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Children's Health

Bush sets Medicaid limits-U.S. notifies states that they cannot expand eligibility for recipients
The New York Times- Also seen in the Tacoma News Tribune  

January 4, 2008

By Robert Pear

 

WASHINGTON-- The Bush administration is imposing restrictions on the ability of states to expand eligibility for Medicaid, in an effort to prevent them from offering coverage to families of modest incomes who, the administration argues, may have access to private health insurance. Washington hasn't yet experienced pushback from the federal government, said Christina Hulet, health policy adviser to Gov. Chris Gregoire.

 

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Education  

Gates wants education to be No. 1 voter priority

Bloomberg News-Seattle P-I

Friday, January 4, 2008

By Matthew Keenan and William McQuillen

 

Bill Gates is spending $30 million on the U.S. presidential campaign for a cause, not a candidate. The United States' richest man plans to make education the No. 1 domestic priority with voters.

 

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Martin Luther King Elementary nears its end-School could be leased, sold if declared surplus

Seattle P-I

January 6, 2008

By Jessica Blanchard

 

Seattle Public Schools could take another step this week toward selling the former Martin Luther King Elementary, the tiny school whose 2006 closure sparked a lawsuit and fierce protests from community activists.

 

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From feds on down, AP students are being neglected

Seattle P-I

January 4, 2008

Op-Ed By Walt Gardner

 

Faced with the daunting challenges posed by the new global economy, the U.S. is squandering one of its greatest assets in the form of its gifted and talented students. Yet the issue remains curiously absent from public debate among presidential candidates.

 

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Seattle school parents pressured to pay

Seattle Times

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Op-Ed By Alison Krupnick

 

It's time to call attention to a key issue plaguing Seattle Public Schools -  class size. Despite public comments from district officials challenging the relevance of class size to academic achievement, every teacher I've spoken with has cited large class size as one of the biggest impediments to effective pedagogy.

 

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Children's Issues  

Working Dad: Dads can do plenty to help their daughters with image issues

Seattle P-I

December 27, 2007

By Paul Nyhan

 

My daughter sat in her creaky, wooden high chair last week, blissfully happy in her chubby 2-year-old frame, and I worried. I worried because in a few years this toddler will stand at the edge of the nation's body-image vortex, swirling with size 00 jeans, underfed celebrities glorified in gossip magazines, the latest "America's Next Top Model" and an unrelenting marketing drumbeat that skinnier is better.

 

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Bills to take aim at state gangs-Study group crafts 'high-priority' plans to cut crime

Seattle P-I

January 8, 2008

By Hector Castro

 

State lawmakers who have spent the better part of a year studying gangs in Washington are preparing a package of bills for this legislative session, hoping their colleagues will adopt several recommendations they have developed to fight the growth of criminal gangs.

 

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Sex offenders at state center getting porn

Seattle Times

Monday, January 7, 2008

By Jonathan Martin

 

The state's treatment center on McNeil Island for its most predatory sex offenders is surrounded by concertina wire and security cameras. Mail and visitors are searched, and the staff can't even bring iPods to work. But that hasn't kept some men held at the Special Commitment Center (SCC) from getting their hands on thousands of images of child pornography.

 

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Fugitive linked to child pornography
Seattle Times

Monday, January 7, 2008

By Sharon Pian Chan

 

Puyallup police said that an Oregon fugitive had child pornography in his possession after they arrested him in an identity-theft case. He has not been charged with anything related to child abuse or pornography. Andrew Kowalczyk, 33, was charged with several counts of identity theft and forgery and is being held in Pierce County Jail, according to the police.


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Stop the porn cache

Seattle Times

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Editorial

 

Puyallup police deserve praise for creative detective work leading to the location of two young girls whose photographs were part of a large pornography cache. When police arrested an Oregon fugitive last week, it was on identity-theft charges. Forensics specialists then found images on a camera and computer depicting hard-core child pornography involving girls between the ages of 5 and 8.


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Immigration

Welcome immigrants into democratic process

Seattle P-I

January 6, 2008

Op-Ed by Ethan Lo

 

Immigrants are America. Everyone living here today has roots tracing back to someone who took the plunge. But while there has been much commotion over the enormous number of people immigrating in, the way we ignore those immigrants already here is a critical issue.

 

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