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The Parents Union: A new force for education reform?
Former Microsoft exec Scott Oki is tackling education reform through a pioneering new concept — a union for parents.
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Radiation monitoring: is public really in the loop?
When authorities sent a helicopter over Seattle and Washington state to monitor radiation, they made a point of telling us what they were doing. But how well is the public being informed either here or in post-Fukushima Japan?
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Long live Seattle's other boondoggle!
Last week's vote boosted the tunnel, but it also made it harder to rethink the 520 expansion.
Culture
The Mormons are coming!
A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.
Culture
Summit aims to help parents deal with schools
The Seattle Alliance of Black School Educators is holding an event Saturday (Aug. 20) to empower parents.