The state Department of Corrections has released its much-awaited "preliminary list" of counties that aren't getting their share of work-release prisoners, or, in DOC's wording, that "have an unmet need for additional work-release facilities."The counties, or groups of counties, are:-Chelan/Douglas/Kittitas-Clark/Skamania-Grays Harbor/Mason-Lewis-SnohomishThe list stems from a…
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At Crosscut, Knute Berger has an outstanding description of -- if not explanation for -- Seattle's peculiar distaste for the sorts of confrontational politics and that much of the rest of the country considers simply the noisy foundry of policy-making.From the column:"An online critic recently…
Oh, where to begin...How about with MTV's roundup of actual darkhorse presidential candidates, the slate of which is summed up well by the article's headline:'Star Trek' Extra, Fascist, Horseshoer, Dark Priest: The Other Presidential CandidatesAmong the contenders:From the "Vampires, Witches, and Pagans Party," we have…
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