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Retailers who hope to make money by selling alcohol to Washington residents once the state gets out of liquor sales June 1 now are trying to change the rules of the game that led to privatization.
This seems a timely moment to lift a glass and toast a rising star in the state’s economy – the Washington wine industry.
In an ideal, green-hued world, stopping the Keystone XL pipeline would accomplish what many of the project’s opponents believe it will accomplish.
In 1898, Pacific Lutheran University was in such dire financial straits that its first president – Bjug Harstad – headed off to Alaska for a year and a half hoping to find enough gold to bail out the school. He found none.
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn has had his goofy moments in office, but he’s done nothing to deserve having his windows shattered with rocks while his wife and children were home Tuesday night.
What’s worse: raping a child, or paying someone else to do it?
The era of tight budgets and declining revenues has had at least one positive side effect: It’s forced many public agencies to rethink their old fiefdom mentalities and focus on how they can partner to provide services in economical ways that don’t overlap.
One of the strangest political utterances this year was Rick Santorum’s claim that it was snobbery – on the part of Barack Obama – to encourage all American students to continue their educations after high school.
Three years ago, the manager of Tacoma’s convention center was so concerned about the facility’s financial condition that he wondered whether he should start preparing to shut it down.
The battles, the bombings and the arguments over Afghanistan’s future often overshadow the country’s most threatened population: women.
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This year’s political argument over same-sex marriage is already divisive; it shouldn’t have to be confusing to boot.
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Going to the senior prom didn’t used to be a budget buster.
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School is supposed to be a safe harbor for students, not a place where sex predators can connect with them while posing as normal students. But that’s a real risk in Washington schools, as an outrageous Clark County case shows.
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Despite strong circumstantial evidence in the December 2009 disappearance of Susan Cox Powell, authorities in West Valley City, Utah, never filed any charges against the only person they say they suspected: her husband, Josh Charles.
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The Democratic and Libertarian parties are taking another hard legal swing – maybe their last – at the state’s top two primary. We hope it connects.
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