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MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2007
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White Center turned out in forcefor a memorial service Sunday inhonor of King County Sheriff’sDeputy Steve Cox, who was shotand killed Dec. 2, 2006.
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Ron Simsand the zoo
The blueprint for the successfulcampaign to pass parks-and-zootaxes illustrates the networks of money and influence that shapevoting and politics. And KingCounty Executive Ron Sims’fingerprints were all over thatblueprint.
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Putin partywinning vote
Unofficial results show thatRussian President Vladimir Putin’sparty won parliamentary electionsSunday. The victory paves the wayfor Putin to keep control over thecountry even after he steps downas president.
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The races for both theRepublican and Democraticnominations for president in Iowaare tossups as vote nears.
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Acall for reconciliation:
TopU.S. diplomat calls for politicalprogress, reconciliation to followlull in Iraq violence, warning of therisk of a return to even greaterviolence.
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Vote on constitutionalchanges that would extend thepower of President Hugo Chaveztoo close to call late Sunday.
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Israeli premier rejects deadline forpeace treaty with Palestinians innod to hawks.
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Joel Connelly:
A top aide toliberal presidential candidatesdelivers a scathing critique of howleft-leaning Seattle is being run.
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The legacy of Renton’s Johnathan Sim – helpingothers – will be remembered at theNew Year’s Day Rose Parade.
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High winds forecast for outlying areasMonday threaten to worsen a rash of small, scattered power outages thatstruck parts of the Puget Sound regionSunday.The wind problem loomed as an ac-companiment to the rain problem, whichcame on the heels of the weekend snowproblem. The weight of rain-soaked snowsnapped tree branches, sending themcrashing onto power lines, mainly in partsof Kitsap County. The wind could bringdown more trees overnight and Monday.The National Weather Service is warn-ing of more bad weather ahead, aftersnow fell across much of Washington onSunday, including Western Washingtonlowlands. With rising temperatures, it be-gan turning to heavy rain west of theCascades on Sunday, which is forecast to
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Seattle could see power outages today as storm blows through
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WIND ADVISORY, FLOODWATCH FOR SEATTLE
The Seattle area could see sustained winds of nearly 40 mph and gusts of nearly 60 mphon Monday, the National Weather Servicesaid in issuing a wind advisory.Aflood watch also is in effect throughWednesday afternoon in King, Snohomishand Pierce counties.
Benjamin Shanfelder signed up to buy a con-dominium on the west side of downtown Seattle’sCosmopolitan building in 2005 because it wasone of the first new downtown high-rises and wasconvenient to amenities like the downtown bustunnel and South Lake Union streetcar.But before choosing a condo on the west sideof Cosmopolitan’s 21st floor, he looked into plansfor the adjacent lot and found the city had ap-proved a 13-story office building there.“I bought with that assumption,” he said last week.Shanfelder knew other nearby projects wouldblock some of his view. But it was a nasty surprise when developers of the neighboring building, which would be 18 feet away, revised theirplanned height to 34 stories – one story higherthan Cosmopolitan.“I would lose most of my remaining view andpretty much all of my sunlight and privacy,” hesaid. Actually, he won’t: He sold his condo lastmonth and moved to Queen Anne.This tale of two towers raises questions aboutthe city’s rules for tower spacing, the process for
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ARMED WITH INFORMATION:
How prospectivecondo buyers can find out what might block a view,choke off light or take away privacy.
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It’s just a spot on the map, a loosecollection of homes spread over sev-eral rural miles east of Tacoma.There’s no mayor, not even a towncouncil. People keep largely to them-selves, making Graham, population8,000, exactly the kind of place where someone might go to disap-pear.Which is what Daniel Tavaresdid, at least for the few months be-fore Nov. 17, when he was arrestedand accused of a double murder thatleft a newlywed couple dead in theirhome.Now, however, Tavares’ case hassounded like a gong, reverberatingthrough law enforcement circles andinto the presidential campaign.Republican candidate Mitt Rom-ney, the former governor of Massa-chusetts known as a law-and-orderconservative, jumped into the fray by announcing that he had appointedthe judge who freed Tavares from aMassachusetts prison and that he was now asking her to resign for that“inexplicable lack of good judg-ment.” Another GOP front-runner, Rudy Giuliani, leaped. Judge Kathe Tutt-manhad indeed erred, the candidatesaid, but it was Romney who shouldanswer for the mistake instead of “throwing her under the bus.”In Boston, where politics is bloodsport, local media enthusiastically  joined the brawl over a pair of slay-ings 3,000 miles away.Romney “didn’t want a WillieHorton on his watch. Instead, he gets
Double slaying shows cracks in law enforcement 
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Notification procedures between policeauthorities in two states found lacking
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