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Seattle land use: Throw out the book and start fresh
Somebody had to do it: Our intrepid author read the entire code and lived to talk about what should change. It's time to become denser.
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A modest observation about the Tea Party's economic 'thinking'
Everybody has worried about the trade deficit. Has the Tea Party come up with the answer: curing our national economic challenges by starving the middle and working classes?
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Coal port work violations being settled
State and Whatcom County officials say no long-term moratorium on development will apply.
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A reunion for the ages
The author's 60th high school reunion reminds him how America has changed (not always for the better), even while his classmates have stayed the same.
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Cutting class: Community colleges see effects of state budget cuts
Cuts to Seattle-area community colleges in the face of a contracted state budget may deal a major blow to the state's still-suffering economy.