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In his speech Thursday on national security, President Barack Obama said the right things about the media’s role as government watchdogs. Now the question is whether his administration’s actions will connect to his words.
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Three-and-a-half years after it started, the most heart-wrenching missing person investigation in Pierce County’s history may have come to an end. And Susan Cox Powell’s remains have yet to be found.
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Viewing the swath of total destruction left by Monday’s tornado in Moore, Okla., it’s hard to believe anyone could have survived. But as of this writing, the death toll was a surprisingly low 24 – that is expected to rise – even though the twister was a mile-wide, top-of-the-scale EF5 with winds of more than 200 mph.
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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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From the shores of Commencement Bay to the foothills of Mount Rainier, more opportunities for recreation are falling into place.
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Here’s what you don’t do if an IRS division is discovered to be singling out the political opposition: Sit on the explosive information for at least two years, and let the abuses fester in the meantime.
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One of the deeper mysteries facing a patient who’s entered the bewildering labyrinth of the hospital world is why — after he’s discharged — those nice people send him a bill high enough to empty his 401k.
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Nothing better sums up the military’s problem regarding sexual assault than the mug shot of Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski.
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Warning: You’re in for a sexist ride in this editorial. Sorry, guys.
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OK, that headline is a little deceptive. The offices that will be on the Aug. 6 primary and Nov. 6 general election ballots are, for the most part, the kind of local positions where people make the nuts-and-bolts decisions for cities, schools and other bodies.
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There it is, buried deep in a seemingly routine annual report the Pentagon has just released: The Chinese government has been carrying out cyber-raids on the U.S. government.
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Opponents of same-sex marriage have rallied around a Richland florist who is being sued by the state attorney general’s office and the ACLU for refusing to provide flowers for a gay couple’s wedding. But the core issue isn’t same-sex marriage; it’s the consumer’s right not to face discrimination.
