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    • Danny Westneat | Homeless: new growth industry

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      Something is ragged in the Emerald City. We've had our frenzies, like the dot-coms and real estate. Now it feels like there's an anti-boom, an echo of the others. A week ago Friday wasn't especially cold or windy or any of the other things that drive street people inside. But at Operation Nightwatch, a ministry for the homeless, it was a night for the record books anyway. Near midnight, after finding spots to sleep for 175 people, workers gave bus tickets and blankets to 42 more. Then sent them wandering off down the street.

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      King County's new face is MLK

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      King County Executive Ron Sims and former King County Councilman Bruce Laing, who were instrumental in the county's ceremonially renaming itself after King in 1986, also took the podium. It took nearly two decades for the state to make the change official.

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    • GOP operative nabbed in teen sex sting

      Posted by Jeff from Rawstory

      An arrest is sending shockwaves through the halls of local political power. Larry Corrigan has worked on a number of Republican campaigns, but now he's in jail after he was caught in an Internet sting, accused of trying to solicit sex from young girls.Corrigan's orange jail uniform he was wearing in court Thursday is a far cry from the business sui

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    chuckt comments on:

    GOP operative nabbed in teen sex sting

    A more complete version of this story is here.

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    1:03 pm 12/01/06
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