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Burien Mayor Jimmy Matta recounts how the "Fantastic Four" (of which he is a part) swept last year's council elections, preventing a right wing takeover of the city
By 2016, more than half of states controlled by Democrats had restored education spending per pupil to 2009 levels, but the same was true in only five of twenty-two states controlled by Republicans.
East Link night construction work at NE 148th Avenue; published in memory of Kiewit foreman Walter Burrows, who fell to his death from a column last month while working on this project
Young people are our future! Niko Battle spoke articulately for lifesaving gun safety laws at the Alliance for Gun Responsibility's fifth annual luncheon
Bid cards in the air were a common sight at today's luncheon, where The Alliance for Gun Responsibility announced it has secured $3 million to fund its next gun safety initiative
Highlights from the final episode of SNL’s forty-third season:
The cold open: Robert Mueller (Robert De Niro) happens upon Donald Trump’s (Alec Baldwin) dinner with Rudy Giuliani (Kate McKinnon), Michael Cohen (Ben Stiller) and Eric and Donald Trump Jr. (Mikey Day, Alex Moffat)
Progressives have to speak to those left behind by wrenching economic and social change. But our voices are as authentic, and as worthy, as anyone else’s. I am a real American, too. Deal with it.
Flashback to NPI's 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala: First Lady Trudi Inslee's rhubarb pie was a favorite item at the Dessert Dash (Photo: Theresa Curry Almuti/NPI)
Flashback to NPI's 2018 Spring Fundraising Gala: Master of Ceremonies Darcy Burner with Major General Paul Eaton (Retired), NPI founder Andrew Villeneuve, and NPI President Rick Hegdahl (Photo: Theresa Curry Almuti/NPI)
Trump has overwhelmed the news industry, exhausting capacity and journalists alike. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has been the subject of more legitimate corruption stories in the past couple months than eight years of President Barack Obama’s full cabinet combined. Pruitt’s ethics scandals demand so much attention that reports on his toxic influence on U.S. environmental policy are overlooked.
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