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Thursday, March 7, 2002
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Senate panel OKs worker pay freeze
OLYMPIA -- A state Senate committee voted to freeze state employee pay late Wednesday, using some of the saved money to blunt the increase in health care premiums facing state workers.
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Lawmakers spar over budget
OLYMPIA -- Senate Republicans and House Democrats jockeyed for budget-negotiating position with their Senate Democratic counterparts Wednesday, each offering suggestions for fixing the state budget.
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Natural gas pipeline gets environmental approval
THURSTON COUNTY -- A federal energy agency ruled this week that a 49-mile natural gas pipeline from Rainier to Satsop could be built without significant environmental harm.
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City halts conference center plan
OLYMPIA -- A Spokane developer's hopes of building a downtown conference center now rest with the state Legislature.
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Al-Qaida, Taliban deaths in hundreds
WASHINGTON -- U.S. forces and their Afghan allies engaged al-Qaida and Taliban fighters in fierce close combat in the hills and mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as both sides poured in reinforcements for the largest ground battle of the war.
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Ingenuity, lethal weapons sway battle
Associated Press reporter Jonathan Ewing has spent nine days in the battle zone of eastern Afghanistan with the 101st Airborne Division during Operation Anaconda. Here is his account of one confrontation.
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Social Security budget tap: $1.8 trillion
WASHINGTON -- Democrats turned up the heat Wednesday in their quest to make Social Security a wedge issue in this fall's congressional elections.
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Spring is a film lover's fantasy
From "The Time Machine" to "Spider-Man," from "Ice Age" to "The Scorpion King," fantasy reigns supreme in spring movies.
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Capitol plans film festival
OLYMPIA -- The Olympia Environmental Film Festival returns for a second go-round Friday and Saturday at the Capitol Theater.
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Olympia Environmental Film Festival
- What: Two days of films presented in cooperation with the Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival.
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Tenino triumphs
YAKIMA -- Ghosts of playoffs past chased Sarah Hollingsworth all around the court.
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Residents await new area park
OLYMPIA -- If you stop in at the San Francisco Street Bakery, a neighborhood association meeting or a class at Roosevelt Elementary School, chances are that you'll hear the buzz about the new park.
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Skate park proposal hits speed bump
OLYMPIA -- Thurston County commissioners learned this week that placing a regional park for BMX bicycles, inline skates and skateboards on an old county landfill might not be an easy task.
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Blanket primary back in court
OLYMPIA -- After staying out of the headlines since summer, the tussle over the future of the state's legally embattled blanket primary goes before a federal district court judge in Tacoma on Friday.
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