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Guest Prevent prescription-drug deaths with a medicine-return program
A convenient and secure unused medicine-return program is a key strategy to reduce deaths due to prescription drugs, according to guest columnists David Fleming and Joe ...
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Seattle’s waterfront mayor’s race most important topic mysteriously absent
Seattle’s waterfront is about to go through a major transformation in the mayor’s next term. Why aren’t the candidates talking more about it, wonders columnist Jonathan ...
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Villaraigosa not a bad mayor but disappointing Editorial
Villaraigosa told a public-radio interviewer Tuesday that his future includes a move to Venice and the possibility of work with a university or think tank. And, yes, probably a campaign for higher office someday. "I want to run for governor," he said. "In fact, I fully expect that I ...
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Minnesota mom Add loose guns to parents worry list
Sally asks Suzy over for a play date. Suzy’s mother learns through neighborhood gossip that Sally’s family recently adopted a man-eating Bengal tiger named "Roscoe." Ignoring the advice from animal experts, Sally’s parents have decided not to enroll the family in tiger training due to their busy ...
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Organ donation Make it opt-out not opt-in
In this May 30, 2013 file photo provided by the Murnaghan family, Sarah Murnaghan, left, lies in her hospital bed next to adopted sister Ella on the 100th day of her stay in Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Murnaghen, whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation drew public debate over how donated lungs are allocated was getting a transplant Wednesday, June 12, ...
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Teach for America faces new Minnesota obstacle
Not surprisingly, the seemingly all-powerful Education Minnesota teachers union opposed both the funding request and the group waiver. And, once again, Education Minnesota and its lobbyists succeeded in sustaining the status ...
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U.S. infrastructure Addressing the needs
The American Society of Civil Engineers 2013 report card on America’s infrastructure says it succinctly. The grade the ASCE gives for our deteriorating roads, dams, bridges, water and sewer systems, aviation, and other infrastructure components is a resounding … "D." That means the facilities studied are in poor shape, and worse, that they place many Americans at ...
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Will talks with Taliban yield results tellusatoday
We asked our Twitter followers for their opinion on possible peace talks among the U.S., Afghanistan and the Taliban. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:We didn't negotiate with the Nazis. Receiving Taliban input legitimizes its actions. Involve citizens, not terrorists.-- @SbudnoWe can never realize peace as long as the Taliban has a voice. It is radical and hates the U.S. -- ...
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Take a uniform approach to education standards Your Say
Common Core State Standards. Comments from Facebook:Role of governmentWe should adopt national education standards, not leave them up to school districts. Look at the disparity in proficiency testing, and it is easy to see why states that perform poorly in education also are at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale. If students expect to compete for 21st century jobs, they need to be judged ...
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Sherry Young Milestones can be a road map to a life
Squaw Peak, the prominent peak at center left of photo, is a mountain above Provo. Sherry Young's son Mike, who is turning 50 this year, decided to run the Squaw Peak ...
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Coal impact will be measured in Pacific Northwest alone
["Corps review won't weigh impact of coal beyond NW," NW Wednesday, June 19.] Instead, it will study only the effects at the proposed terminal sites. This astoundingly shortsighted decision ignores the overwhelming call during public hearings last November for an area-wide study. The decision also chooses to ignore the impacts of coal dust from the trains to each community along ...
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John Morse recall is an abuse of political process
Colorado Senate President John Morse shows a banner at the Democratic Party offices in Colorado Springs in May. (Ed Andrieski, The Associated Press) We've had our issues with state Senate President John Morse, calling his gun liability plan from the recent legislative session "wishful thinking" in one editorial and saying it "flies in the face of logic and federal law" ...
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Did Black Swan producers fleece interns Opinionline
The Oregonian : "A federal judge in Manhattan ruled last week that Fox Searchlight Pictures violated federal and New York state minimum wage laws in 2011 when it stiffed production interns on the set of Black Swan. The Black Swan decision has revived interest in an issue I've followed since my daughters had internships at two Paul Allen enterprises several years back, and the ...
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Our cranky man in Kabul
Kabul . Then, for good measure, he added that the U.S. could forget about any arrangement that would allow it to maintain a presence in the country after the withdrawal of American ...
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Republicans choice and pain
GOP than of Democrats. So naturally with all these facts in mind, it was time for the House Republicans to band together to pass legislation that restricts women's right to choose in a manner that is not only patently unconstitutional but has no chance of passage in the Senate whatsoever. And that's not even taking into account the obstacle of a president who has pledged to veto it. ...
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Minnesota cities breathing easier from boost in state aid
There was plenty of talk about breathing easier and the end of a long fiscal storm among the eight mayors who joined state Revenue Commissioner Myron Frans Wednesday to hail the 2013 Legislature's big boost in state aid to cities, through a revamped Local Government Aid (LGA) program. The $80 million increase over three years is the first substantial boost cities have seen since the ...
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Khaled Hosseini Afghanistan gains must not be lost
On my visits to Afghanistan, I witnessed with each trip improved access to regular electricity . There are today two main story lines when it comes to Afghanistan: the scheduled pullout of the U.S. troops in 2014, and what a hopeless cause the country has turned out to be.The widely accepted impression is that, for all the resources poured into Afghanistan, little of value has been achieved on ...
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Farewell to hotel room service
A cart with finished room-service orders at the New York Hilton Midtown, June 2, 2013. In August, the hotel will discontinue food and drink service to all 2,000 of its rooms; in its place will be a new cafeteria-style restaurant that will be stocked with grab-and-go ...
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What was Seattle mayor candidate Peter Steinbreuck thinking
, the 1899 story collection by African-American writer Charles Chestnutt about race relations in South post-Civil War. Strangely, Steinbrueck chose to read it in dialect, making him sound like Chris Rock impersonating a white Seattle architect trying to ...
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Immigration Reform in the Senate and beyond
An immigration activist holds up a sign on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol during an All In for Citizenship rally April 10, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. [Alex Wong/Getty ...
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Nicklesville draws attention as City Council fights homelessness
Patience with Nicklesville has proved useless. ["Editorial: Seattle Council presses on against homelessness," Opinion, June 17.] But the first priority of the Seattle City Council and the Legislature is the construction or securing of buildings to house the homeless.The Times is right to urge more mental health and chemical dependency services, but wrong to not first emphasize getting ...
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Charles B. Rangel Obamas Syria plan has many dangers
meets with world leaders, I hope that he can reach an international consensus on engaging in Syria because we should not get drawn into another proxy war that would entangle us with Hezbollah, Iran and Russia. While I understand that President Obama's ...
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Punchlines Iran out with the old in with the moderate
The newly elected president of Iran is a moderate. What does that mean exactly? The late-night comics ponder that question and say goodbye to outgoing leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.Check out our favorite jokes about the Iranian election, then vote for yours in the quick poll to the right. Watching this from your smartphone or tablet? Then go ...
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Bait And Twitch Vice Magazine Suicide Glamour And Not Staying Quiet
Magazine unveiled a fashion spread featuring images based on famous women writers who killed themselves. To call it merely tasteless would be to understate how calculated it was as well as how revolting it was -- it literally created an image based on a real writer who really hanged herself with a pair of stockings, and then it told you where to buy the stockings. And because it was ...
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Is Lansing serving the people
Readers are disappointed that state Sen. Minority Leader Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, abandoned talks on road and education funding. (Dale G. Young/The Detroit ...
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