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Introduction | How we're still failing our Sound

May 11th, 2008 - Seattle Times

I f you want to see where Puget Sound's fate is being decided, turn your back to the water. Look instead at the once-forested hillsides...


The painful cost of booming growth

May 11th, 2008 - Seattle Times

The loggers arrived in July, toppling 35 acres of Douglas firs and cedars. The bulldozers and excavators followed, scraping away the topsoil...


Shining light on "real" Belltown

May 11th, 2008 - Seattle Times

She is the buzz of Belltown, though almost no one knows her name. Depending on whom you ask, she's courageous for staring into Seattle's...


Young, evangelical ... for Obama?

May 11th, 2008 - Seattle Times

College-age evangelicals are leaving the GOP, looking outside the party — sometimes outside both parties — for a match with their socially conservative yet globally aware leanings.


Oregon the end of the trail for Clinton?

May 10th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Sixteen months after Clinton declared her candidacy, Oregon's May 20 primary looms as the place where her hopes of capturing the Democratic nomination might end.


Sex offender surrenders in Arkansas

May 10th, 2008 - Seattle Times

A registered sex offender who had been living under a bridge in Snohomish is back in custody after he removed his GPS tracking device and fled the state.


Friends of Seattle cabdriver "satisfied" with killer's life sentence

May 10th, 2008 - Seattle Times

A 19-year-old man who shot a Seattle taxicab driver in the head and then set the cab on fire last summer was sentenced to life in prison by a King County Superior Court judge.


Chocolate, dog found with 2 broken legs, ready for adoption

May 10th, 2008 - Seattle Times

The Chesapeake Bay retriever, whose tale of survival and gradual recovery has drawn global attention, will be back in the Tri-Cities next month from Washington State University in Pullman.


Toddler suffers no major injuries in Seattle apartment fall

May 10th, 2008 - Seattle Times

A 21-month-old boy plunged from a second-story apartment window to the ground 20 feet below, but appeared to suffer no major injuries. The accident happened at...


He's a King County foreclosure man: "I'm the bearer of bad news"

May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Foreclosure man Richard Nakamura is on a tight schedule these days. Business is booming, even here in the relatively prosperous Greater Seattle area. It's never-ending, the list of homes, condos and even entire apartment complexes that Nakamura visits in his Toyota pickup. Nakamura's official job title is posting agent, and he is one of three such employees who work for Foreclosure Expeditors/Initiators of Bellevue, one of the bigger players in the business.


Nicole Brodeur: Do you recognize "amazing"?

May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times

This guy wrote last fall, asking me to write about his "amazing" wife. I was immediately suspicious. And I wasn't alone.


Bush signs bill for Wild Sky Wilderness

May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Nearly six years after it was first introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of Seattle has become law. President Bush signed a...


Rep. Larsen endorses Obama

May 9th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., said he's a Democratic superdelegate committed to Sen. Barack Obama.


Conflict of interest by McIver claimed

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Seattle City Councilmember Richard McIver was accused Wednesday of violating the city's conflict-of- interest law when he awarded a contract...


Community is its own newspaper

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Rich Carr thinks maybe he has reinvented the small-town newspaper. He's the editor of the Orting News, which has been in business for a...


Nickels: Tap your tap to quench that thirst

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

When Mayor Greg Nickels drives in his car, he carries a plastic container filled with tap water. He says it's his small effort to save the...


Hispanic students at Interlake pull together to graduate

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

No one had their back. As Osbaldo Hernandez looked around Bellevue's Interlake High School, he saw Hispanic students growing discouraged...


Bush signs Wild Sky wilderness bill in Washington state

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Nearly six years after it was first introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of Seattle has become law.


McIver accused of conflict of interest by ethics director

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Seattle City Councilmember Richard McIver was accused Wednesday of violating the city's conflict-of- interest law when he awarded a contract...


Bush signs Wild Sky wilderness bill

May 8th, 2008 - Seattle Times

Nearly six years after it was first introduced, a bill to create a Wild Sky Wilderness northeast of Seattle has become law. President Bush signed a...


 






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