The plague of the jocks

It's the greatest story ever told. Well, OK, it's not. But it's one you'll be reading a lot about in coming days. It begins like this: In the reign of Gregory the XL, there was no joy in the Land of Sasquatch ...

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The big shakedown: Going after a conspiracy

Following a breakthrough in the case against Seattle's system of cops on the take, the feds jump on the paddywagon. Part 2

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The big shakedown: Seattle's legacy of crooked cops

Raids on the Colacurcio family's strip clubs this week conjure images of gambling halls, go-go girls, crooked cops, and a grim chapter of recent Seattle history. Part 1

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Remembering Bobby: What if

Forty years ago today, I spent the day on a packed airliner over the Atlantic, bound from Glasgow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

The world was stumbling through a turbulent year. During my year's study at Edinburgh University, I had glimpsed my society from abroad. I'd watched the news clips of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and of the rioting that followed. I'd watched the Johnson administration drawn ever deeper into a war that made no sense. My British friends were astounded that America in the 20th century seemed determined to repeat each and every mistake that the British had made in the 19th.

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Take me out of the ballgame

This is the year to quit. This is the season to kick the habit. No patches, no pills, no support groups. Just say no.

To baseball, that is. It's time to kick it, and the hometown team — God bless their mediocre souls — is making it easy.

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Puget Sound perennial

Washington's magnificent inland sea is back at the top of the region's to-do list. But while virtually everybody yearns to do something about pollution, there is neither political nor scientific consensus as to what exactly is wrong, let alone what to do about it.

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Seattle goes gah-gah over choo-choos

As Seattle considers a plan to extend the South Lake Union Streetcar line, it's time to decide whether returning to a 19th-century transportation method is really the answer.

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Northwest travel: Five courses up the Inside Passage

Many Seattleites have either never traveled the Inside Passage or seen only parts of it, remotely, from the deck of a cruise ship. A trip through on a ferry is well worth the time.

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Evolution of a think tank

A journalist comes of age with Bruce Chapman, watching him launch Seattle's Discovery Institute and the intelligent design movement.

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