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You chose it - now you'll use ranked voting in Pierce County
... this ranked-choice voting?" Chances are, you did. It was 2006. Many voters were angry. For some 70 years, Washington voters had been able to mix and match Democratic and Republican candidates on their primary election ballot. A voter could pick a ...
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Leader hopeful on coordinated Euro crisis response
... that he would "announce a certain number of measures" Monday for France. The summit follows a weekend meeting in Washington of finance ministers from the Group of Seven - Japan, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Canada and the United States. ...
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Endangered species ruling could slow development in floodplains
A ruling that development along dozens of rivers flowing from the Cascade Mountains to Washington state's Puget Sound jeopardizes endangered salmon, steelhead and killer whales could shape future construction ...
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Newspapers Weigh Alternatives to AP: But Do They Add Up?
... half-dozen dailies have given notice, including The Bakersfield Californian, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, and Washington's Yakima Herald-Republic and The Wenatchee World. "I think the AP regional report has fallen off in quantity, and in some ...
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Surprises found at old Hanford pistol range
... up the site we have to think of a whole host of things, like relics from the '40s." So far DOE contractor Washington Closure Hanford only has been assigned cleanup of the 7-acre pistol range. But the 55 acres used for target practice also included a ...
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... also a well-known public figure, an experienced former member of the Richland City Council and a member of the Washington State Transportation Commission. We think she is better qualified and better suited to serve the citizens of the 8th District ...
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Viks 2nd, Bulldogs 4th at Crossover
... of the tournament, calling the last two matches intense. "If we can dance with the best teams in the state of Washington we'll be all right in Idaho. We very well could have won it." With the second-place finish of Coeur d'Alene, which split with ...
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Nancy Watson Sams, 93, of Jasper
Nancy Watson Sams, 93, of Jasper, died Thursday, Oct. 9 at Washington Regional in Fayetteville.
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Charlie Brotman 's basement is just the kind of place you might expect to find the legendary impresario of Washington sports mulling over seasons past.
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Ruffing speeds into soccer lineup
As a George Washington University freshman, former Westborough High soccer and track standout Ryan Ruffing has stepped into the starting lineup for the men's soccer team.
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Freighthouse Square: An asylum run amok through Halloween
... people attended Friday's opening, Malady said. Jesse Carasella, a student in marine biology at the University of Washington, became a demented janitor - after spending Friday as a werewolf. "I got screaming, I got jumping, I got hands thrown up in ...
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Steve Kelley | Central's Mike Reilly may be state's best college quarterback
Another record fell early. Mike Reilly is breaking records in his senior season at Central Washington like Michael Phelps at an all-comers meet.
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Outdoors Notebook | Alaska halibut plan would give more control to commercial fishermen
... industry. Of the 502,000 sport fishing licenses Alaska sells annually, 315,000 go to nonresident anglers. Eastern Washington rivers open for hatchery steelhead fishing Hatchery steelhead have become free game to anglers on the Upper Columbia, Methow ...
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Estes and Willis share common ground
... permits to "independent contractors." Salal is an evergreen shrub that thrives in the forests of Western Washington. It's dark green leaves are used in floral arrangements and sold around the world. A federal issue? Many of those independent ...
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Rollina but not for much dough
... that the sustainability of log trucking businesses is in question," according to researchers at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources, and Washington State University's School of Economic Sciences. The study, released to ...
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Rescue law requires cost basis reporting
... cost basis reporting. The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, which is based in New York and Washington, "has worked long and hard with Congress on the technical issues surrounding [the new law], and we believe the current cost ...
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Washington's only contested US House race revs up
Sun, Oct 12, 2008 For U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert, Democratic challenger Darcy Burner is too inexperienced and left-leaning. For Burner, Reichert is ineffective and has sided with President Bush too often.
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Initiative 1029: Measure unfairly, unnecessarily lumps disabled in with the 'sick'
... what we found and what we didn't find. We found that the National Conference of State Legislatures had identified Washington as one of three states that should serve as a model for innovative quality assurance methods. We learned from a Washington ...
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Initiative 1029: Greater protections are needed for our most vulnerable residents
... filled with loopholes that allow potential caregivers to avoid federal criminal background checks. That's why the Washington State Long-Term Care Ombudsman, the Alzheimer's Association of Western and Central Washington, Fraternal Order of Police, ...
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Candidates gunning for the White House won't stop saying it: 'Washington is broken.' But how about this, substituting Washington state for the nation's capital: 'Washington's school funding system is broken.' ...
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