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Another Triumph for the Greens

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:40:34 -0800

Weekly Standard - By Jonathan V. Last - Jan. 26 (Opinion) - To go with toilets that don’t flush and light bulbs that don’t light, we now have dishwashers that don’t wash.

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Rethinking squatters' mentality

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Danny Westneat - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - 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.

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Putting a human face on illegal immigration

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Kaitlin Manry - Jul. 23 (Opinion) - Aberdeen's immigrants do backbreaking work tearing salal from the rainforest floor and selling the vines ($50 for a day's work) to dealers, who send them to florist shops around the country. They pound Dungeness crabs with mallets and pluck their tender meat, or shuck oysters, or slice fish. Some man ocean-bound fishing boats with names like Tricia Rae and Crystal Marie.

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Connecting the badge to the brain

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Jerry Large - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - There is a better way for police to deal with teens. It doesn't help kids, police or the community to have more incidents like the one June 14 in which a Seattle officer got into a scuffle with two teens and wound up punching one of them in the face. Brain science has made great leaps over the past decade in understanding development in young people.

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Business & Technology | Microsoft launches Office 2010 | Seattle Times Newspaper

Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - May. 19 (Opinion) - Microsoft launched Office 2010 for businesses Wednesday in New York as companies continue their climb out of a deep recession.

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Initiative 1077 would make state taxes fairer and create opportunity

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Bill Gates Sr. - Apr. 30 (Opinion) - A national study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released just a few months ago again ranked Washington state's tax code dead last — 50th out of the 50 states — in basic fairness. Yet for years we have lacked the political will to fix this problem.

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Washington state must lead on solutions to climate change

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Phil Rockefeller - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - Washington state must take leadership in finding solutions to climate change, writes state Sen. Phil Rockefeller, D-Kitsap County. The repercussions for the economy, the environment and state infrastructure require action sooner rather than later.

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King County executive candidate Susan Hutchison should release court documents

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - Jul. 16 (Editorial) - Her lawyer said Wednesday he would fight release of records all the way to the state Supreme Court. Why? By their secrecy, Hutchison and her lawyer, Jon Rosen, make the records far more interesting. Hutchison, through her lawyer, says she supports open records but not when it comes to intruding into the privacy of an individual who availed themselves of the court. That sounds too much like she supports open records — just not her records.

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Replace state property tax with carbon tax for climate action

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Times - By Bruce Flory, Todd Myers - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - One sign of progress comes from right next door. Voters in British Columbia recently re-elected Premier Gordon Campbell, the driving force behind BC's carbon tax. By 2012, the tax will reach about $30 per ton of carbon dioxide, or about 30 cents per gallon of gasoline. Money from the tax is used to reduce other taxes in a "revenue-neutral tax shift," and voters showed their support by backing Campbell and his right-of-center party for a rare third consecutive term.

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ONWARD

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Kimberly Mills - Mar. 08 (Editorial) - If this were a just world -- no, not the "just war" world of the Seattle Times -- the Seattle Post-Intelligencer would be the one left standing. Though we're not dead yet, things aren't looking rosy for our print version. So, on what's anticipated to be the last Sunday of the P-I dead-tree edition, here's a message for our competitors at the Times: Don't blow it.

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The road to independence

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:32:51 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Patrick Mazza, Rich Feldman - Jul. 02 (Editorial) - An economic earthquake is poised to shake the globe. By preparing now for a future of scarce world oil supplies, we can build an economy with a more resilient foundation for jobs and prosperity. As economics guru Alan Greenspan recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Even before the devastating hurricanes of last summer, world oil markets had been subject to a degree of strain not experienced for a generation. Today ... the buffer between supply and demand is much too small to absorb shutdowns of even a small part of the world's oil demand." The American economy is like a car without shock absorbers. The next hurricane that slams into the Gulf Coast could send prices up at the pump again. But the next car bomb that successfully explodes at a major Saudi oil facility could send fuel pump prices above $5 or $6 per gallon. A doubling of oil prices from such a shock could cause a 2 percent to 5 percent slump in GDP, for one of the worst recessions since World War II.

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