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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Page updated at 08:30 p.m.
Gregoire's budget:
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Gov. Chris Gregoire talks to The Seattle Times' editorial board about the austere state budget she unveiled Thursday morning. Listen to the interview about $3.5 billion in cuts:
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Editorial | No closure on Seattle Public Schools closures
The Seattle Public Schools plan for closing unneeded schools is anything but a done deal. The plan continues to change as school district residents and school board members wrestle with a plan that is budget smart and politically viable.
Monday, January 5
Editorial | Weak cellphone law puts drivers off the hook
Editorial | China's milk scandal is a political temblor
Editorial | Approval of Puget Sound Energy takeover by foreign interests the wrong decision
Editorial | Gov. Bill Richardson, a tarnished future
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I take umbrage at "um"
The word "um" is sneaking into common usage as a word meaning, "I'm making fun of what follows." Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey argues its use "is a barbarian thing, the grunted equivalent of a sitcom laugh track."
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Rep. Bill Grant was strong voice for rural Washington
Monday, January 5
MRSA not hospitals' only infection challenge
David Sirota / Syndicated columnist | New Deal gets a raw deal when conservatives rap FDR
Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated Columnist | Sex trafficking: the evil behind the forced smiles
Sex trafficking: Time to launch a 21st-century abolitionist movement
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Eric Devericks takes aim at politicians and their antics during the 2008 presidential election.
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Seattle Times opinion columnist Lynne K. Varner offers post-election analysis alongside U.S. Rep. Jim McDermott, Sen. Majority Leader Lisa Brown, House Speaker Frank Chopp and others on Thursday at Hale's Ales in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood. The panel, part of an annual post-election event hosted by State Sen. Jeanne Kohl and moderated by KIRO-TV's Bob Branom, will begin at 6:16 p.m.
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