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Herald Editorial Board

• Bob Bolerjack,
Opinion Editor

bolerjack@heraldnet.com

• Carol MacPherson,
Editorial Writer

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heraldnet.com

• Allen Funk,
Herald Publisher

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• Kim Heltne,
Assistant to the Publisher

heltne@heraldnet.com

Send letters to the editor by e-mail to letters@heraldnet.com, by fax to 425-339-3458 or mail to The Herald - Letters, P.O. Box 930, Everett, WA 98206.




WEEK IN REVIEW

Saturday
•	Fears over commercial air service at Paine Fiel...
•	Gift charity draws Snohomish County families in...
•	Donated safe gives Marysville museum a mystery

Friday

•	From behind bars, pal tells Colton Harris-Moore...
•	Commercial airlines would cause few problems at...
•	Fund set up to benefit children of couple kille...

Thursday

•	5 die of swine flu in Snohomish County
•	Red Cross honors acts of heroism, many by ordin...
•	Barista clothing rules delayed by County Council

Wednesday

•	Father gets 13 years in 6-year-old's fatal shoo...
•	‘One bad choice' blamed in death of 4 fri...
•	Reps. Larsen, Inslee split on Obama's plans for...

Tuesday

•	Lynnwood swimmer turns therapy into competitive...
•	Highway 9 crash is worst alcohol-related accide...
•	Crash victim warned his students against DUI

Monday

•	Victims of Highway 9 crash ID'd; suspect booked...
•	Suspect in officer killings eludes law in Seattle
•	New laws for Snohomish County bikini baristas?

Sunday

•	Extended lack of work takes its toll on Snohomi...
•	Four die in car crash near Marysville
•	Gathering in Tacoma mourns slain Lakewood officers

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Opinion Columnists

David Broder
• As Obama escalates, his base stays behind  December 6
• Year of living dangerously  December 4
• Health bills still aren’t realistic on the cost side  November 22
• Picking a fight is a GOP tradition  November 20
• Time has come for Obama to play his hand  November 15

John Burbank
• U.S. holiday of thanks was born in dark times  November 25
• Voters send clear signal: Leave vital services intact  November 11
• Keep services in mind when cursing taxes  October 28

Richard S. Davis
• Be skeptical of alarmists on climate  December 2
• Filling budget hole requires doing things differently  November 18
• Labor wasn’t Boeing’s only concern  November 4

Ellen Goodman
• Facts, and fact-checkers, still matter  December 5
• A backlash of mistrust  November 26
• Lipstick on a rogue  November 20
• The false choice  November 12
• What option for Afghan women?  November 7

Froma Harrop
• Politization of crime may have led to Clemmons’ release  December 6
• Working on apps, not abs  December 1
• Whom can you trust on climate change?  November 26
• Insane debate over wasted medical spending  November 24
• The civic price of courting corporations  November 22

Rick Horowitz
• There's news, and then there's Palin news November 22
• Health-care strategies: Whatever it takes November 10

David Ignatius
• Iranian nukes: a deadly serious game  December 6
• Making best of bad options in Afghanistan  December 3
• A scary political movie  November 29
• A skeptical Biden’s role  November 26
• Obama’s Afghanistan decision: How much time to buy  November 22

Charles Krauthammer
• Obama’s dispiriting call to arms  December 4
• Health care: Kill the bills, do it right  November 27
• Holder hands a platform to 9/11 architect  November 20
• Medicalizing mass murder: a new low  November 13
• The myth of 2008, demolished  November 6

Eugene Robinson
• The path not taken  December 4
• Copenhagen’s climate conundrum  December 1
• Purloined e-mails don’t change climate facts  November 29
• Cap others’ health care, but don’t touch mine  November 24
• Justice: battlefield in the war of ideas  November 22

Debra Saunders
• Huckabee handed out pardons like candy  December 4
• The Inquisition of global warming  December 1
• The shrink and the terrorist  November 10
• D.C.’s ‘Failure To Launch’ national health care policy  November 8
• The real flaw: Fox is a no-fawn zone  October 23

Larry Simoneaux
• Joy of aging: Simple wisdom comes with it  November 30
• Pro football: Long on ego, way short on character  November 23
• Angels often show up at just the right moment  November 16
• Dealing better with the monsters among us  November 9
• ‘Off’ the one phone app that appeals to Luddites  November 2

David Sirota
• Colbert conservatism  November 29
• Intelligentsia against intelligence  November 22
• Leading deficit hawks, it turns out, are only pretenders  November 15
• We are what we trade and how we trade it  November 8
• A tale of two supermen  October 23

George Will
• Another last chance for Earth's future  December 6
• This will not end well  December 2
• Rocky Mountain medical high  November 29
• Scroogenomics  November 26
• Oil’s expanding frontiers  November 22

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2.	Donated safe gives Marysville museum a mystery

3.	Fears over commercial air service at Paine Field dismissed

4.	Everett officer charged with manslaughter reveals plan for defense

5.	Merchants reject security for downtown Snohomish

6.	Holmgren interested in returning to Seahawks

7.	Friends open account for orphaned daughters of Highway 9 crash victims

8.	Crack That Safe

9.	Country singing contestant Chance McKinney amazed by his fans

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