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Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - Page updated at 11:30 p.m.
Posted by Lance Dickie - NEW - 1/07, 04:45 PM
Another Pineapple Express is roaring through the region, bringing heavy rain, warmer temperatures and swollen rivers. Add soaring freezing levels to the list. The pattern is increasingly familiar to those who plot the impacts of global warming. The immediate problem is flooding, but longer term issues go to water supplies later in the year.
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 | Some guidance for Seattle City Council in 2009
The Seattle City Council will present legislative themes and priorities for 2009 at its Monday, Jan. 12 meeting. The Seattle Times editorial page offers a few important suggestions.
Editorial | Seattle Thunderbirds are dropping the puck in Kent's new ShoWare Center
Tuesday, January 6
Editorial | No closure on Seattle Public Schools closures
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
Church leaders should be careful influencing political campaigns
Catholic church officials involved themselves in 2007 political campaigns: Washington's Initiative 1000, which gives terminally ill patients access to assisted suicide, and California's Proposition 8, which stripped gay citizens of the right to marry. Seattle community leaders Terrence Carroll and Sam Sperry, who are lifelong Catholics, wonder if the Church's absence of dialogue with parishioners on serious issues is symptomatic of clerical lack of trust in the laity.
Gaza is ground zero for the Mideast's great struggles
Tuesday, January 6
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.
The Doonesbury cartoon that has appeared on the editorial page has moved to the comics page. Look for it in Section D.
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