Seattle Times
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The Seattle Times is the leading daily newspaper in Seattle, Washington, United States. It began as the Seattle Press-Times, a four-page newspaper founded in 1891 with a daily circulation of 3,500, which Maine teacher and attorney Alden J. Blethen bought in 1896. Renamed the Seattle Daily Times, it doubled its circulation within half a year. By 1915, circulation stood at 70,000. As of September 2005, weekday circulation stood at 215,502. The Times is one of the few remaining major city dailies in the United States to be independently operated and owned by a local family (the Blethens). ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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The intersection of 'Obamacare' and undocumented immigrants
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Yucca Mountain as a nuclear-waste site
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First Energy gets boost from closing coal plants
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Main says violations at US coal mines down in 2011
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GOP presidential candidates turn off their own party members - The Seattle Times
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Officials: Radiation could have escaped nuke plant
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Chernobyl experts hopeful on Fukushima
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