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UW graduation rates are right in the middle of peers
A gradual rise in graduation rates halted in the most recent statistics.
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Seattle's car tabs: Will residents get their money's worth?
The city knows it has a problem with deferred maintenance of streets and bridges. But the city (and we voters) keep approving new projects.
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How arts and music helped pull Seattle through hard times
When Congress cancelled the SST, plunging the local economy downward, the city turned to new ways to lift its spirits and spur its economy. The arts, especially rock and roll, were a key part of the rebound.
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Japanese lessons on the art of economic rebounding
The country struggles to recover from its lost decade and the earthquake. The Seattle economy is quite dependent on Japan, and we have lessons to learn from their strategic approaches.
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Seattle's car tab proposition lets city move ahead
Proposition 1 has taken its share of criticism, and it's not perfect. But voting against would be perfectly wrong for a city that wants to compete economically in the country and the world.