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Sobering lessons for Puget Sound clean-up
A Washington Post story indicates that after a major multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar effort, there's little or no progress in saving Chesapeake Bay.
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Mayor Dynamite
Greg Nickels got Northgate development unstuck by blowing up the entrenched sides. But is that the best way to make friends? Or to clear icy streets?
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Please pass the (road) salt
A Seattle transplant sums up the region's snowstorm-response failings.
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Can Seattle be a Slow City?
An international movement to change the ethic of growing cities seems right for the Northwest. But we'd have to check the boom-town impulses embedded both in our growth economy and our frontier DNA.