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— by Margo Vansynghel: She was just a toddler at the time, but Monyee Chau vividly remembers sitting on the counter of Chau’s Family Seafood Restaurant at the corner of Jackson Street and Fourth Avenue in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District…

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Tensions high in Olympia after transport boss’s firing

Everybody in Olympia, it seems, keeps a list.

For each party, it’s a list of things the other side has made fail — environmental issues for Democrats, for example, or social and rural economic issues for Republicans. These are tallies of past humiliations that sum up the resentments of the present, capable of driving intense bickering. And although the lists start out tucked away in pockets and…