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Published February 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
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.
Published February 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM
It was probably inevitable that a Washington Post report on congressional earmarks would turn up something on U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Belfair.
Published February 10th, 2012 - 12:05AM
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.
Published February 9th, 2012 - 12:05AM
Education reform – serious education reform – remains alive in the Legislature. No thanks to the Legislature’s education chairwomen.
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Published February 13th, 2012 - 12:05AM
It was crowded, it was smoky, and it was dark. But none of that bothered me. I was 20 years old and drinking legally.
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Published February 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney’s recent losses to Rick Santorum in Colorado, Missouri and Minnesota revealed a truism that Romney might want to study – but not too much!
Published February 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM
“One of the worries we have obviously in the next campaign is that there are so many of these so-called super PACs, these independent expenditures that are gonna be out there, there is gonna be just a lot of money floating around and I guarantee a bunch of it’s gonna be negative.”
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Published February 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM
A recent study by the University of Pennsylvania criticizing Washington’s higher education system identifies some real problems but lands wide of the mark in offering solutions. The report leaves the impression that Washington’s higher education system is fundamentally broken. We do not believe it is.
Published February 12th, 2012 - 12:05AM
With bated breath, the world’s markets recently waited for the announcement of the U.S. fourth-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate – a potential bellwether for the global economy. It turned out to be 2.8 percent.
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Published February 10th, 2012 - 12:05AM
This was the week Mitt Romney should have sealed the Republican presidential nomination. He was expected to win Tuesday’s caucuses in Colorado, to win or tie in Minnesota and to do credibly well in Missouri. Instead, the former Massa-chusetts governor managed to lose all three contests to Rick Santorum, a candidate who has spent most of the campaign stuck near the bottom of the polls.
Published February 9th, 2012 - 12:05AM
When good news happens to a bad candidate like Mitt Romney, it makes an already difficult situation worse. He has enough trouble communicating any message, much less a mixed one.
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Some blacks insist: 'I'm not African-American'
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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
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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
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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.
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