Seattle Times – By Linda Shaw – Oct. 09 (News) – The campaign to bring charter schools to Washington state received big donations from Microsoft, New York state residents and hedge funds.NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

New York Times – By William Yardley – May. 28 (News Report) – South of Canada, a New Border Focus on LatinosNew York TimesSometimes they hover outside the warehouse where Mexican immigrants sell the salal they pick in the temperate rain forest. Sometimes they confront people whose primary offense, many argue, is skin tone. Those kinds of scenes might be common in towns …NewsTrust Rating: 2.0 average (not enough reviews) – See Review » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Washington Post – By Rachel Weiner – Feb. 14 (News Report) – In California, a federal appeals court struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, declaring it unconstitutional. In New Jersey, the state Senate passed a bill to legalize gay marriage, two years after a similar measure went down in defeat. And on Monday Washington became the seventh state to legalize gay marriage when Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) signed it into law. Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D) is pushing for gay marriage legislation, but he’s short a few votes and says the bill needs more Republican support. NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average – 3 Reviews » [...]

Seattle Times – By Andrew Garber – Jan. 04 (News Report) – “It’s time, it’s the right thing to do, and I will introduce a bill to do it,” Gregoire said in a statement. “Our gay and lesbian families face the same hurdles as heterosexual families — making ends meet, choosing what school to send their kids to, finding someone to grow old with, standing in front of friends and family and making a lifetime commitment,” Gregoire said. “For all couples, a state marriage license is very important. It gives them the right to enter into a marriage contract in which [...]

Seattle Times – By Lynda V. Mapes – Jul. 31 (News Analysis) – Seattle and King County propose spending more than $1.3 billion on combined sewer overflows, raising rates that already are among the highest in the country. Yet it will make little difference to the water quality of Puget Sound.NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average (not enough reviews) – See Review » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Reuters – By Laura L. Myersoe – May. 13 (News) – Washington became the first U.S. state to suspend its 2012 presidential primary election on Thursday, a move signed into law by Governor Christine Gregoire to save some $10 million from the state budget.NewsTrust Rating: 3.1 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Weekly Standard – By Jonathan V. Last – Jan. 26 (Opinion) – To go with toilets that don’t flush and light bulbs that don’t light, we now have dishwashers that don’t wash.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average – 7 Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Weekly Standard – By Jonathan V. Last – Jan. 26 (Opinion) – To go with toilets that don’t flush and light bulbs that don’t light, we now have dishwashers that don’t wash.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average – 7 Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Weekly Standard – By Jonathan V. Last – Jan. 26 (Opinion) – To go with toilets that don’t flush and light bulbs that don’t light, we now have dishwashers that don’t wash.NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average – 7 Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Associated Press – Jan. 19 (News) – A bomb left at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane was sophisticated, with a remote detonator and the ability to cause many casualties, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average – 4 Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

eatthestate.org – By Maria Tomchick – Jan. 03 (News Analysis) – Welcome to this 15th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported local stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse, and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial distractions can withstand any assault from economic hardship–or from reality. NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average (not enough reviews) – See Review » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

eatthestate.org – By Maria Tomchick – Jan. 03 (News Analysis) – Welcome to this 15th annual selection of a few of the year’s most over-hyped and underreported local stories. With the news business, especially newspapers, undergoing a not-very-slow collapse, and hard news coverage usually the first victim of tightening budgets, there was more underreported news than ever this year. Fear not, however. America’s addiction to trivial distractions can withstand any assault from economic hardship–or from reality. NewsTrust Rating: 3.6 average (not enough reviews) – See Review » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

Seattle Times – By Janet I. Tu – Dec. 24 (News Report) – In a reversal of an earlier decision, Metro Transit said Thursday it would not allow a bus ad alleging “Israeli war crimes,” saying a flood of comments has convinced officials that service could be disrupted. The ad, purchased by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, ties alleged Israeli war crimes to U.S. military aid. The ad had been set to run for a month on the sides of 12 buses starting next week. NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

Seattle Times – By Janet I. Tu – Dec. 24 (News Report) – In a reversal of an earlier decision, Metro Transit said Thursday it would not allow a bus ad alleging “Israeli war crimes,” saying a flood of comments has convinced officials that service could be disrupted. The ad, purchased by the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, ties alleged Israeli war crimes to U.S. military aid. The ad had been set to run for a month on the sides of 12 buses starting next week. NewsTrust Rating: 3.4 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

seattlepi.com – By Trevor Griffey – Nov. 03 (News Analysis) – Looking at the election results, it seems to me that the majority of voters are neither left nor right, or perhaps they are both at once in ways that don’t easily fit with either major political party’s claims. Washington state voters have consistently voted for maintaining government services, but show caution to the point of hostility to creating new ones. At the same time, voters have consistently opposed paying taxes needed to maintain current levels of government services (other than special levies for education and public safety), but show caution [...]

seattlepi.com – By Trevor Griffey – Nov. 03 (News Analysis) – Looking at the election results, it seems to me that the majority of voters are neither left nor right, or perhaps they are both at once in ways that don’t easily fit with either major political party’s claims. Washington state voters have consistently voted for maintaining government services, but show caution to the point of hostility to creating new ones. At the same time, voters have consistently opposed paying taxes needed to maintain current levels of government services (other than special levies for education and public safety), but show caution [...]

Seattle Times – By Danny Westneat – Oct. 17 (Opinion) – Remember the squatters? They took over an opulent Kirkland mansion last summer and lived it up for two weeks before the main instigator, a woman named Jill Lane, was hauled off in handcuffs for trespassing. Her tale seemed too sensational to take seriously. She insisted she wasn’t in it for money, but to make a political point: That the banks, in their frenzy to profit off the long-popped real-estate bubble, had lost track of who owns what. NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average – 3 Reviews » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

Seattle Times – By Danny Westneat – Oct. 17 (Opinion) – Remember the squatters? They took over an opulent Kirkland mansion last summer and lived it up for two weeks before the main instigator, a woman named Jill Lane, was hauled off in handcuffs for trespassing. Her tale seemed too sensational to take seriously. She insisted she wasn’t in it for money, but to make a political point: That the banks, in their frenzy to profit off the long-popped real-estate bubble, had lost track of who owns what. NewsTrust Rating: 4.0 average – 3 Reviews » – Review It         Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | [...]

Seattle Times – By Jonathan Martin – Oct. 11 (News Report) – A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters.NewsTrust Rating: 4.5 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer

Seattle Times – By Jonathan Martin – Oct. 11 (News Report) – A gold rush of local election-season advertising is pouring into Seattle media outlets, raising questions in some cases about who is trying to influence voters.NewsTrust Rating: 4.5 average (not enough reviews) – See Reviews » – Review It        Visit NewsTrust | About | Sign Up | Disclaimer