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How upgrading workers' skills can create new jobs
Washington state is already working on making that happen in the health-care field, and the concept can apply in other areas.
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Piling on: City Council set to vote on new electricity rate increase
Outgoing Mayor Greg Nickels was so offended by a nearly 14 percent rate hike last year that he refused to sign the ordinance. Then the council added another 4.5 percent hike in March, and it is set to vote this week on an additional 8.5 percent in charges.
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The unbearable lightness of Dino Rossi
Tricky suburban balancing act, rhetoric that undercut his own strengths, and a résumé that never grew helped to doom Rossi in his third statewide run.
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State GOP getting closer with suburbanites
The wave helped Republicans become competitive again, but they still are short of what's needed to win a top statewide office.
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Breakaway bike group pursues recall of Cascade's board
Leaders of the newly formed Bike Club Rescue Squad say they are 'well on our way' toward gathering some 700 signatures in its push to remove the board of the Cascade Bicycle Club.