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Sound Transit keeps pushing on despite recession | Andrew Villeneuve
On March 20, Sound Transit will officially inaugurate service at its new Mountlake Terrace highway station at 236th…
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Where’s the waste? Government bashers have no answer | Andrew Villeneuve
About a month ago, the 2011 regular session of the Legislature convened in Olympia. As this session is…
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Quality of life should come before tax loopholes| Andrew Villeneuve
At nearly every town hall, legislative action meeting, or budget question-and-answer session that I've been to in the…
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Lame duck Congress morphs into sprinting cheetah | Andrew Villeneuve
Defying the conventional wisdom that they can’t accomplish anything significant during the last few weeks of an even-numbered…
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Rethinking our view of taxes | Andrew Villeneuve
Throughout these last few weeks of autumn, a debate has been raging over taxes at both the state…
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Make the holidays a little greener | Andrew Villeneuve
Every year, during the final weeks before January rolls around again, retailers and automakers go to great lengths…
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Voters choose gridlock in 2010 midterms | Andrew Villeneuve
Demonstrating their frustration with the slow pace of the economic recovery, voters across Washington State and America unwittingly…
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Don’t be swayed by the political attack ads on TV | Andrew Villeneuve
The final hours of the 2010 midterms are upon us. As field teams rev up their get-out-the-vote efforts…
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Stop greed: Vote no on corporate initiatives | Andrew Villenuve
This autumn, Washington voters are facing what seems like a record number of initiatives. Five of these measures…
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Murray, Rossi need to be more accessible to voters | Andrew Villeneuve
For many places in the United States, Election Day 2010 will begin and end on Nov. 2, the…
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Three ways to responsibly reduce deficit | Andrew Villeneuve
Readers who have paid any attention to cable news channels or political journals lately have probably noticed that…
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Voters go for the familiar in August election | Andrew Villeneuve
If there's an anti-incumbent, electoral revolt going on in the United States this year, voters in the Evergreen…
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Madsen, Rumbaugh, Wiggins for Supreme Court | Andrew Villeneuve
As Aug. 17 draws closer, election officials have ramped up efforts to remind us that it's once again…
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Delbene strikes clear constrast with incumbent Reichert in 8th District | Andrew Villeneuve
If pundits are to be believed, the hottest contest for elected office in our state this year is…
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Time for real tax reform: Vote yes on Initiative 1098
More than a decade after Tim Eyman qualified his first anti-public services initiative to the ballot, it appears…
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Ideology isn’t the only factor shaping our political views | Andrew VIlleneuve
One of the things that has long annoyed me about political coverage in the traditional media is the…
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The first Earth Day 40 years ago | Andrew Villeneuve
Forty years ago, when the first Earth Day was organized to draw attention to the serious environmental problems…
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Time for the fight over health care legislation to end | Andrew Villeneuve
After a year of fierce debate and wrangling, Congress has finally done something that many of the people…
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U.S. Senate contest could use a jolt of electricity | Andrew Villeneuve
For much of our state's recent political history, colorful and exciting top-of-the-ticket races have been a staple of…
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Raising revenue the only cost-effective answer to budget shortfall
One of the most popular and oft-repeated cliches in American history, which comes to us from Benjamin Franklin,…