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var _NTW_stories = [{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Gregoire proposes legislation to legalize gay marriage","url":"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2017157564_gregoire_to_introduce_gay_marr.html","date":"2012/01/04","id":8497083,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"\"It's time, it's the right thing to do, and I will introduce a bill to do it,\" Gregoire said in a statement.\n\n\"Our gay and lesbian families face the same hurdles as heterosexual families -- making ends meet, choosing what school to send their kids to, finding someone to grow old with, standing in front of friends and family and making a lifetime commitment,\" Gregoire said. \"For all couples, a state marriage license is very important. It gives them the right to enter into a marriage contract in which their legal interests, and those of their children if any, are protected by well-established civil law.\"","authors":"Andrew Garber","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Seattle Times","framebuster":false,"id":"seattle_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"1","title":"Costly sewer program may have little benefit","url":"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015778941_overflows31m.html","date":"2011/07/31","id":7372695,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Seattle and King County propose spending more than $1.3 billion on combined sewer overflows, raising rates that already are among the highest in the country. Yet it will make little difference to the water quality of Puget Sound.","authors":"Lynda V. Mapes","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Seattle Times","framebuster":false,"id":"seattle_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.1","num_reviews":"2","title":"Washington state suspends 2012 presidential primary","url":"http://wtaq.com/news/articles/2011/may/12/washington-state-suspends-2012-presidential-primar/","date":"2011/05/13","id":6261437,"story_type":"News","quote":"Washington became the first U.S. state to suspend its 2012 presidential primary election on Thursday, a move signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire to save some $10 million from the state budget.","authors":"Laura L. Myersoe","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"Reuters","framebuster":true,"id":"reuters","ownership":"ind","type":"wire","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.6","num_reviews":"7","title":"Another Triumph for the Greens","url":"http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/another-triumph-greens_536862.html","date":"2011/01/26","id":4974552,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"To go with toilets that don\u2019t flush and light bulbs that don\u2019t light, we now have dishwashers that don\u2019t wash.","authors":"Jonathan V. Last","source":{"rating":"2.8","name":"Weekly Standard","framebuster":true,"id":"weekly_standard","ownership":"ind","type":"magazine","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.4","num_reviews":"4","title":"Bomb at MLK parade sophisticated","url":"http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5io6mwyUU9cT9ZyMDY_OOIzdAqb_A?docId=7e621f4980b9477fbf042f55cb234c1e","date":"2011/01/19","id":4884331,"story_type":"News","quote":"A bomb left at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane was sophisticated, with a remote detonator and the ability to cause many casualties, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.","authors":"","source":{"rating":"3.4","name":"Associated Press","framebuster":true,"id":"associated_press","ownership":"ind","type":"wire","is_public":true}},{"rating":"3.6","num_reviews":"1","title":"2010 Media Follies!","url":"http://www.eatthestate.org/2010-media-follies/","date":"2011/01/03","id":4696473,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Welcome to this 15th annual selection of a few of the year\u2019s most over-hyped and underreported local stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse, and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America\u2019s addiction to trivial distractions can withstand any assault from economic hardship\u2013or from reality.","authors":"Maria Tomchick","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"eatthestate.org","framebuster":false,"id":"eatthestate_org","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"3.4","num_reviews":"2","title":"Metro says nevermind to 'Israeli war crimes' ads","url":"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013753552_busads24m.html","date":"2010/12/24","id":4574138,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"In a reversal of an earlier decision, Metro Transit said Thursday it would not allow a bus ad alleging \"Israeli war crimes,\" saying a flood of comments has convinced officials that service could be disrupted.\n\nThe ad, purchased by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, ties alleged Israeli war crimes to U.S. military aid. The ad had been set to run for a month on the sides of 12 buses starting next week.","authors":"Janet I. Tu","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Seattle Times","framebuster":false,"id":"seattle_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"2.0","num_reviews":"0","title":"Election 2010: WA State Voters Continue to Want Govt. Services, But Don't Want to Pay for Them","url":"http://blog.seattlepi.com/trevorgriffey/archives/227025.asp","date":"2010/11/03","id":3936290,"story_type":"News Analysis","quote":"Looking at the election results, it seems to me that the majority of voters are neither left nor right, or perhaps they are both at once in ways that don't easily fit with either major political party's claims. Washington state voters have consistently voted for maintaining government services, but show caution to the point of hostility to creating new ones. At the same time, voters have consistently opposed paying taxes needed to maintain current levels of government services (other than special levies for education and public safety), but show caution to the point of hostility to cutting government spending when the resulting cuts are made known (as with I-745 and I-1033).","authors":"Trevor Griffey","source":{"rating":"0.0","name":"seattlepi.com","framebuster":false,"id":"seattlepi_com","ownership":"","type":""}},{"rating":"4.0","num_reviews":"3","title":"Rethinking squatters' mentality","url":"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2013181519_danny17.html","date":"2010/10/17","id":3720539,"story_type":"Opinion","quote":"Remember the squatters? They took over an opulent Kirkland mansion last summer and lived it up for two weeks before the main instigator, a woman named Jill Lane, was hauled off in handcuffs for trespassing.  Her tale seemed too sensational to take seriously. She insisted she wasn't in it for money, but to make a political point: That the banks, in their frenzy to profit off the long-popped real-estate bubble, had lost track of who owns what.","authors":"Danny Westneat","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Seattle Times","framebuster":false,"id":"seattle_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}},{"rating":"4.5","num_reviews":"2","title":"Undisclosed donors pump millions into state campaigns","url":"http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013135675_campaignads12m.html","date":"2010/10/11","id":3660000,"story_type":"News Report","quote":"A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters.","authors":"Jonathan Martin","source":{"rating":"3.7","name":"Seattle Times","framebuster":false,"id":"seattle_times","ownership":"ind","type":"newspaper","is_public":true}}]