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Tunnel contract: State is the one on the hook
City Councilmember Nick Licata steps back from the fray and gets at a central fact of the tunnel cost-overrun speculation.
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Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi
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How much time should legislators take to adopt a budget?
Media roundup: With Washington's legislature almost certain to go into a special session, commentary is focusing on the time and expense the lawmakers will use reaching agreement on a state budget.
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Seattle, Eastside rattle their pitchforks over highway 520
There's a long history behind the complaint that Seattle is always ready to delay anybody else's safety project but wants help right now for its own worries. A new mayor puts himself in the eye of a building storm of bad feelings.
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Obama in Seattle: The burden of expectations
Democrats got what they asked for in 2008. If they are surprised by the political challenges they face now, they shouldn't be.
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Listen up, Mayor. Here's a new formula for a modern police chief.
A UCLA professor lays out the case for having less crime and far fewer prisoners. The advice comes just in time for Mayor McGinn's search for a new police chief. Awkwardly, the new approach is being promoted by chief political rival Tim Burgess.