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A fine year in local music
Familiar names and newcomers alike made big splashes in Seattle's 2010 music scene, setting the stage for a promising 2011.
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Best of 2010: Financially strapped Seattle Center is owed more than $1 million in back rent
The Children's Museum, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Intiman Theatre are the Center's largest debtors, and they're working on payment plans as the city-run Center fights its own budget battles.
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Best of 2010: The scandal of $50,000 culinary 'degrees'
Disillusioned students are speaking out against for-profit schools offering advanced degrees in culinary arts and other disciplines, and lawmakers are taking on the Wall Street bankers who are profiting.
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Bringing Seattle's global-health expertise to poor people here at home
Community health teams will soon be dispatched into poor areas of South King County, modeling global-health programs used in Africa.
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Can the state meet its mandate to find alternative energy sources?
The first target is a year away, and no one is clear how to meet it, or even to measure progress. The legislature could tweak the 2006 law that created the requirement, but previous attempts have hit political walls.