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- An Editor's Brutal Critique of Bad Poetry
A local poet brings his manuscript to the P-I office, only to have his work butchered by an editor with a cynical, practical sense of humor.
- Spokane Gamblers Raise a War Chest to Repeal Washington’s Gambling Law
In 1904, gamblers and liquor dealers pooled money for a statewide campaign to undo the anti-gambling statute—an early industry-funded push to rewrite the rules.
- Rewriting the Pig War
Colonel Granville O. Haller disputes a revisionist history of the 1859 San Juan Island standoff.
- The Great 'New England' Fraud
A Seattle man wages war on a Boston magazine for swapping 'Rainier' for 'Tacoma' at the behest of railroad interests.
- The Fight for Tacoma’s Charter
As the city council calls for a special election to rewrite the municipal charter, citizens are warned to watch for corporate interests looking to hijack the reform movement.
- The Professional Strike-Maker
Clarence O. Pratt, a master of strategy, is rewriting the rulebook on labor disputes by trading brickbats for public opinion and the power of organized unity.
- Rewriting the City's Rulebook
Seattle officials and citizens gather to overhaul the municipal charter, seeking to clarify the responsibilities of the Mayor and the City Council.
- Seattle's 'Respectable' Citizens Attempt to Reform City Hall
A gathering of elite businessmen and professionals met at the Chamber of Commerce to form a non-partisan Municipal League, aiming to oust incumbent politicians and rewrite the city charter.
- The Judge Says the School Board Can Spend the Building Levy on Anything It Likes
A resident of the newly annexed district sued to force Seattle's school money into bricks and mortar only. Judge Osborn dissolved the injunction, sustained the board's demurrer, and sent the plaintiffs back to rewrite their complaint.
- The Great Seattle Charter Rewrite of 1892
Facing rapid urban growth, Seattle city leaders proposed an overhaul of the municipal charter, redrawing ward boundaries and formalizing the rules for public works and civil service.
- Seattle’s Growing Pains and the Charter Debate
As the city rapidly transformed, a newly formed committee of business and labor leaders debated whether to rewrite the city's charter to address corruption and municipal growth.
- The Tax Commissioner Who Couldn't Pick a Boss
J. E. Frost draws a state salary in Olympia while weighing a richer offer from the Northern Pacific — and the legislature is about to rewrite the railroad tax laws he advises on.
- Five Years Barred From Marrying Again: A Judge's Plan to Rewrite Divorce
Judge Frater's bill would fix the grounds, put every divorce on the record, let courts forbid remarriage for up to five years — and jail anyone who tries it anyway.
- The Council Keeps the Charter Pen
Seattle’s city council refused to pay for a freeholders’ election and voted to rewrite the city charter itself—setting up a fight over cost, legality and who gets to redraw city government.
- City Hall Refuses to Rewrite Its Own Rulebook — and Dares the Supreme Court to Decide
Seattle's council rejects the freeholders' petition for a new city charter, declaring the enabling law unconstitutional, and offers to bankroll a test case all the way to Olympia.
- Four Railroads, One Street Grid, and a Deal Seattle Had to Approve
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and rival lines nearly settle how their tracks will cross south of downtown—if the city council will rewrite their franchises.
- The Citizen Soldiers Rewrite the Rules of the Guard
Officers of the First Regiment, National Guard of Washington, pick apart a proposed military code — deciding who can drum a man out of a company, setting the adjutant general's salary, and asking why the troops who put down last summer's riots are still waiting to be paid.
- The Orchardist Who Told the State Its Moth Spraying Was Useless
In 1898, a North Yakima grower argued that the state's codlin-moth spray schedule did not fit the Yakima Valley's climate—and warned that apple and pear growing might be doomed without better field science.
- Who Gets to Rewrite Seattle's Charter — the Council or the People?
A crowded, argumentative hearing at City Hall: the Chamber of Commerce is accused of a 'somersault,' a lawyer sneers at 'the people,' and Dr. Ramsey answers a councilman with a line of Latin.
- The Last-Week Jam in Olympia: Liquor, Primaries and a Budget Nobody Counted
With the 60-day session expiring, Washington's lawmakers settle local option, rewrite the primary ballot, kill the initiative and abandon the joint budget committee — leaving taxpayers to foot a three-mill levy.