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With Gov. Chris Gregoire’s signature, Washington today becomes the seventh state to recognize gay marriage. It’s a historic day for same-sex couples seeking equal treatment under the law for their relationships.
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It was probably inevitable that a Washington Post report on congressional earmarks would turn up something on U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair.
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It’s hard to believe, but there is a bright side to the tawdry tale of a Lakewood police officer accused of embezzling money meant for the families of four murdered fellow officers.
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Education reform – serious education reform – remains alive in the Legislature. No thanks to the Legislature’s education chairwomen.
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We’re all guilty of it – squirreling leftover medicine away on the off chance we might need it someday. When we go to use it, we discover it’s years past its expiration date. So we dump it in the garbage can or, if we’re feeling more responsible, flush it down the toilet.
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‘There but for the grace of God,” is a conventional and charitable attitude toward people who get in trouble with the law. The idea is that good guys and bad guys share a common humanity that the good guys do well to ack-nowledge.
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As state lawmakers grapple with how to close a $1 billion-plus budget gap, one place they’ve been looking for savings is the Special Commitment Center for violent sex predators on McNeil Island.
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Higher education must bear its share of the pain as the Legislature squeezes another billion-plus dollars out of the current state budget. It should not bear more than its share.
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Mitt Romney doesn’t care about “the very poor”? He’s not alone.
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It took Richard Nixon to go to China, Bill Clinton to reform welfare and state Rep. Jeannie Darneille to push House Bill 2588.
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Some Federal Way-area officials are so unhappy with Sound Transit that they’re contemplating secession from the tri-county transportation agency. There’s no mechanism for such a move, but that’s not stopping them from talking about it.
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Here’s an unfortunate but inescapable reality: The world will burn petroleum for decades to come.
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It doesn’t take a financial genius to understand that there’s no better time than the present to get moving on construction projects: Interest rates are low, and contractors are eager for the work.
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A genuinely good idea tends to pop out from among the nondescript crowd of been-theres and done-thats. State Sen. Derek Kilmer’s proposal to create jobs without new taxes looks like that kind of idea.
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As the Washington Supreme Court pointed out earlier this month, the state is failing in its “paramount duty” to amply fund education. The court ordered the state Legislature to figure out how to resolve that situation.
What We're Reading
- Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
- google.com
- Cheryl Tucker says: Interesting look at how time and culture have changed the way Americans of African descent have labeled themselves: as black, Afro American, Negro, African American or ...?
- Callista Gingrich, the transformational wife
- New York Times
- Cheryl Tucker says: A big part of Newt's problem is that a lot of people just can't imagine his wife as first lady. As Maureen Dowd puts it, she "is the embodiment of the divide between Gingrichs public piety and private immorality."
- Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In
- Atlantic
- Cheryl Tucker says: Good background piece by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg on how the Komen foundation made one of the worst PR blunders in memory.
