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Politics not as usual
A seminal campaign speech and a crisis on Wall Street mark a turning point in the national conversation, with implications far and near.
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UW will be spreading into the U District in a new way
The University of Washington has announced plans to build a lot of new student housing [http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/03/18/EcoDensity/] on the west side of its main campus, filling in parking lots and easing the space crunch for the 5,100 students who now live in dorms. There will be eight new build
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It's Sunshine Week: Do you know what your government is doing?
This is "Sunshine Week [http://www.sunshineweek.org/]," a nationwide effort to focus on open government — or the lack of it. The perfect emblem for the issue was posted by Seattle Times political reporter David Postman: a heavily redacted [http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/davidpostman/archives/
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Changing and challenging winds in the power industry
It's an awkward time in the energy business. Coal is plentiful, but coal-gas generation is carbon-spewing, and the body politic won't tolerate that. Wind is promising but might not be enough. In the midst of this transition is Energy Northwest, the public-utility consortium whose customers are still
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This marginal economy
Historic action by the Fed last week showed just how badly the home-loan crisis has affected broader financial markets. At ground zero is Seattle-based Washington Mutual, but it's far bigger than that now that the likes of Bear Stearns is teetering.