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Kucinich’s Legacy

By • on March 11, 2012

Dennis Kucinich lost his Congressional seat in Ohio’s primary this past week, an redistricting-induced election he was designed to lose by throwing

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Winning Hearts and Minds, Cont’d (Updated)

By • on March 11, 2012

Ugh. It sounds

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In Other Shocking News…

By • on February 28, 2012

You may not have noticed, but Seattle added a convenient, fast new commuting route over the Christmas holidays. When the Evergreen Point floating bridge

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We have a winner

By • on February 26, 2012

…in the contest you didn’t even know you were having, for the best inadvertent Santorum

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What are women for?

By • on February 17, 2012

That’s the question asked in this piece of truly offensive chin-stroking misogyny

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The arena deal is DOA, but not for the reason you think

By • on February 16, 2012

So Mayor Mike McGinn, various city council members, and hedge fund gazillionaire Christopher Hansen got in front of the microphones this afternoon and

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Here We Go Again

By • on February 16, 2012

In 2004, after a year of ferocious criticism, the New York Times published a famous mea

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The Republican Farm Team

Charles R. Pierce – whose ability to combine thoughtfulness and snark has made him one of my more favorite political writers in legacy media the last couple of years – has a post surveying

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The Political Arena

On the topic of building new palaces for professional sports teams, Seattle has something like the political equivalent of PTSD. Large numbers of people are still bitter that not once but twice in the

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We Did

This month, two state senators – Jim Kastama of Puyallup and Margaret Haugen of Camano Island – committed to supporting the marriage equality bill now in the state legislature. That brought

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