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2007 Pictures of the Year-Seattle
Seeded on Wed Jan 2, 2008 7:11 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
Sharing their grief Spc. Daniel Caldwell and his wife, Kelly, embrace during an Oct. 10 ceremony that unveiled a memorial at Fort Lewis for those from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, who died in Iraq. Daniel Caldwell lost his best friend, Spc. Justin Garcia.
Seattle area a new hub for "clean" technology
Seeded on Wed Jan 2, 2008 10:34 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
Michael Weaver began thinking about alternative energy while cruising around Puget Sound.
The dumbest — according to Mad
Seeded on Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:09 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
Of course Larry Craig was a shoo-in for the list.
Suspects in Carnation slayings charged with aggravated first-degree murder
Seeded on Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:15 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
Both Michele Kristen Anderson and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, were charged today with six counts of aggravated first-degree murder for the Christmas Eve killings of three generations of Anderson's family in Carnation.
David Horsey: Here Comes the Calvary
Seeded on Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:11 PM EST (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Horsey on the mortgage crisis and Bush
Choo-Choo Bob: A retired preacher passes on his lifelong love of trains
Seeded on Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:14 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
Bob Bradbury grew up poor. So poor that he didn't receive birthday or Christmas gifts. He had to find his own amusement and often did at the train tracks near his parents' Danville, Ill., home. Steam trains would stop there and shed some cars before climbing a steep grade.
Volunteers share their churches' holiday traditions
Seeded on Mon Dec 24, 2007 8:05 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
As Christians worldwide prepare to celebrate the holiday, volunteers at three area churches share how they contribute to the traditions of their congregations
Calling All Wise Men
Seeded on Sun Dec 23, 2007 1:56 PM EST (The Seattle Times)
The female editors at Pacific Northwest got together and suggested a story on how the burden of the holiday falls disproportionately on one gender.
Charity returns the favor to a former volunteer
Seeded on Sat Dec 22, 2007 9:06 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
Bundled up against the afternoon chill, Judy Day brightened as she watched her great-grandson, Caleb, bound off a school bus and into her arms.
Amazon to make giant move to South Lake Union
Seeded on Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:59 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
South Lake Union wasn't exactly in the development doldrums before Amazon.com's announcement Friday that it will move its corporate headquarters to the neighborhood.
Nearly $100 million wasted by Port, state says
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 3:57 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
A state audit Thursday blasted the Port of Seattle for shoddy management of construction contracts, which auditors say wasted $97 million in public money, violated competitive-bidding laws, and left the Port "vulnerable to fraud, waste and abuse."
Holiday-O-Matic
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:50 PM EST ()
Pull the lever and create a random holiday greeting and send to a friend. Each greeting sent will generate a donation to Rotary First Harvest.
Coffee customers "pay it forward" by paying for those behind
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:05 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
What started as a small gesture of holiday cheer Wednesday, in 24 hours, grew to involve about 500 coffee drinkers in a chain of giving in Marysville.
The FCC's preordained mistake
Seeded on Fri Dec 21, 2007 7:58 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
The divergent views of the Republicans and Democrats on the Federal Communications Commission is a startling and yet informative glimpse into how the media cross-ownership ban was obliterated. An Editorial from the Seattle Times, "The Democracy Papers"
Retool the FCC
Seeded on Thu Dec 20, 2007 10:15 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
Congress has an easy decision to make. It can work for a vibrant press and healthy democracy or abdicate its power to media conglomerates, as the Federal Communications Commission has done. A editorial from The Democracy Papers (Seattle Times)
Lawmakers play favorites; local merchant loses out
Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 10:04 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
Doug Hoschek sells the Army's elite Special Forces a T-shirt that resists burning — a feature that can save the lives of soldiers under fire.
FCC set to decide on Media-ownership today
Seeded on Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:43 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is pushing ahead for a vote today to pass a rule that would allow more consolidation of local media ownership in the nation's largest cities, despite the fresh threat of a legislative rebuke and continued protests from a …
Gates Foundation helps find homes for needy families
Seeded on Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:18 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
For the past seven years, in one of its few Northwest initiatives, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has worked with government and nonprofit groups to help more than 600 families find permanent homes.
Web sites stripped of medical-device claims
Seeded on Sun Dec 16, 2007 8:11 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
As news spread of two federal investigations into dubious medical devices used throughout the Northwest, distributors and operators have purged their Web sites of the fraudulent claims that are under scrutiny.
E-mail from beyond crosses a line
Seeded on Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:01 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
E-mail is always exceeding its potential, streamlining communications and solving problems we never knew we had.
Are Christmas Stories Dead? I Hope Not.
Sat Dec 15, 2007 4:43 AM EST
Author's Note: I love Christmas stories. I don't write them much, but I love them anyway. They almost always have a happy ending. And even I can be a sucker for Christmas. This is one I wrote for a print newsletter back in 2003. 'Back Through The Checkout Line'
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Army pays $725 to WWII vet for unfair trial, imprisonment
Seeded on Fri Dec 14, 2007 12:35 AM EST (CNN)
Samuel Snow thought when he got a check from the Pentagon that the Army was finally ready to give him the apology and the compensation he'd been denied for 63 years. He was wrong. The Army imprisoned Snow in 1944 for a crime he says he couldn't have committed.
The Pros and Cons of Coffee Drinking
Seeded on Thu Dec 13, 2007 7:04 AM EST (dumblittleman.com)
Mmm... coffee, the aroma, the flavor. It makes mornings so much better! But is our daily cup of coffee doing more harm than good? There is a lot of research concerning both the negative and the positive effects of coffee drinking. The "Pros"
Even top docs missing signs of cancer on mammogram
Seeded on Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:58 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
A new three-state study led by Seattle's Group Health Cooperative shows that even the most skilled radiologists fail to detect 20 percent of breast-cancer cases in diagnostic mammograms — which are done when cancer is suspected and when any tumors would presumably be larger and …
David Horsey: The Hazards of Using Star Power
Seeded on Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:04 PM EST (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Seattle's own Pulitizer prize winning political cartoonist comments on Oprah-Obama
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