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Amazon employees tend to their dogs in a canine play area adjacent to where construction continues on three large, glass-covered domes as part of an expansion of the Amazon.com campus, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in downtown Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Amazon sparks a Seattle battle between moderate and progressive liberals

Tom Rogan · October 17, 2017 5:02 pm

It's worth wondering why Sen. Murray has remained silent on the credible, and abhorrent, accusations that have rocked her own state's largest city. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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Sen. Patty Murray donated maximum campaign contribution to former Seattle Mayor accused of sexual abuse: Report

Emily Jashinsky · September 13, 2017 6:09 pm

Cillizza's summation of the political news cycle: Two wacky stories about politicians behaving badly. (CNN/YouTube)

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Media bias in 140 characters or fewer

Becket Adams · September 13, 2017 4:52 pm

The scandal had already prompted Murray to opt not to seek re-election. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray resigns after fifth sexual abuse accusation

Diana Stancy Correll · September 12, 2017 8:54 pm

House Speaker Paul Ryan speaks to workers at the Boeing Co. and in view of a Rolls Royce Trent 1000 engine for a 787 jet, behind, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

What it’s like to tour Boeing with House Speaker Paul Ryan

Joseph Lawler · August 28, 2017 9:30 am

The Seattle Police Department trolled Infowars' founder Alex Jones after the conspiracy theorist said he had hot coffee thrown in his face in the city.

Seattle police department trolls Infowars’ Alex Jones

Caitlin Yilek · August 19, 2017 1:55 am

Seattle's city council voted unanimously to create a new income tax on high-earners. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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In Seattle, tax fairness gets a test run

April Ponnuru · August 15, 2017 2:58 pm

Washington's Republican Party has also called for "civil disobedience," and is urging its members to "refuse to comply, file or pay." (iStock)

Seattle sued over controversial income tax on the wealthy

Sean Langille · August 9, 2017 6:51 pm

Emails between the Seattle mayor's office and an economist at the University of California, Berkeley show that the mayor's staff tried to deliberately undermine a University of Washington study showing that the city's $15 minimum wage ordinance was harming the city's low-income workers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Emails show Seattle mayor worked to undermine $15 minimum wage study

Sean Higgins · July 27, 2017 7:16 pm

Advocates for a higher wage have criticized the report's methodology, but one author shrugged it off, saying it was to be expected given the groups' politics. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP)

Liberals try to refute Seattle minimum wage study

Sean Higgins · July 6, 2017 4:01 am

No matter the issue, conservatives can all do a better job of making arguments from principle rather than potential consequences. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Have conservatives completely forgotten how to make a moral argument?

Jason Russell · June 29, 2017 8:50 pm

Study: Seattle Minimum Wage Increase Reduced Low-Wage Income

Mark Hemingway · June 26, 2017 4:42 pm