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Saturday, May 26, 2012 - Page updated at 01:00 p.m.

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Ed Cetera

Ed Cetera Blog

On Posing in Front of Others' Property
NEW - 5/24, 03:46 PM

The Times has run big photographs of citizens posing grumpily in front of a property that is about to be developed into something else. In each case, I thought: Is this their property?

JUST FIX IT

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Editorials

A worthwhile conversation about charter schools

Time to start the conversation over charter schools in Washington state. Sign the initiative to start the conversation.

Excessive speed, lack of training put motorcyclists at risk

Seattle School Board can't hide from U.S. Chamber's slap

Hobbs stays above 1st District campaign money grab

A richly earned honor for Gordon Hirabayashi

Boosting engineering programs invests in state's economy

Seattle bargains for creative solutions to sewer and stormwater overflows

Opinion

Senate candidate Bob Kerrey stands above the partisan fray

Bob Kerrey complicates the U.S. Senate choice for Nebraskans, writes Michael Gerson. Ideological conformity is relatively common in Washington, D.C. Independent thought is rarer. And Kerrey, a Democrat who is keen to confront the nation's fiscal crisis driven by entitlement costs — is rarest of all.

Coal trains through Washington: few benefits, much to fear | Guest columnist

Finance or community service? Examining the 'service patch' | David Brooks / Syndicated columnist

To this DIY generation, politics is something you live | Guest columnist

Wall Street's self-serving, self-absorbed legend | Paul Krugman / Syndicated Columnist

Bain Capital and our screwed-up culture | Froma Harrop / Syndicated columnist

The Seattle area's scandalous lack of adequate transit capacity | Guest columnist

Branded by a pimp, sex-trafficking victim speaks out | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated Columnist

More security, leaner budgets with a smaller nuclear arsenal | Lance Dickie / Seattle Times editorial columnist

An America like no other: The majority becomes the minority | Leonard Pitts Jr. / Syndicated columnist

Funding cuts jeopardize education of state's online students | Guest columnist

White House puts the Supreme Court on trial over health-care law | Kathleen Parker / Syndicated columnist

Because Ron Paul backers show up, expect a battle at the GOP convention in Tacoma | Bruce Ramsey / Times editorial columnist

Protect forage fish, cornerstone of our ocean's food web | Guest columnist

The Obama campaign's strange assault on private equity | David Brooks / Syndicated columnist

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