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Unemployed restaurant critic: ‘I find neither shame nor deprivation in food stamps’

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A heartbreaking, heart-warming story from Ed Murrieta: A butcher shared with me the advice his dairy-farmer father fed him: Stay in the food business and you will always eat. I’ve worked in the food business for a good chunk of my life — first in my parents’ restaurants, then as a food writer and restaurant critic, followed by post-culinary-school stints as a baker and food-marketing consultant, then again as a restaurant critic, and, until this past fall, as publisher of…

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Must-read: How an underdog named Mike McGinn took Seattle’s City Hall

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Moments after the first returns were posted in the Seattle mayor’s race, Mike McGinn’s volunteer field director took the stage at the Capitol Hill party. “It’s still really, really close,” Derek Farmer shouted. “We need everybody that has a phone to help.” What happened next has become campaign lore among McGinn supporters. Partygoers set down their beers, accepted scripts, phone sheets and pay-as-you-go cellphones, and The War Room bar became an impromptu phone bank to contact voters who hadn’t yet…

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