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Pete Jackson

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Pete Jackson, is a journalist with deep ties to the Northwest and a former gubernatorial speechwriter. You can reach him in care of editor@crosscut.com.

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Seattle church had supported Guantanamo detainee who died

Wed, Sep 12, 12:01 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Liquor and Big Oil join Tim Eyman as bedfellows

Tue, Jun 12, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Shell Oil and Greenpeace face off over Alaskan oil in Elliott Bay

Mon, Jun 11, noon

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Midday Scan: Sen. Maria Cantwell, defender of pocketbooks

Fri, Jun 8, 1:52 p.m.

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Midday Scan: The schizophrenic SPD-DOJ love story

Thu, Jun 7, 11:55 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Tuition lesson at UW

Wed, Jun 6, 11:34 a.m.

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Midday Scan: DUI arrest unearths bad egg in Seattle police force

Mon, Jun 4, 10:55 a.m.

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Midday Scan: It's Friday; time for Washington to get liquored up

Fri, Jun 1, 2:50 p.m.

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Midday Scan: Are guns really the only problem?

Wed, May 30, 12:11 p.m.

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Midday Scan: Seattle's new gun problem proves bullets don't discriminate

Tue, May 29, 11:10 a.m.

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Thursday Scan: Suzan DelBene's latest campaign strategy: write checks.

Thu, May 24, 2:19 p.m.

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Wednesday Scan: Charter school initiative rises from the dead; 520 workers drink on the job

Wed, May 23, 11:24 a.m.

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Tuesday's Scan: Costco? Who says we're from Costco?

Tue, May 22, 11 a.m.

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Monday Scan: Mother nature at risk in Northwest, Alaska

Mon, May 21, 11:19 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Mayor McGinn to DOJ: We don't need your help

Fri, May 18, 11:25 a.m.

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Thursday Scan: McGinn pooh-poohs DOJ "shadow mayor" proposal

Thu, May 17, 11:07 a.m.

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Wednesday Scan: WA's last few pro-conservation Republicans

Wed, May 16, 3:40 p.m.

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Midday Scan Tuesday: A city with police troubles? Portland

Tue, May 15, 2:38 p.m.

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Midday Scan Monday: Races for governor, Congress in play

Mon, May 14, 11:10 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Obama affirms same-sex marriage, Mckenna prepares to eat his words

Thu, May 10, 12:13 p.m.

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Midday Scan: Good schools still go where the money is

Wed, May 9, 1:35 p.m.

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Midday Scan: Taking stands: RFK on coal, Methodists on gays

Tue, May 8, 11:06 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Exec's office played politics on Snohomish County time

Mon, May 7, 11:10 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Is Lisa Brown eyeing the governorship?

Fri, May 4, 11:06 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Leaving school funding to the next governor

Thu, May 3, 11:30 a.m.

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Midday Scan: For a peaceful protest, don't invite anarchists

Wed, May 2, 11:47 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Here's to the new supe, again picked as the only option

Mon, Apr 30, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Jay Inslee's self-dealing campaign rebates

Fri, Apr 27, 11:14 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Mini-mart liquor rears its head in Washington

Thu, Apr 26, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Washington's surprising gun-toting frenzy

Wed, Apr 25, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Boeing's make-up gift to Everett

Tue, Apr 24, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Spokane makes a grab for SLU's medical chops

Mon, Apr 23, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Seattle Cathedral passes on marriage petition gathering

Thu, Apr 12, 11 a.m.

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Crosscut: a Northwest incubator

Wed, Apr 11, 2 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Why Hemingway would have tut-tutted the Wash. legislature

Tue, Apr 10, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Server farms are powering up high-polluting backups

Mon, Apr 9, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Are Seattle school supporters too embarrassing to show a school candidate?

Thu, Apr 5, 11:25 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Ms get political about new arena plan

Wed, Apr 4, 11:08 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Is Frank Chopp the budget roadblock?

Tue, Apr 3, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Amazon takes center stage for 'Times' series

Mon, Apr 2, 11:17 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The history-in-the-news edition

Fri, Mar 30, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Marriage equality opponents divide and conquer in national campaign

Wed, Mar 28, 11:19 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Washington 'a profile in female-political representation'

Tue, Mar 27, 11:10 a.m.

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Midday Scan: McKenna's burden vs. Inslee's slow start

Mon, Mar 26, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Allen's generosity; creativity in budgeting; backpedaling for anti-abortion legislators

Thu, Mar 22, 12:02 p.m.

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Midday Scan: A super-green building for Seattle; tax windfall from pot sales; PTSD questions

Wed, Mar 21, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Attack of the ultrasound lobby; OR as political bellwether; Reuven Carlyle's personal blog

Tue, Mar 20, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: War criminal or victim?; OR Dem crosses the aisle; Uneasy silence from Eyman

Mon, Mar 19, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The GOP as Don Draper; Reardon's new accuser; Congressperson for a month?

Fri, Mar 16, 11:14 a.m.

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Midday Scan: WA's child shooting backlash; Gay marriage repeal goes grassroots; Obama's Washingtonian friends

Thu, Mar 15, 11:11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A bold move for human rights; gay marriage scores; Inslee dodges special election

Wed, Mar 14, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Inslee draws fire; City Light experiments in Ballard; Divorce Alaska-style

Tue, Mar 13, 3:16 p.m.

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Midday Scan: State GOP outs itself on education

Wed, Mar 7, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The budget coup edition

Tue, Mar 6, 10:57 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Olympia D's enter hell's final circle; why Romney won; and snow makes a new ballot run

Mon, Mar 5, 11 a.m.

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MIdday Scan: Dicks departs; Saturday's vote; Olympia approaching the wire

Fri, Mar 2, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A freshman mistake for lawmakers; zombie Kucinich; cheapskates anonymous

Thu, Mar 1, 11:18 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Shooting owls to save owls; twisting the marriage ballot wording; rare win on open records

Wed, Feb 29, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: State Senate unveils its funny-numbers budget; feds shadow pot vote; McGinn right on tunnel?

Tue, Feb 28, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gregoire prepping for Obama post; a revival option for Inslee; abortion coverage

Mon, Feb 27, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Reardon as roadblock; Plan B ruling blocks state; Hanauer pushes Democrats

Thu, Feb 23, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Oregon lawmakers stall; Idaho's legislators outpace Washington on tanning beds; GOP v. women?

Tue, Feb 21, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Arena as circus; money for lawmakers; GOP's remarkable demographics

Fri, Feb 17, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Reardon's campaigning on county dime; GOP warming to banker tax; dawning of real school reform?

Thu, Feb 16, 11:21 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Attack on marriage equality runs against state history; Santorum rallies troops; Obama to Everett

Tue, Feb 14, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Santorum to rain on marriage; the blessings of fewer kids in schools; auditing Sound Transit

Mon, Feb 13, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Inslee, McKenna throw FB punches on mortgages; state cuts hurting women; a new downtown Seattle school?

Fri, Feb 10, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gay marriage's econo-benefits; a resurgence of NW crazies; and an abortion-free North Pole

Thu, Feb 9, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Ed Murray into the lion's den on taxes; new shot at light rail to Federal Way

Tue, Feb 7, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Internationalizing at UW; saving useless tax breaks

Mon, Feb 6, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Outside groups lining up on marriage; Olympia may expand secrecy

Fri, Feb 3, 11:02 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Commitment time for gay lovers? Bellevue raiding Seattle schools? Higher ed for Olympia's dullards

Thu, Feb 2, 10:45 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Oregon election; marriage vote; understanding Amazon?

Wed, Feb 1, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: UW losing faculty; Cantwell's cash; Republicans for pot

Tue, Jan 31, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: UW prez blasts U.S. prez; legislators like election day registration; homeless booted

Mon, Jan 30, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: No secrets for McKenna, Inslee on marriage vote; guilt by association in Oregon

Fri, Jan 27, 11:06 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Will GOP candidates flock here? How to insult a Democrat. And gimme back my prayer card!

Thu, Jan 26, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gay marriage! Religious sensitivities clash and a kill-joy referendum looms

Tue, Jan 24, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: New storm damage to 'Kalakala'; Archbishop tries to raise storm against gay marriage

Mon, Jan 23, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Wichita bitter at Boeing; Microsoft backs marriage bill; Inslee and McKenna's tax stands

Fri, Jan 20, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Mighty McGinn the Snow Fighter; and LA calls us 'wimps'; and Olympia looks at capital gains tax

Thu, Jan 19, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Seattle's weather superhero, Gregoire names 1 percenters UW Regents, The GOP initiative myth debunked

Wed, Jan 18, 11:03 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A Washington bank, cross-examining tax breaks, Sam Hunt's Costco vendetta

Tue, Jan 17, 7:40 p.m.

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Midday Scan: Congressional jockeying accelerates; Egan reflects on Rainier tragedy

Fri, Jan 13, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A farewell to Arun Raha; AP's rosy look at gay marriage; Nickels back in the saddle

Thu, Jan 12, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Washington charter schools? Taxing oil companies? Olympia gets busy

Wed, Jan 11, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Legislators killing higher ed; legislators squabbling; Eyman preparing to legislate

Tue, Jan 10, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gay marriage's unlikely opponent; Heroism on Rainier; Mt. Adams' shrinking glaciers

Mon, Jan 9, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Farewell to Hirabayashi; Santorum's little Google problem; Gregoire embraces gay marriage

Wed, Jan 4, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gun fire and ice; defining budget cuts; get ready for 2012 voting

Tue, Jan 3, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: NW Year in Review

Fri, Dec 30, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The redistricting edition

Thu, Dec 29, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A new UW model; 2011's worst political gaffes; still no cheap liquor

Wed, Dec 28, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Face the tolls or trolls will bring tickets; Reichert goes with Tea Party crowd

Fri, Dec 23, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: McGinn gets religion; Serial killer's 'victim' reappears; Too fat for the ferry

Thu, Dec 22, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Losing plastic bags? Fine. But losing David Horsey? Oh, no

Tue, Dec 20, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Police dodging; Legislature pockets school funds; Newt and NW

Mon, Dec 19, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Forceful report on police; pay as you go for initiatives?

Fri, Dec 16, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Special session flickers out; Bipartisan medicare reform?; The Barefoot Bandit's PTSD

Thu, Dec 15, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Boeing's early Christmas present; Seattle Schools' debt crisis; Oregon's newest celebrity

Tue, Dec 13, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Inslee's inconvenient truth; Locke tells truth in China; school's junk food policy doubted

Mon, Dec 12, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Everett's pulpy heartache; Larsen's Twitter debacle; Liquor takes a legal hit

Fri, Dec 9, 11:13 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The Boeing-Machinist marriage; Obama's no Teddy; Special session blues

Thu, Dec 8, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Viaduct museum; see you in court over liquor jobs; Kalakala's 'significance'

Wed, Dec 7, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Coveting tribes' gains; looking busy in Olympia; Everett probers

Tue, Dec 6, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Reardon's lame excuses; the Canada conundrum; a farewell to Joan Thomas

Mon, Dec 5, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Metro OK's 'Buy Local', Tacoma Narrows photo tolling, Alaska is melting

Fri, Dec 2, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Boeing and union together again; Nick Hanauer on the rich as squirrels

Thu, Dec 1, 11:26 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Salmon anemia's smoking gun; Protestors vs. Legislators; Daily Kos backs Darcy Burner

Wed, Nov 30, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Occupy's Olympia debut; UCLA sacks Rick Neuheisel; U of O sinks into mediocrity

Tue, Nov 29, 10:29 a.m.

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Midday Scan: WA's faux center party; Special session blues; Death row jujitsu

Mon, Nov 28, 11:07 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Kitzhaber says 'no'; Occupy vs. Black Friday; Gregoire draws line

Wed, Nov 23, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Gregoire thinks small; Murray blames GOP

Tue, Nov 22, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Patty Murray and blame game; 'middling' legislators vs. UW; Stamper's 'confession'

Mon, Nov 21, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: upsetting more than 1 percent of commuters; UW provost pick; foreign students

Fri, Nov 18, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: the zen of desiring Boeing; Doril Rainey, 84, rules; all-games trips by Sno County exec?

Thu, Nov 17, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Edmonds tackles insider trading, pot raids signal legalization, paper v. plastic debunked

Wed, Nov 16, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Occupy goes rude in Seattle, crude in Portland; Court could sway Inslee-McKenna

Tue, Nov 15, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: A local try at reforming Congress' ethics; Border Patrol amok; initiative issues

Mon, Nov 14, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Eyman picks off red-light cams; Amazon on taxes; tuition qualms

Thu, Nov 10, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Liquor for all, Snohomish County's landslide, Oregon's children left behind

Wed, Nov 9, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Election day tidbits; liberating school newspapers; Occupying the city council's brains.

Tue, Nov 8, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Geezers rule, initiatives lie, salmon ail, and Rooney rants

Mon, Nov 7, 10 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Pacific garbage heap hits home, the capital gains tax silver bullet, Snohomish misspending

Fri, Nov 4, 11 a.m.

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Midday Scan: The impotent candidate, Gregoire coddles corporations, salmon anemia gets serious

Thu, Nov 3, 11 a.m.

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Midday scan Wednesday: pot reform money; racing a fish virus; hopes in job darkness.

Wed, Nov 2, 11 a.m.

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Midday scan: Union job cuts, snarky Snohomish politics, WA schools' questionable mental health policy

Tue, Nov 1, 10:59 a.m.

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Midday Scan: Friday's top stories around the region

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Tale of 2 Seattles: Obama mixes in very different settings

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Llew Pritchard and the call for human rights

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Midday Scan: today's top stories around the region

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Super Committee: results to match the name?

Wed, Aug 17, 2 a.m.

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Water fights

Thu, Jul 28, 9:26 p.m.

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'Today, we are all Norwegian'

Tue, Jul 26, 2 a.m.

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