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A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER: Why local journalism matters more than ever
There are moments when it’s worth taking a step back and asking a basic question. What really keeps a community un…
Their rights
The arrest of Faisal Shahzad, the Times Square bomb suspect, showed the legal system at its best. Authorities employed their standard tools to apprehend and question Shahzad; there were no secret courts, no “black …
Economic land mines buried in reforms
OLYMPIA — As legislators and others comb through the massive health-care reform law, they are finding little-known provisions that will have a big impact on the American people and our economy.
Kagan's views
In 1995, Elena Kagan wrote a law review article calling the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominees a “vapid and hollow charade” because nominees were allowed to “stonewall” discussion of their actu…
FCC's 'net neutrality' is nonsense
CHEYENNE, Wyom. — “Any material element or resource which, in order to become of use or value to men, requires the application of human knowledge or effort, should be private property — by the right of those who ap…
Arizona tried
That giant sucking sound we’ve been hearing is created by the national leadership vacuum failing to face up to illegal immigration.
Oiled up
If a Republican were president, the Democrats would have leaped like a pack of hungry jackals at the chance to exploit the huge Gulf of Mexico oil spill for political gain. We can just hear the outraged demands tha…
Death by a thousand tax increases
SEATTLE — The 2009-2011 supplemental budget recently enacted by the state legislature, which increases taxes by $800 million, does not deal a fatal blow to any particular industry. Instead, legislators this year de…
Fed up
The Seattle Times editorial board recently suggested, “America must do its part,” in regards to feeding people in other nations.
State must fight unconstitutional health care
When Attorney General Rob McKenna joined a bipartisan group of his counterparts from other states to challenge the constitutionality of the Obama health care plan, Gov. Christine Gregoire became downright livid, sa…
Who's calling?
On April 14 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that ought to please anyone who’s ever been annoyed at telemarketers or scammers who shield their identity on the caller ID.
So angry
Amy Walter, of the National Journal, offered a timely reminder recently about the roiling anger at government. She noted that the rage sounds much like 2006 — except that this time Republicans, not Democrats, are t…
No stinking IDs
The trains, they say, ran on time when the Fascists under Benito Mussolini ran Italy. Let that be a lesson to us.
Too private?
Suppose Congress created a board to protect the privacy of Americans and no one showed up. That’s the bizarre reality of the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, all of whose five seats have bee…
Spaced out
Back in February, President Barack Obama announced significant changes and cuts to this nation’s space program.
Hydropower is key to our future
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