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"Prison Not Best Way to Deal with Drug Abuse" by Roger Lauen & Daniel Merkle  Seattle P-I   3/24/05

State legislators weigh in on recruitment in schools - Boston Globe - Melanthia Mitchell, AP|  February 12, 2006

Lobbyist's Friendly Persuasion... Seattle P-I Jan 26, 2006 (Susan Paynter on FCWPP lobbyist Roger Kluck)
"The Plight of Puget Sound's Working Poor" Seattle P-I, Three Part series, 2005
"Homelessness a statewide issue" by Timm Ormsby & Rosemary McAuliffe  Seattle P-I 4/21/05
"Society improves by changing behavior" by Peter Youngers  Seattle P-I 4/21/05
"Prison Not Best Way to Deal with Drug Abuse" by Roger Lauen & Daniel Merkle
Seattle P-I   3/24/05
"The Human Factor: Why Another Exon Valdez Could Happen." 
Seattle P-I, March 2005
(A four-part series)
"The Working Poor" Seattle P-I, March 2005  (A three-part series with follow-ups)
"New loan requirements could increase price for buyers of manufactured & mobile homes"  
Seattle Times, September 14, 2003
"Americans Are in a State of Denial About Race" (I-200) Seattle Times Editorial.
"Washington State Wilderness Areas" Seattle Times article, May 29, 1998
"The Price of Power"  Washington Free Press - The electric power industry.
Public Schools and US Military  - Washington Free Press.   Military recruiting in the public schools.
"Uninformed Consent" Seattle Times, March, 2001   A 5-part series on experiments at Fred Hutchinson
"Death Penalty: Uncertain Justice" Seattle Post Intelligencer, August, 2001  A 3-part series on the Death Penalty