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Rick Steves knows how to push pot to voters
Rick Steves has changed the way middle America sees the world through his European guidebooks, tours, columns, PBS television and
Knute Berger
Knute “Mossback” Berger is an editor-at-large and host of "Mossback’s Northwest" at Cascade PBS. He writes about politics and regional heritage.
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A venture capitalist and a socialist are exporting Seattle's progressivism
Seattle has long exported jets, software, music and Kindles. Now the city is in a new phase of exporting: pushing
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Oregon occupiers aside, there's restlessness about West's governance
The occupation of Malheur National Wildlife refuge in southern Oregon has generated national attention to rural angst and the revolutionary
What's in a name? Further reflections on Puget Sound
My recent story on how a “the” seems to keep cropping up in front of the name “Puget Sound” generated
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Seattle's real fear of change: loss of the middle class
Seattle’s bedrock is slipping. No, it’s not a subduction zone, but perhaps a subtraction one. Nationally, the middle-class