranking of state elementary schools
This one, modeled on a Canadian survey, is a mash-up of lots of WASL data. The question is whether the complicated system tells us much we don't already know about where the good (and troubled) schools are.
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