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10 stories matching math
- Tacoma’s Financial Sewer Fight
A fierce public debate over whether Tacoma can afford a new water plant while simultaneously funding critical sewer infrastructure.
- The Sheep Herders Who Burned a Half-Million Dollars to Scare Coyotes
For eighteen months a Rattlesnake Hills gas well blazed away at a herders' camp — until experts did the math and a three-cornered oil race began.
- The High Price of Homesteading
A local lumber company leverages a housing-shortage pitch to sell building plans, even as court notices reveal the brutal reality of tax-foreclosure cycles for local settlers.
- Eighth Ward Republicans Revolt Over County Delegate Math
A packed Seattle club meeting denounces the King County Republican committee's apportionment and votes to carry the fight to every ward.
- The City Wants Its Fair Share: Republican Wards Revolt Over Delegate Math
Three ward clubs storm the county Republican committee to protest an apportionment that hands the countryside outsized power — and the committee adjourns without budging an inch.
- The Delegate Bunko: Party Math and a Patronage Promise
Seattle's Letter Writer Carson is accused of letting King County lose convention delegates, while Collector Saunders denies breaking a promise to a Seattle longshoremen's leader.
- The Boss’s Math Lesson
A worker asks for a raise and receives a bizarre, exhaustive breakdown explaining why he supposedly never works a full day.
- The Courthouse Math Behind a Judge-Shrinking Plan
Tacoma officials weigh merging the Pierce and Thurston judicial districts to save $10,000 a year, even as prosecutors ask for more help.
- The Unlucky Forger of Prescott
A small-time fraud artist meets a swift end to his career after failing to convince local merchants of his math.
- The Ward Clubs Revolt Over Delegate Math
Republican ward clubs across Seattle split over how county convention delegates were apportioned—and who got to name the primary judges.