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Branch campus bingo
Communities in Snohomish County are like rabid Dawgs vying for a University of Washington branch campus. But what will they get? Here's a look at the UW branches in Bothell and Tacoma and their local imprints.
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Charles Royer: Do something about middle class housing prices
Former Seattle Mayor Charles Royer pens an interesting think-piece [http://tinyurl.com/2jnfjb] in Sunday's Seattle Times, urging us to pay more attention to the squeeze on middle class housing in high-cost Seattle. The essay is very diplomatic, as befits a former mayor, but it scores some valuable d
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The Seattle city budget is ready to pass, gladdening many hearts
The annual tango over the Seattle City Budget has followed the usual dance-steps manual, with the City Council making a few minor tweaks in Mayor Greg Nickels' budget, and declaring a sweeping victory. Most of this follows a time-honored script, where the Mayor puts in a few million dollars that can
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Genocide by any other name
A century later, a war of semantics engulfs the World War I-era banishment of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire. The urge to purge arose again, of course, on the U.S. West Coast during World War II. And generations later, people are still turning out other people. Even if they aren't killing them outr
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The FCC hearing is under way in Seattle
Opening statements by the three attending members of the Federal Communications Commission at tonight's hearing [/blog/media/8953/] in Seattle on media ownership (all PDF files): Michael Copps [http://www.fcc.gov/seattle-copps.pdf], Jonathan Adelstein [http://www.fcc.gov/seattle-adelstein.pdf], and