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A dramatic vote in favor of a rail transit plan
The weight of 40 years of paralysis about transit planning played a role in the Sound Transit decision to try one more time to convince the voters of the need for more light rail.
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A better environment for a UW College of the Environment
Don't make a megalith, advises a prominent expert in forestry. Instead, think of a virtual environment with porous walls and many disciplines. The result could put the University of Washington in the lead for solving the world's environmental problems.
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How to be a modern mayor: the Denver model
Denver is about to have its 15 days of fame, as host to the Democratic National Convention next month. I suspect one star of the show will be Mayor John Hickenlooper, my idea of the best mayor in the nation. NewWest.net recently did a good interview with the mayor [http://www.newwest.net/topic/artic
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Who hosed pantyhose?
Michelle Obama's appearance on The View last month — sans pantyhose — has women debating whether to don them or diss them. Pantyhose had already become a topic of conversation on the show when Barbara Walters reluctantly stopped wearing them on the air after her co-hosts convinced her it is no longe
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Lesson in laughter
Controversy this week over the current New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/] cover, showing Barack and Michelle Obama in all the worst ways the paranoid right could imagine, proves two basic lessons from the history of journalism. The first is that a medium that is in the process of being overrun