Religious Missionaries in the Northwest: Feuds, Failures, and Fevers

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Catholics may have enjoyed more early success than Protestants in the Oregon-Washington country. 

Seattle to get a New Website, Axios Local. Plus an...

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By third quarter of next year, a Seattle site will join the Axios Local network, according to Adweek, which reports that there will be 11 new local Axios sites in 2022.

Buzzsaw? Crosscut’s New Editor Offloads Opinion Section in a Rethink

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New Executive Editor David Lee, a filmmaker with commercial television experience, says he wants to create a new way of doing opinion writing.

State Democrats Gamble and Kick Redistricting to the Supremes

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So what will the Supremes do with this task, which they never asked for and likely don’t really want? Well, they might go looking for a map that checks the boxes in the law.

BC’s Perfect Storm: Housing Prices Jump And Homelessness Comes to a...

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The colliding factors include a very rapid rise in housing prices, up 31 percent in the “Comox Valley” this year. What had been an affordable area for people fleeing the sky-high cost of housing in metro-Vancouver has now affected small towns and rural areas.

Split State Polls: Bad News for Biden, Support for Abortion Rights

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Voters like the Biden bills but that doesn't translate into approval for Biden's job performance. Meanwhile, Roe v. Wade shows its political staying power.

A Cancer Doc Reflects on COVID Response: How the System Held

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Local hospitals had to scramble to protect patients and staff from the spreading Covid, while steps in China were startlingly efficient. Earlier experience treating AIDS helped guide the authors' response.

Light Against the Dark: The Faces of Fanaticism

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Reflections on the torn faces of survivors of the terrorist attack in Paris. One says, "I made it out alive, but now I am dead among the living."

Former Chief Carmen Best’s Book: Why I Quit

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Best asks, "l couldn't help thinking: Are they dismissing me because I am a Black woman or is the city council refusing to include me because they don't want to be seen as working with the police?" 

An Unexpected Kindness

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In our little Italian village, an extended construction project across the street turns into an opportunity for unexpected kindness.

Pramila Jayapal Makes a Whistle-Stop Appearance at Horizon House

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Asked about the recent back-to-the-center Seattle elections, candidates, and issues, the Congresswoman ducked, saying, "Any election is about local issues."

Lisa Murkowski Preps for a Tough Senate Reelection Battle

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A Trump-backed challenger, Kelly Tshibaka, has been in the field for months. She has labeled Murkowski “Biden’s chief enabling officer” and accused the incumbent of “going against President Trump, whose policies were the best that Alaska has ever known.”

#Blah Blah Blah? Global Climate Conference on “Existential Threat” Ends with...

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None of the three criteria identified by the United Nations as measures of success for the global confab were achieved in full at the conference that ran two weeks and into overtime over the weekend.

Post Alley Podcast: Tom Corddry talks about Science, COVID, and Reporting...

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Post Alley writer Tom Corddry has written a series of stories to help us understand COVID and the miraculous breakthroughs of mRNA. In Post Alley's first podcast, he talks about how he dove deep into the data.

There at the Beginning: Tom Alberg on How Seattle Became a...

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One way or another, I’ve worked for or brushed shoulders with most of our leading companies. I’ve represented, advised, and invested in Boeing, McCaw Cellular, Amazon, Immunex, Alaska Airlines, and many smaller tech companies.

You Can Move But You Cannot Hide: 136 Countries Agree on...

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The global minimum tax will now face the vagaries of U.S. politics, including questions of how the U.S. will enact it and whether it would survive a 2024 Republican election victory.

Visionaries: Designers of Seattle’s Parks and Boulevards

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Designers who "made no small plans" got Seattle's parks off to a running start, even if some plans were nixed and others partly completed.

Apocalypse Wow: How to Deal with Climate Depression

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Catastrophic or apocalyptic thinking poses its own dangers, undermining hope and action, as well as our capacity and willingness to invest in the future. That willingness to invest in a future, one that we shall not ourselves see or see only in part, seems to me an essential part of what it means to be human.

Gov. Inslee Deftly Offloads Steve Hobbs, a Moderate Nuisance

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Inslee’s move has the likely effect of replacing Hobbs -- a maverick centrist who has bucked Inslee and progressives within his own caucus on a variety of issues -- with someone more ideologically aligned with the governor and other Senate Democrats.

Supreme Court Threats to Press Libel Laws

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Justice Gorsuch asks, "If ensuring an informed democratic debate is the goal, how well do we serve that interest with rules that no longer merely tolerate but encourage falsehoods in quantities no one could have envisioned almost 60 years ago?"

Survey Finds Viral Politicization Over COVID Vaccines

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“People’s trusted news sources are correlated with their belief in COVID-19 misinformation,” the Kaiser survey found. It noted trust in vaccination highest among those watching network news, viewers of CNN and MSNBC, and those watching their local news.

Mosqueda’s City Budget Cuts: Something to Hate for Everyone

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Councilmember Mosqueda’s complaint is not that the August revenue forecast was wrong; it’s that the forecast was very accurate when she wanted it to be wrong.

How Seattle has Led the Way on Paid Family Leave

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While the nation has been disgracefully derelict at providing parental leave, Washington, along with six other states and a number of municipalities, does offer such a benefit. It was Seattle that first led the effort.

Election Protector: Kim Wyman takes it National

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Today’s relentless attacks on our nation’s election system are indeed a threat to the cornerstone of our democracy.  That is why picking a Republican to be the Senior Election Head of a Democratic Administration’s Department of Homeland Security, which oversees CISA, may be a Godsend to get us through this perilous moment. 

Inside the Funeral of Colin Powell

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It was a bipartisan affair of a kind one doesn’t see in America much any more, but it was not “political.” The former presidents didn’t speak.

Chain Chain Chain

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At the end of Beyond Ballet, PNB’s second live program under current live-performance COVID rules, my date and I joined the hearty applause for...

New Election Numbers are Definitive

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The leads that all four maintain are now greater than the number of ballots remaining to be counted (about 6,800).

How the Democrats Finally got an Infrastructure Bill Passed

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The squabbles of America and of the Democratic Party nearly derailed a bill which, among other features, will provide the biggest-yet investment in Amtrak rail service and eliminate congested highway rail crossings.

Open Letter to Mayor-Elect Harrell: A Roadmap

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Start fast. Be decisive, not moderate. Be transparent. Reach out...

What You Pay For: Lessons from Swiss Schools

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But at heart the Swiss program is very different. School for first graders is roughly 8 a.m. to noon which includes a 25-minute snack-time/recess. Then it’s walk home for lunch and back to school just two afternoons a week for classes between 1:45 and 3:20.

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A Proliferation of Pink Peril on Bainbridge this Summer

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The onslaught of the leggy pink birds appears to have been set off after a few high school students earlier this year planted flamingos on a roundabout near their school.

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