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Tunnel contract: State is the one on the hook
City Councilmember Nick Licata steps back from the fray and gets at a central fact of the tunnel cost-overrun speculation.
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Budget cuts make Washington only state without board to decide place names
The Washington Board on Geographic Names has not just been slashed from the budget, but written out of existence in Olympia, making the Evergreen State the only one without such a body. Who will keep our maps from chaos now?
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In Murray-Rossi polling, when is a blip just a blip?
Sure, it's good news for Dino Rossi that he came out on top in one recent survey, but the sample size was quite small. The real message from polling so far is about the tightness of the race.
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Expo in Shanghai: green lessons for Seattle, U.S.
The world's biggest world's fair is underway, and the U.S. media, for once, is paying attention. There's the Hillary Clinton angle, after she helped make U.S. participation happen, but this is also a fair that shows the U.S. some options for catching up with other nations on sustainability.
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How Utopian thinking leads to Seattle's gridlock
Too often, opposing civic forces are looking for perfection. But that can lead to political gridlock or, worse, unworkable compromises.