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Imagine Pierce County without volunteers and donors.
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It took four months of dithering and denial, but the 2012 Legislature actually produced a respectable spending plan on Wednesday. With a few bonuses thrown in.
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State Sen. Joe Zarelli has been taking some cheap shots over the past few days over what should be a non-issue: the benefits he receives as a partially disabled Navy veteran.
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While we’re talking about the state Senate, let’s note some real hypocrisy in that chamber: the matter of Sen. Pam Roach.
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Exactly what happened the moment George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla., the night of Feb. 26 isn’t much clearer now than it was six weeks ago.
ROBERT J. SAMUELSON; THE WASHINGTON POST
WASHINGTON – Would Franklin Roosevelt approve of Social Security? The question seems absurd. After all, Social Security is considered the New Deal’s signature achievement. It distributes nearly $800 billion a year to 56 million retirees, survivors and disabled beneficiaries. On average, retired workers and spouses receive $1,839 a month – money vital to the well-being of millions. Roosevelt would surely be proud of this, and yet he might also have reservations. Social Security has evolved into something he never intended and actively opposed.
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Voters in Eatonville, Auburn, Gig Harbor and Federal Way should have received their ballots by now for the April 17 special election. They’re being asked to fund school operations, roads, and fire and emergency service.
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The people who read these pages hail from dozens of faiths, including Judaism and Islam, and many others are nonbelievers. They don’t look here for homilies.
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America’s old garrets and gables are haunted by 130,000 more ghosts than we thought, it appears.
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That cough you hear could be a symptom of an epidemic that is gripping the state – whooping cough, or pertussis.
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Washingtonians beware. The incentives to buy justice with campaign dollars are so great that it’s only a matter of time before the new super PACs come shopping for Supreme Court seats in Olympia.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Even so, one can’t help but think that Utah police mishandled the case of the 2009 disappearance – and presumed murder – of Susan Powell.
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Pierce County stands to lose a lot if catastrophic flooding hit its rivers – more than $725 million, estimates a consulting firm that specializes in environmental risk management.
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Too many cheap explanations are being tossed around for the March 11 massacre of what appears to be 17 innocent villagers in Afghanistan. As a result, untold thousands of combat veterans risk getting indirectly smeared.
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Consider this scenario: You apply for a job. Your prospective employer shows up on your doorstep and tells you the only way you’ll be considered is if you let him go through the mail that comes to your home for the next month.
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Ask George Zimmerman – if you can find him – if he still thinks it was a great idea to pack heat while doing neighborhood watch patrols in Sanford, Fla. This wannabe police officer may be rethinking the whole idea of looking for trouble with a lethal weapon at hand.
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With its huge opening last week, “The Hunger Games” is a bona fide film phenomenon. What’s important to remember is the driving force behind that popularity: Suzanne Collins’ trilogy that has enthralled young readers – and a lot of not-so-young ones as well.
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There are jillions of opinions about the constitutionality of the individual health insurance mandate, but only one of them will ultimately count – the opinion signed by the majority of the justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Green space is at a premium in downtown Tacoma, with few places where downtown workers and students can sit out on a nice day and maybe eat a sack lunch in the sunshine.
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For a sobering observation about student debt, it’s hard to beat this:
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Last year at this time, the Tacoma Art Museum was showing works by Norman Rockwell. Some in the arts community sniffed that his nostalgic view of America was less art than illustration – even “kitsch.”
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When the Stryker “kill team” arrests and prosecutions were in the news, Joint Base Lewis-McChord started getting labeled: “most troubled” base, “base on the brink” and even “rogue.”
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All over the country, pension systems for public workers are in trouble. Many are woefully underfunded. Nationally the deficit was $1 trillion at the end of 2008, and it’s been widening since as baby boom workers retired in growing numbers and the recession battered investment funds.
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Individual soldiers have their breaking points. So do armies.
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The Washington Supreme Court has spoken, and opponents of red-light cameras don’t like what it had to say.
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We’d love to see a happy compromise between the budget-writers of the state Senate and House, who’ve come up with starkly different spending plans to carry the state government through the end of the biennium.
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The Tacoma City Council is moving quietly and quickly toward an increase in the city’s sales tax. It ought to be moving noisily and slowly.
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The shocking spate of shootings in the last three weeks that have left two young children dead and another gravely injured should be a wakeup call to gun owners: Unload and secure your weapons, even if you’re only leaving them for a few minutes, if there’s any chance children might gain access to them.
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Pierce County officials probably can’t propose this deal, so we will: If embattled Assessor-Treasurer Dale Washam agrees to go on paid administrative lead for the duration of his term, the county will continue paying his legal costs.
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Try reasonable middle way to license illegal immigrants
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One issue that has arisen in the state gubernatorial race is whether people seeking driver’s licenses should have to prove legal residency. Washington is one of only two states – New Mexico is the other – that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain unrestricted driver’s licenses – ones that can be used for personal identification purposes.
Attorney General Rob McKenna, a Republican, wants applicants to show Social Security documentation in order to be licensed to drive. His opponent, Democrat Jay Inslee, isn’t ready to go there.
Inslee is right – to a point. Requiring …
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