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| 1 | Group will try again for state initiative to curb illegal immigrants' benefits | Local News |
| Undaunted by a string of past failures, a group of Washington residents will try for the fifth straight year to collect signatures for an initiative that would make Washington less attractive to illegal immigrants. | ||
| 2/2/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | B.C. bound? Don't forget to pack your passport | Local News |
| Such inconsistencies could result in hassles for unprepared Americans traveling to British Columbia by car, train or boat during the Winter Olympic Games next month. Officials with the Canada Border Services Agency say that while they try to inform visitors about the U.S. | ||
| 1/25/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Seattle organizations ready to aid Haitians stay in U.S. | Local News |
| Immigrants from quake-ravaged Haiti who are in this country illegally may begin pursuing a little-known status offered by the federal government that would allow them to remain in the U.S. and work here legally. Some 535,000 Haitian immigrants are believed to be living in the U.S. | ||
| 1/21/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | On gay rights, world, U.S. continue to shift | Local News |
| In the two months since Washington voters expanded the state's domestic-partnership law, the global landscape of the gay-rights movement has continued to shift. | ||
| 1/7/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | Patty Cacak, municipal bonds expert, dies at age 55 | Obituaries |
| For 26 years, Patty Cacak and Al Worden had a running wager: Over lunch each November they'd make a prediction for the interest rate on 30-year government bonds for a particular day the following year. | ||
| 1/7/2010 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Online service to match students with scholarships | Local News |
| Take Soroptimist International of Seattle Metropolitan, a women's group that each year awards a number of small scholarships to single mothers who want to go back to college or attend for the first time. | ||
| 12/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Supreme Court to decide soon on Ref. 71 signature case | Local News |
| The U.S. Supreme Court will decide by mid-January whether to consider the thorny issues surrounding public release of 138,000 signatures collected this summer as part of Referendum 71. John Doe vs. | ||
| 12/29/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Washington is on track to add seat in U.S. House | Politics |
| If population trends announced Wednesday hold, Washington could be in line to pick up a new congressional seat — its 10th — after next year's census count, a new study finds. All we need is 25,000 more people by April 1, and at the rate we're growing that seems a pretty good bet. | ||
| 12/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Family's cookie tradition sweetens season for food-bank users | Local News |
| Something tugged at Annabelle Ridge's heart two years ago when she saw people queued up outside the Rainier Valley Food Bank, the long line snaking down the block. | ||
| 12/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | Coalition pushes for immigration reform | Local News |
| A largely pro-immigrant reform measure introduced in Congress on Tuesday was celebrated at rallies in Seattle and across the country even as critics declared it an affront to hardworking Americans struggling in a weak job market. | ||
| 12/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | 2010 U.S. census count could be tricky | Local News |
| With just 10 questions on next year's form, this would seem simple enough. Yet the count is likely to be not just the most costly but possibly one of the most difficult ever staged. | ||
| 12/6/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Domestic partner measure kicks in | Politics |
| The final piece of the state's domestic-partnership law, approved by voters a month ago after a failed attempt by opponents to get it repealed, goes into effect today. | ||
| 12/3/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | Pacific pair accused of smuggling, enslaving illegal Mexican immigrants | Local News |
| For at least three years, a couple in the town of Pacific ran a smuggling operation that brought illegal immigrants from Mexico to be housed in the garage of their home, where the immigrants lived as indentured servants while paying off their smuggling debt, according to court documents. | ||
| 11/27/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Illegal workers quietly let go | Local News |
| A janitorial company owned by a local conservative talk-radio host is among the early targets of a new strategy by the Obama administration to thin the ranks of illegal immigrants by going after the companies that hire them. | ||
| 11/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Former drug informant sees hope for legal status fade | Local News |
| For Ernesto Gamboa, the Salvadoran who spent 13 years as a confidential informant for local law enforcement, the prospects of gaining legal status in the U.S. have grown increasingly dim. The U.S. | ||
| 11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Lt. governor's son shot by co-worker in Kent; gunman then shot self | Local News |
| The owner of a Kent auto-painting business shot the son of Lt. Gov. Brad Owen on Monday before turning the gun on himself after a workplace dispute. The man is a close friend of Owen's, somebody with whom he often hunts and fishes, the lieutenant governor said Monday. | ||
| 11/9/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Gay-rights support stops at Cascades | Politics |
| The lopsided results over expansion of the state's domestic-partnership law, which voters overall were approving, show the challenge supporters of gay rights face in winning over all Washingtonians as they seek full equality. | ||
| 11/5/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | 'Everything but marriage' backers smelling victory | Local News |
| The referendum to expand the state's domestic-partnership law was winning approval by nearly 2-to-1 in King County, where about 30 percent of the state's voters reside, and was also passing in other Puget Sound-area counties. | ||
| 11/4/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Referendum 71 foes sue to raise donation limits | Politics |
| With some major funding in the offing, the Family Policy Institute of Washington, through its newly formed Family political-action committee (PAC), filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tacoma late Wednesday. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Anti-Ref. 71 group sues to lift contribution limit, keep donors secret | Local News |
| A Lynnwood-based organization that opposes the state's domestic partnership law and is working to defeat Referendum 71 has filed suit in U.S. District Court in Tacoma seeking to circumvent campaign contribution limits of $5,000 and to keep secret the names of those who make smaller donations. | ||
| 10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||