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New panhandling laws aren't needed in Seattle
Councilmember Tim Burgess has put together a good public-safety package. But the one idea attracting the most attention won't help.
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As the gray wolf recovers, who are its friends?
The species is back in parts of the state. But can a recovering species return to the Olympic Peninsula?
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Updated: Olympia about to renege again on funding King County arts groups
4Culture has been patiently playing the legislative game, hoping to nail-down its visitor-tax funding. For the sixth straight year, it's being stood up at the altar.
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American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse
What are we to do about the nuclear ambitions of an tyrannically run country, with an oppressive record of human rights violations? How about treating it as an sovereign state with the same rights as our country?
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Did Democrats make health care harder than necessary?
In the 1960s, the Senate required 67 votes to break a filibuster, not today's 60. Yet, the more emotional Civil Rights Act carried passed; the White House took a stronger hand in drafting it and worked with Republicans from the start.