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The politics of beards
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Mossback is biased on the subject of beards: They're always in style. But chin whiskers are still subject to debate outside the Great Nearby where fashion sometimes flirts with the beard, but razors usually win out in the end.Maybe the Santa-season h...


aggregated: 2 days 22 hours ago
topics: campaign, election, obama, politics
Five things that make even a Mossback happy
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To be a Seattle native today is to be conflicted. I suffer from bouts of nostalgia for the old city, but also feel excitement about aspects of the new. The latter sentiment may come as a surprise, because as a columnist I frequently complain about mo...


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topics: carbon-footprint, liberal, mayor, political, republicans
Happy Nazi New Year
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Maybe it's just me, but it seemed like 2008 was filled with Nazi and Hitler stories and references. I wrote about it on a number of occasions, including pointing out brouhahas over local conservatives comparing environmentalists to Nazis, critics acc...


1 views | aggregated: 4 days 20 hours ago
topics: bellevue, political
You call that socialism?
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While conservatives wail about federal financial bailouts being a return to socialism, the budget problems at the states signal new momentum for the opposite: privatization.States have been looking for ways to raise cash for some time, and leasing or...


1 views | aggregated: 1 week 7 hours ago
topics: budget, economy, investment, tacoma, tax
Oregon will move to tax cars by the mile
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In a step toward making driving in your own vehicle akin to taking a taxi cab that charges by distance traveled, Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski plans to recommend his state transition away from the gas tax in 2009, eventually replacing it with a mile...


1 views | aggregated: 1 week 7 hours ago
topics: tax, technology
Sobering lessons for Puget Sound clean-up
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The story is sobering to those who hope for success in efforts to clean-up Puget Sound, the beautiful, once bountiful defining waters of our region. The Washington Post has an analysis of the historic $6-billion Chesapeake Bay clean-up effort, launch...


1 views | aggregated: 1 week 1 day ago
topics: political, pollution, senator, taxes
Can Seattle be a Slow City?
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The dean of writing about the West, Wallace Stegner, once wrote that the West gave America two innovations: the motel and the ghost town. The ethic of the region has long been about movement and growth: to stay in one place is to stagnate and die. Th...


3 views | aggregated: 1 week 6 days ago
topics: budget, business, economy, environment, government
Can writers get a federal bailout too?
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The late Walt Crowley, co-founder of the local history website HistoryLink, used call his project an example of venture socialism. As a non-profit, HistoryLink has been partly supported by funds from local government as well as foundations and priv...


3 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 4 days ago
topics: business, congress, economy, government, liberal
Lakeside's N word poet responds
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Mona Lisa Saloy, the African-American poet and professor from New Orleans who stirred controversy at Seattle's Lakeside prep school with her reading of a poem called (and using) The 'N' Word, has now responded via email to the Lakeside community.Sp...


1 views | aggregated: 2 weeks 6 days ago
topics: committee
Seattle's first expo is You Tube-ready
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Seattle's first world's fair, the Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition of 1909, will be remembered in many ways during its upcoming centennial year, but giving people a live-action sense of the expo has proved elusive. A fairly extensive photographic reco...


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