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Want to help school kids? Here are two places to start
Educators, politicians, philanthropists and parents should start with the basic values of family reading time and old-fashioned hard work.
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Battle of the (bag) bans
Bellingham ponders becoming the second city in Washington to outlaw plastic shopping bags.
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Dreams of more irrigation meet the environmental questions
In Eastern Washington, decades of irrigation are depleting the Odessa Aquifer. Should the state and federal government lead a rescue built around what has been called "the big fix" of diverting even more river water for farming?
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Education 'group think' gets in the way of teaching kids to read
School administrators should end their obsession with average test scores and focus instead on an absolute standard: Can each child actually read?
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An irrigation project with New Deal echoes blooms in Eastern Washington
Anti-tax sentiment may have taken hold in much of the country, including east of the Cascades. But a stimulus-package irrigation project is reopening discussion of much-larger work.