M's
great season almost greater Originally published
December 30, 2001
No
matter what the baseball experts or your next-door neighbor
might say, no one had any idea that 2001 would be the year
of the Seattle Mariners. click
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Hopes
for new center still alive Originally published
December 29, 2001
OLYMPIA -- It's been a year of feast or famine, drought or flood
in South Sound, and the efforts to create a conference center
in Olympia have followed a similar ebb-and-flow pattern.
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2001
a year for murder, old and new Originally published
December 28, 2001
The
year 2001 saw a break in a series of Western Washington slayings
that had been one of the most notorious strings of unsolved
murders in American history. click
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Legislature's
year mired in deadlock Originally published December 26, 2001
OLYMPIA
-- One story told in the halls of the 2001 Legislature went
this way: Lawmakers weren't really living through one of the
state's longest and most paralyzing sessions on record.
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Stormy
year for health care Originally published December 23, 2001
THURSTON
COUNTY -- If the condition of health care in South Sound were
depicted in paintings, 2001 would have begun as a gray day with
storm clouds on the horizon -- but with a hopeful ray of sunshine
breaking through the clouds.
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