Culture
Praise: Wouldn't honest feedback be better?
Seattle likes to encourage its young people with unstinting praise. A Stanford psychologist's work suggests that we aren't encouraging young people that way.
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Public's taste in presidents suggests ignorance
A new poll rates the best presidents, in rather shocking order.
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Constantine brokers an artful bill to fund King County arts
The county exec cobbles together backers of the arts, tourism, the convention center, and (oddly) low-income housing, in hopes of capturing stadium taxes that might otherwise expire.
Environment
Can suburbs be reinvented for 21st century?
To make suburbs fit into modern realities, we will have to re-imagine and re-engineer them.
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City education levy: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Weighing the pluses and minuses on a big issue for children and parents helps put the upcoming campaign in perspective.