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Culture

Mission impossible? Creating a believable, funny GOP candidate

Some of the Republican candidates: Clockwise from top center: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann.

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  • Steve Clifford
/ March 6, 2012
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Politics

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

Rob McKenna

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  • Peter Jackson
/ March 5, 2012
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Politics

Norm Dicks and 'The Great Consensus'

Our amazingly stable politics, built on figures like Congressman Dicks, the Cold War economy, and the Democratic coalition of interests in Olympia, is busting apart, like an ice-bound river. Watch out...

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  • David Brewster
/ March 4, 2012
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Politics

Voters expect Olympia, D.C. to get to work

Washington Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane.

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  • Ted Van Dyk
/ March 4, 2012
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Environment

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

Northern Spotted Owl

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  • Peter Jackson
/ February 29, 2012
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Politics

Democrats could lose their gains on social issues quickly

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to take on a big question of justice and civil rights: affirmative action. Politicians in both parties should be careful, but Democrats have particular reason to be...

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  • Ted Van Dyk
/ February 22, 2012
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Tech

Midday Scan: Tacoma's fall from grace; the faulty titles of politicians; and poverty's latest drug

Rick Santorum speaking in Florida (2011).

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  • Zachariah Bryan
/ February 22, 2012
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Politics

Why the free pass for Obama on gay marriage?

President Obama delivers the 2012 State of the Union address to Congress.

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  • John Carlson
/ February 21, 2012
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Politics

McGinn, Constantine score even before they score an arena

Mayor Mike McGinn and County Executive Dow Constantine discuss a plan for a new arena in Seattle during a Feb. 16 press conference.

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  • Knute Berger
/ February 16, 2012
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Politics

Inside Politics, 2012: Can Republicans control Legislature? Races look tight

Washington State Capitol

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  • Chris Vance
/ February 13, 2012
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Culture

Winners and Losers: Santorum up, along with McGinn and Maureen Walsh, GOP's voice of gay-marriage compassion

Mayor Mike McGinn discusses winter storm planning (October, 2011).

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  • Knute Berger
/ February 12, 2012
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Culture

House marriage vote and the GOP mom who backed it

Rep. Maureen Walsh, R-Walla Walla

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  • John Stang
/ February 8, 2012
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Politics

Republicans are helping Democrats with focus on social issues

Rick Santorum

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  • Ted Van Dyk
/ February 8, 2012
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Politics

Inside Politics, 2012: How Obama helps Washington D's, and Romney can help the R's

Despite the looming government shutdown, not much happened in Olympia over the weekend.

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  • Chris Vance
/ February 7, 2012
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Politics

Komen fight opens door to election showdown on women's rights

Paul Ryan, center left, and Mitt Romney campaign in Virginia.

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  • Floyd McKay
/ February 6, 2012
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