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Bellevue City Councils ethics challenge
The Bellevue City Council is responsible for the land use and zoning rules spurringthe city’s massivegrowth. Seattle Times business reporter Amy Martinez reports ...
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Editorial First Amendment rumble
However, in order to gather evidence against Kim, FBI Agent Reginald Reyes filed an affidavit in federal court indicating there was evidence that Rosen (who was not mentioned by name in the affidavit) had broken the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator." Nearly four years later, Rosen has not been charged with a crime, but indicating there was a ...
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Chapman Liz Warrens college loan plan a loony idea
In the 21st century, we have U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s "Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act," which would set the interest rate on student loans at the rate at which banks borrow from the Federal Reserve. The justification - if you can call it that - is that if the Federal Reserve lends money to banks at less than 1 percent, the federal government shouldn’t charge ...
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Henry Payne The zero-emission vehicle myth
made it into the black , earning $11 million profit on revenue of $562 million in the first quarter of ...
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Obama — now and then
- White House aide Dan Pfeiffer, responding over the weekend to questions about where the president was when our ambassador in Benghazi was under attack. "What difference, at this point, does it ...
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Samuelson Is health care spending slowdown for real
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."-- Stein's Law , after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999)We all know that Stein's Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don't know is how and when its share of the economy will stabilize. Will this ...
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Letters The buck stops here
Hearing of the administration's recent scandals, it's refreshing to remember President Truman who kept a placard on his desk which said: "The Buck Stops ...
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My view Why moderates lost the caucus vote
The real truth is conservative dominance has made moderates uneasy both because of public policy and their inability to be elected through the Republican Party process. Because the Republican Party has not voluntarily responded to moderate policies and candidates, they are trying to compel the party system to ...
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Letters Government health care
Lew Jeppson stops short of the conclusion he should have drawn ("The real death panel," May 18). If you don't want death panels, don't put government in charge of your health ...
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Letters Beware slippery slope
Was it irony or poetry that resulted in Hyrum Anderson's letter "Gun logical fallacies" being placed on the page adjacent to Michael Gerson's column about the recent exposure of IRS abuses of power ("IRS abuses bring out the libertarian in each of us," May 14)? Anderson is right as far as his stating that "tyrannical oppression is not the inevitable outcome of ...
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A definitive review of Colorado gun laws
Weld County Sheriff John Cooke, left, speaks during a news conference last Friday at which he announced that 54 Colorado sheriffs are filing a federal civil lawsuit against two gun-control bills passed by the Colorado legislature. (Brennan Linsley, The Associated Press) Gun-control opponents who raised a hue and cry during the recent legislative session, claiming their constitutional rights were ...
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Editorial Michigan becoming a smart investment
Money attracts money, and Michigan is attracting a lot more venture capital today than it has in a decade and at a faster pace than the rest of the nation. A new report from the Michigan Venture Capital Association says the state jumped to the 15th spot in terms of business accelerator activity, up from 25th last year. And while national venture capital investment dropped 10 percent, in Michigan ...
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Our choice U.S. energy renaissance or lights out
The Palisades Nuclear Plant in Covert Township, Mich., is shown in a undated photo provided by Consumers Energy. The license for the power plant, which is 35 miles west of Kalamazoo in Van Buren County will expire in 2011. Consumers Energy and Nuclear Management have formally asked the NRC to extend the license through 2031. (Jeanette ...
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Readers Skunk Works stinks
Will skunk works even work? Whatever happened to Gov. Snyder's "best practices," "dashboard" state government? Whether it's a Washington D.C. scandal or ...
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Letters Drug tests for welfare users
A reform worth trying I think we will find that drug testing will only add to the financial burden of taxpayers, while accomplishing nothing. This is the type of legislation passed that only throws red meat to citizens tired of the stories of people living their life on welfare. I do believe the new requirement for your kids to be in school to continue receiving assistance is a good start. Some ...
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May 21 Letters To the Editor
Gun law a liabilityOnce again a Democrat wants to further restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens ("Conley takes aim at guns with strict new bill," May 12). Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley wants to force gun owners to carry liability insurance. This will just make legal ownership of a gun prohibitively expensive in Massachusetts, thereby making gun ownership for many, ...
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Doctors flee Medicare system
WASHINGTON - Among ?President Obama’s broken promises, there is this gem of June 15, 2009: "no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period."That promise helped sway the American Medical Association to back the president’s Affordable Care Act. But the AMA endorsement merely reflected a ...
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Bring sense to budget
Something about the state budget-writing process can cause lawmakers to lose sight of their fundamental purpose on Beacon Hill. That occurred to us as we perused the 725 (!) proposed amendments to the Senate budget proposal, debate on which begins tomorrow.To wit: One senator is seeking $15,000 to pay for signs that direct cyclists in the Pan Mass Challenge, a wildly successful cancer-fighting ...
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In our opinion Prepare for outdoors
The warm-weather recreation season is beginning, and Utah families will be wise to take note that according to public health agencies, those most vulnerable to death and injury from recreation-related accidents are children under age 15. Already this month, a child was killed in an ATV accident and a teenager severely injured in a hiking fall. The National Weather Service has issued its annual ...
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Robert Bennett With public trust waning Swallow needs administrative leave
Utah Attorney General John Swallow speaks out Jan. 14, 2013, in his office at the state Capitol about allegations that he was involved in improper ...
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Minneapolis motorcycle death leaves many questions
The driver of the motorcycle, Ivan Romero Oliveras, was killed during crash with a police squad at the intersection of 26th Street and Blaisdell Avenue. His passenger, Joselin Torrejon, was injured and is listed as serious at HCMC. Friends and family left flowers and lit candles at crash ...
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Dont judge my service industry career
We’re in the midst of graduation season in Minnesota. With the metro area’s concentration of world-class universities and colleges, parents from all over the country and the world are attending their children’s graduation ceremonies. Once the relief of not having to fork over one more tuition bill wears off, the dread of "what’s next?" will set in. This past ...
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Mental illness has many faces
May is Mental Health Awareness Month - particularly noteworthy given the numerous news stories that we read online or see on the evening news. We have had our emotions stretched from fear to anger to sadness as we’ve heard about Aurora, Newtown, or any number of stories involving untimely deaths and heartache. I’d like to offer you a different face of mental illness. One in which a ...
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IRS inquiry rests on 4 key questions Our view
Conducted by independent professionals and monitored by Congress. Washington scandals follow a familiar arc. When an administration fouls up, the White House lops off some lower-level heads and tries to change the subject to the supposedly more important business facing the nation.Not so fast, the opposing party says. Lawmakers hint at corruption and coverups that extend straight into the Oval ...
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Cheap clothes carry high price tellusatoday
More than 1,100 garment workers died when a factory collapsed in Bangladesh last month. The tragedy sparked a discussion on what people in the U.S. can do to improve working conditions abroad. Comments from Twitter and Facebook:U.S. consumers can do nothing to help. Greedy Americans have shares in those Third World coffin factories.-- @ChiefBisongEta1Consumers can support companies with good ...
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