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What America’s veterans tend to need most is quite simple: good jobs.
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If a superbug were killing more than 3,000 American teenagers a year and seriously sickening more than 300,000, parents would be screaming for something to be done to protect their children.
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Take a good look at the list to the right. Those 24 lawmakers have the power to create nearly 100,000 jobs and keep Pacific Rim shipping pouring into Puget Sound through the 21st century.
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The Washington Legislature has been wrestling lately with ways to bring down drunken driving fatalities. Now it has another option to look at.
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SUSAN GORDON
“How much is that doggie in the window? The one with the waggly tail?”
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EUGENE ROBINSON
The Obama administration has no business rummaging through journalists’ phone records, perusing their emails and tracking their movements in an attempt to keep them from gathering news. This heavy-handed business isn’t chilling, it’s just plain cold.
MICHAEL GERSON
Modern conservatism comes in two distinct architectural styles. The first seeks to build from scratch, using accurate ideological levels and plumb lines, so every wall is straight and every corner squared. The goal of politics is to apply abstract principles in their purest form.
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Back in the 1980s, educators in the Franklin Pierce School District realized there was a gulf in the way our students were being guided through middle and high school. Traditionally “college bound” kids got guidance that helped them graduate ready for the next level. Other students, often from disadvantaged backgrounds, got counseling that was aimed simply at getting them through high school without much thought toward the world beyond. They often graduated without the skills they needed, or worse, dropped out entirely.
Whenever our conversations turn to the Emergency Food Network’s “brand” in the community, we discuss the “Emergency” in our name.
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The first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at UCLA, was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea.
As a historian, I’ve spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. But as a mother, watching my son graduate from medical school Thursday, I have been awash in nostalgia all week.
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