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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...

topics: candidate, elected, election, primary, republicans

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An estimated 10,000 people work at Boeing Field. So, logically it makes sense that the company would be dismayed if one of the primary routes leading to it were to close. As it turns out, t......

topics: primary, south-park

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Memories of the Wah Mee massacre seem to have faded, except in Chinatown. They still remember street thugs Willie Mak, 22, Benjamin Ng, 20, the primary gunmen, and third man Tony Ng, 26. T......

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The other day the Seattle Times singled out House Finance Committee chair Ross Hunter for his willingness to consider raising taxes to ward off some of the most crippling and counterproductive impending budget cuts:This is a failure of leadership. Hu...

topics: committee, conservative, primary, republican, supreme-court

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State Senator Craig Pridemore, D-Vancouver (LD 49,) will formally get the endorsement of the Blue America PAC during am 11 AM PST live chat today at the web site Crooks and Liars.Pridemore is one of only three US House candidates endorsed by Blue Am...

topics: campaign, candidate, conservative, primary, senator

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As I was putting together Monday s post on the corruption within the Department of Corrections, there have been a few news items related to medical marijuana that I haven t had a chance to discuss. First and foremost, there was a court ruling that a...

topics: attorney-general, primary, senate, state-senate

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Over on Crosscut, Daniel Jack Chasan asks the question: Are super-majorities in the legislature unconstitutional? Simple answer: of course they are& except for, you know, those super-majorities specifically prescribed within the constitution.Think a...

topics: primary, supreme-court

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Washington's political parties are back in court, trying again to toss out the voter-approved top two primary system....

topics: political, primary

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About ten years ago, shortly after his return to Apple, Steve Jobs gave this motivational speech defining the company s core values. (Via Gizmodo.) Marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it s a very noisy world, and we re not go...

topics: democrats, government, politician, politics, primary

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I agree with Danny Westneat:Let me repeat what he said, because you don t hear it often: We don t mind some reasonable tax increase.I think that s true. I d guess people want to see more cutting, first. But they also would rather pay a little more, a...

topics: government, health-care, primary