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Posted Wed, Feb 8, 2 a.m.
At a time when gender barriers still had to be surmounted, eight women created better civic engagement with their personal strengths and social media tools, like contact lists written with pen on paper.
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Posted Mon, Feb 6, 2 a.m.
Romney rolls, cue Obama's "comeback," women roar, and Seattle's porn problem.
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Posted Thu, Feb 2, 2 a.m.
The foundation builds strong relationships with each community so that gifts will leverage the community's strengths. Working with Native American groups highlights the importance of a sense of reciprocity.
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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 Tue, Jan 31, 9:19 p.m.
Anti-abortion activism has caused estrangement of two agencies serving women's health needs. Caught in the middle: women in Washington and Idaho served by breast-cancer screenings.
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Posted Mon, Jan 30, 2 a.m.
Creative Director Andrew Russell, a young talent snatched from New York City, has a plan to reinvent the Intiman Theatre. But the clock is ticking.
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Posted Mon, Jan 30, 2 a.m.
Space, is it the next frontier, or political dead end? Plus, the staying power of potholes.
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Posted Sat, Jan 28, 3 p.m.
What can we do? It starts with the first part of reduce, reuse, and recycle.
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Posted Sat, Jan 28, 6:30 a.m.
A friend's battle with addiction and alcoholism leads to the ER -- and anger on the part of a friend who tried to help. But there's real strength in fighting every day to move forward rather than slip back toward another relapse.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
The Kalakala still floats, for now, plus Seattle's plywood "space shuttle," demolition fight in Spokane, and other preservation news.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
Marcellus Turner, Seattle's new City Librarian, talks about why Seattleites love their libraries and how he plans to keep things that way. Even in the midst of budget cuts.
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Posted Fri, Jan 27, 2 a.m.
As Northwest concerns build about global and local environmental issues in the Northwest, a small Oregon port gives its approval to exporting coal to burn in Chinese power plants.
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Posted Thu, Jan 26, 2 a.m.
The writer of evocative Northwest tales has turned from the region's natural beauty toward urban life, which he caricatures even as he brings us the news of what Seattle has become.
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Posted Thu, Jan 26, 2 a.m.
A city-funded pilot program in Ballard will provide parking spaces, some amenities, and info on housing resources to families whose only home rides on four wheels.
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Posted Wed, Jan 25, 2 a.m.
Smith Tower was the city's largest building for nearly 40 years. But the Space Needle, and the people behind it, opened the way to a dynamic city that went from backwater to cutting edge.
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Posted Tue, Jan 24, 2 a.m.
Updated: The 'Tateuchi Truce' over the Sound Transit wars on the Eastside made clear what a catalyst for an urbanized Eastside this long-aborning cultural center has become.
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Posted Mon, Jan 23, 2 a.m.
Too many people are abusing painkillers, many of them young. Very few abusers are in treatment. And it won't be easy reversing a history of lax oversight.
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Posted Mon, Jan 23, 2 a.m.
Some unexpected outcomes in a stormy week in Seattle and South Carolina.
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Posted Sun, Jan 22, midnight
Responding to concerns about excessive prescribing of drugs, Washington state has new rules in effect. But will it make a difference in a trend that is claiming more lives nationally, including among the young?
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Posted Fri, Jan 20, 2 a.m.
The cutting mantra is slowing Washington state's recovering, according to the state economist.
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A recent Department of Revenue report found that Washington state will grant nearly $30 billion in tax breaks by the end of the current budget period. Yet lawmakers struggle to plug a $1.5 billion budget hole.
MOREPosted Thu, Feb 2, 10:45 a.m.
No more excuses about marriage for some folks. Bellevue wants what Seattle has lost. Green jobs: not going according to the plan.
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 31, 2 a.m.
'Local Brew' delivers real laughs and captures real Seattle moments. Best of all, it revives the shambolic, do-it-yourself spirit that made Seattle fun.
MOREPosted Sat, Jan 21, 9:30 a.m.
In the snow, it's harder to deliver the printed paper or the mail, or to return a DVD. Online, not so much.
MOREPosted Fri, Jan 20, 10:41 p.m.
True voter turnout figures calculated by a noted authority show that in 2010, Washington trailed only one other state. Is it a vote-by-mail benefit?
MOREPosted Mon, Jan 9, 2 a.m.
The restaurants, which have just seen an ownership change, trace their roots to Jake's in Portland. Whatever the new Texas-born owner does, according to our Portland-native writer, he shouldn't mess with Jake's.
MOREPosted Tue, Jan 3, 4:30 p.m.
The Northern Tier as a whole has seen a spurt in population.
MOREPosted Wed, Jan 4, 2 a.m.
A Jan. 6 memorial at MOHAI for writer, teacher, and neighborhood activist.
MOREPosted Sat, Dec 31, 6 a.m. 2011
Once Seattle had its own self-mocking comedy sketch show, but now it's too grown-up to be funny. Luckily, Portland's not.
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 28, 1:29 p.m. 2011
As expected, the commission creates a new Congressional District in Democratic stronghold Olympia, fashions a majority-minority district for Adam Smith, gladdens two Republican hearts, and creates a nonsensical, jump-ball district where Jay Inslee is vacating his seat. GOP is the winner.
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