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A policing approach that urbanists can embrace
Some police experts suggest focusing more on crime hot spots and less on citywide "beats" or 911 response times, a strategy that should appeal to advocates of urban density.
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Western Washington: How much will budget cuts change a popular university?
Reduced funding has led to talk by President Bruce Shepard of "rebasing" the university. Does this mean abandoning much of the spirit of innovation created in the school's famed Huxley and Fairhaven colleges?
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Seattle police need stronger leadership from McGinn, Diaz
New ideas can be helpful. But the only way to implement them and improve police-community relations is for the hard work of leadership to occur.
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Fear of Mormons and the new U.W. president
Fear is unjustified today, but it's a part of Pacific Northwest history. Did you know Brigham Young once considered Vancouver Island for the Mormon homeland?
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An environmental scorecard from Olympia
A major bill to allow more transfers of development rights from rural land to dense areas fares well, as does the phase-out of coal plants. But the effort to impose a tax on oil products for helping with stormwater projects around Puget Sound got little traction.