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High hoops, high hopes, and highly anticipated
Updates: The basket is briefly elevated to 11 feet, a Husky bails out of college for the NBA, and Junior is returning.
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The Seattle-area transportation proposals: a vast waste of money
Trains won't solve our problems, and we can't go back to an automobile era. The solution, unfortunately, is not on the ballot next November. That would be more buses, congestion management, and overall better use of the highways we have.
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Seattle's contradictory school-assignment proposal
'Choice' competes with 'predictability' in a proposed new plan for assigning students to buildings. And a former School Board member and journalist thinks choice, the status quo, will probably win.
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Middle class workers of the Pacific Northwest, unite!
A Seattle union rally demonstrates that liberals and labor, once ambivalent about the middle class, have now embraced it as an endangered species – and democracy's savior.
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Theodore Roethke lives through David Wagoner
Wagoner, the dean of Northwest poetry, says the most charismatic man he ever met was not Adlai Stevenson, Billy Graham, Dylan Thomas, or Ted Bundy, but Theodore Roethke. He's tried to capture that charisma in a new play about the poet, which opens at Seattle's ACT Theatre this summer.