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A local government virtual meeting | Cartoon by Frank Shiers
Cartoon by Frank Shiers
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Seattle World’s Fair highlighted electric transportation network | Brunell
Seattle’s 1962 World’s Fair was awe-inspiring. It previewed developments that would improve our daily lives in the next…
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Lawsuit may have chilling effect on effort to reduce homelessness | Roegner
Responding to the regional homeless challenge isn’t easy and comes with its own set of political problems. First,…
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Steamboats once chugged up the mighty White River | Whale’s Tales
I often indulge in a harmless bit of reverie – trying to imagine the long bygone days of…
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Things that got permanently stuck in my psyche | Whale’s Tales
I’ve never understood the mechanism by which things we do our damnedest to remember slip through our brains…
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King County prosecutor race is the one to watch | Roegner
The race to replace retiring Dan Satterberg as King County prosecutor is one to watch closely.
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King County’s new inquest rules become part of new system | Roegner
Since 1854, before Washington was a territory, inquests have been required whenever a person dies from interaction with…
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Could we pull together like the Ukrainians are doing? | Whale’s Tales
The past is like a foreign country — they do things differently there.
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U.S. Senate and Washington Legislature are the races to watch | Roegner
There’s a question hanging in the air: Can a Republican U.S. Senate candidate really win in Washington?
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Through a kid’s eyes: Wonders of Eastern Washington | Whale’s Tales
Ever since the day I discovered that Aplets and Cotlets, Cashmere-based Liberty Orchard’s name for Turkish Delight, the…
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When the Ku Klux Klan came to Auburn | Whale’s Tales
My good friend, Mike Engen, told me that on one occasion when he was working for Rottles in…
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The benefits of King County’s juvenile diversion program | Roegner
Due to widespread community support at a King County Law Justice, Health and Human Services Committee meeting, and…
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When the lights came on in Auburn | Whale
October of 1929 would prove to be important in the lives of Auburn residents, though it would take…