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John Carlson | Here’s one way to close deficits
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Pat Cashman | Things, even faces, are ‘natural’ in Canada
See the picture of the goofy-looking guy that accompanies this column? Well, that’s nothing. You should have seen…
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Editorial | Seattle’s tunnel will cost us, too
We’ve always suspected some elected officials of having tunnel vision. How right we were. The latest example is…
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News, the P-I, us – and you
So, the P-I is for sale. Its parent company, the Hearst corporation, says that it it doesn’t find…
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Lessons Ds can learn from Rs
With the Legislature now meeting in Olympia, and Barack Obama preparing his inaugural address, now might be a…
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Being presidential can leave you out in the cold
There’s enough inherent drama in next week’s presidential inauguration that you might think it wouldn’t be necessary for…
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Ask Andy | How can there be snow AND global warming
By Andy Wappler As my spine begged for mercy after another day recently spent shoveling snow, I asked…
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Coffeehouse Investor | Don’t miss out
I am not saying it is an opportunity of a lifetime. . . . . .but there is…
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Patty Luzzi | A lost Christmas, but a happy Thanksgiving
Lenny and I have been asking each other if Christmas happened yet. We both worked long hours throughout…
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End of the line for drug-industry trinkets
I was at a convenience store the other day buying the usual – beef jerky and Mountain Dew…
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An unnecessary burden on coal
The push to cut man-made CO2 emissions is exemplified by the current flood of advertisements for “clean energy”…
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GOP needs to shed religion-tinged politics
I have to comment on John Carlson’s “Winners who lost in 2008.” As a new participant in the…
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Some predictions for 2009 | John Carlson
Would anyone have predicted last January that the stock market would plunge from 13,000 to 8,500 by year’s…
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Letters Bush’s mistake about freedom
The actions of an Iraqi moron in Baghdad illustrate what likely was the biggest mistake that President Bush…
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Gregoire has herself to blame for mess
It is astonishing that Washington state unions are suing Governor Gregoire for suspending salary increases while thousands of…
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Snow: Bellevue should think salt next time
We never thought we’d cheer a rainy day in December. But we suspect there were many cheering the…
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Having my fill of those breakfast boasts
I asked a neighbor of mine what he did for Christmas last week.
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To the everyday heroes
Just when you think the last thread of humanity has dwindled away, five people stop mid-road to jump…
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Winners who lost in 2008
At year’s end, an intriguing political irony has emerged. The Democrats won the national and local elections, but…
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Forecasting snow one of life’s tougher tasks
It’s only a rumor that most snow forecasting is done by flipping a coin, but sometimes it might…