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Another day, another intentionally misleading, anti-labor editorial from the Seattle Times:LAST year organized labor pushed a bill to restrict a company s ability to talk to its employees. It was marketed as the Worker Privacy Act, and its aim was to...

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For the first time since I learned about the King County Conservation District elections a few years back, the King County Conservation Voters endorsed candidate has finally come won one of these bizarre, nearly secret elections. So congratulations t...

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Dino Rossi's shady dealings with disgraced developer Michael Mastro could loom large over any future political campaign.State Republicans talk tough about taking out U.S. Sen. Patty Murray in what s shaping up to be a tough year for incumbents, but t...

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Eleven Republican state senators filed a bill yesterday, SB 6883, that would bar legislators from collecting a per diem during the coming special session, which I suppose might be taken as a serious attempt to protect the interests of taxpayers, if n...

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Over 100 days ago, newly elected King County Executive Dow Constantine told hundreds of people packed into the former First United Methodist Church that he would improve transportation, cle......

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One of the pleasures of reimmersing myself in programming these past few weeks is that I haven t had as much time on my hands to fisk the Seattle Times op-ed page. Unfortunately, I haven t quite been able to break the nasty habit of reading it, so I ...

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Since Barack Obama was elected president, a million and one articles have been written about how our new Commander in Chief eschews the traditional leisure sport of the powerful (golf) in......

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If Evan Bahy had died, I guess I could understand this piece in the Seattle Times (and similar pieces throughout the print media and cable). But this seems pretty overwrought for someone who is going to retire to a nice corporate gig, and then maybe ...

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I ve been too preoccupied to conduct my usual fisking of Seattle Times editorials in recent days, but that hasn t made them any less worthy of mockery.Temporarily increase the King County sales tax to maintain police, jails and courts? Enough is eno...

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Irrespective of his initial stumbles, it's still badass to see Seattle's top elected official getting to work on two wheels. Eat your heart out, NYC-Bloomberg-subways. ......

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