The Race to Alaska is a 'call to the heart'
This story originally appeared in The Port Townsend Leader. There is something Northwest boaters need to understand about the Race
Ross Anderson
Ross Anderson is a former Seattle Times reporter who now lives in Port Townsend.
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Reconstructing a whale that washed up dead
Nine years later, an orca skeleton takes shape at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. The work-in-progress is on display this weekend in Port Townsend.
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Oil spill's challenges engulf NOAA Seattle team
A Seattle-based NOAA team is in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico oil-spill crisis, and the scientists are hunkered down for the long haul.
Politics
All the news that ain't
A recovering campaign reporter witnesses the demise of journalistic objectivity, and wonders what will replace it.
Politics
Remembering Bobby: What if
Forty years ago today, I spent the day on a packed airliner over the Atlantic, bound from Glasgow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The world was stumbling through a turbulent year [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968]. During my year's study at Edinburgh University, I had glimpsed