The dog that climbed trees
Posted Fri, Sep 4, 6 a.m.
The marvels of a morning walk in a Seattle park, amid one's dog-walking neighbors
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Crosscut blog posts of the past 10 days with the most clicks.
Posted Fri, Sep 4, 6 a.m.
The marvels of a morning walk in a Seattle park, amid one's dog-walking neighbors
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Posted Tue, Jun 16, 6 a.m.
The list grows longer once the public weighs in on local taboos.
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Posted Thu, Jun 11, 6 a.m.
Seattle doesn’t like to say No. (Look how many times we tried to say Yes to the monorail.) But that doesn’t mean we’re a city without no-nos.
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Posted Mon, May 18, 6 a.m.
Mining towns like Metaline Falls are struggling as auto sales slump, but across the border in British Columbia there is evidence that other places have found a future with another valuable resource.
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Posted Fri, May 8, 6 a.m.
If Rick Steves were a drunk, this might be the book he'd write. Seattle's grittiest bars and taverns are the subject of a new guide to local dives, shadowy repositories of the real, slurring-its-words Seattle.
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Posted Wed, Apr 29, 6 a.m.
A short history of Lake Washington, as told to our author by one very long fish
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Posted Fri, Mar 6, 6 a.m.
A bright blue scrotum, vicious chimps, Bobo, and sexually incompetent pandas: Here's a stimulus package of wildlife stories that could lead to an economic recovery.
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Posted Mon, Jan 19, 6 a.m.
The paper generated legendary tales and unforgettable characters. Here are some that Godden, who joined The P-I in 1974, deems suitable for public consumption.
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Posted Mon, Dec 22, 6 a.m.
In a place where people show up at the opera in fleece, what should beauty look like?
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Posted Tue, Dec 2, 6 a.m.
Dispatch from the War on Christmas: Atheists make fools of themselves in Olympia while violence breaks out at Wal-Mart. The sacred season is now a very, very sick season.
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Posted Tue, Oct 28, 4:33 p.m.
A Bellingham publishing entrepreneur sees force and fortune in the Palin story, no matter how it turns out.
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Posted Sun, Oct 12, 4:09 p.m.
The strange link between looting Indian artifacts and methamphetamine users.
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Posted Tue, Sep 16, 4 a.m.
Lessons learned from the places where people, animals, and politics collide.
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Posted Mon, Aug 4, 11 a.m.
As a public service, we bust a few myths. Suffice it to say that all roads do not lead to Rome.
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What's to blame for all the anger as cyclists, drivers, and citizens fight over their rights on the streets? Is it $4 gas? Young punks? Class warfare? Poor urban design? It's time to theorize.
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Posted Thu, Jul 24, 8 p.m.
Try as they might, some motorists can't outsmart officials when it comes to custom license numbers. On the other hand, sometimes seemingly illicit alphanumerics are actually demonstrably proper.
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Posted Fri, Jul 18, 5 a.m.
Spend your summer vacation in Eastern Washington, an exotic locale where lakes are slippery, the Scablands surprising, and wheat farmers are smashing stuff for fun.
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Posted Mon, Jun 30, 5 p.m.
It's the time of year when animal-human encounters are on the rise. Bears are picnicking on hikers, moose are invading trailer parks, and muskrats are blamed for destroying entire towns. You could be next.
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Posted Tue, Jun 10, 10 a.m.
Researchers in Snohomish County estimate that pets there account for waste equivalent to a city of 32,000. That's a lot of nasty bacteria in surface-water runoff.
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Posted Wed, May 21, 11 p.m.
Seattle's Landmarks Board greenlights the demolition of Ballard's Googie landmark. The decision leaves a lot of wreckage in its wake.
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The debate about a 13-year-old sailor girl who wants to go around the world solo.
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Selling the virtues of cremation in a recession: cheap, green, and liberating.
MOREPosted Thu, Jun 18, 6 a.m.
Just what is Seattle's favorite, indigenous hot dog of choice?
MOREPosted Mon, Jun 15, 4 p.m.
Seattle scores high on another list of top places to visit.
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It's one thing to doubt the existence of God, but this?
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A story about old growth on a young man. Portland claims to be the beardiest city in the Northwest, so how come the World Beard Champion is from Olympia?
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A Washington place name proposal that could make a mark in latte land.
MOREPosted Thu, Jan 1, 4:50 p.m.
2009 starts with a bang in terms of Nazi stories, which were a strong theme in 2008 too. In addition, we gained insights into the similar reading habits of Bush and Hitler.
MOREPosted Wed, Dec 3, 3 p.m. 2008
The story of the Federal Way kid who returned $10,000 he found in a bathroom makes its way into the national mania for polls. Are you ethical? (Yes or no.)
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