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These changes will affect employees in the Guild in all our major departmentsAdvertising, Circulation, Composing and News. The Times says it is making these changes in an effort to limit increases in the cost of health care. The rising price of health care is a national crisis. The employer-based system of health insurance is failing [...]

This year’s official draft party has been cancelled by the Sonics ownership group by-the-way. The legal case of forcing the out-of-state Sonics ownership group to live up to their Key Arena lease should be open-and-shut. Key Arena was renovated with public funding, in good faith, during the early 1990s with the expectation that a major [...]

The Washington Law Review calls dibs on this note topic. The “Super” hasn’t been in the logo since 1995, and most mentions of the team haven’t used it since, well, ever. Is the anchor liable for the consequential damages? Initially, Seattle did not think it necessary to provide a new basketball arena after it had [...]

With Shaquille O’Neal gone, the Heat may look to go big but there is no big man worthy of taking that high. The entire roster is expendable aside from Wade and if they don’t land a top 3 pick they just might trade it. Seattle Supersonics (19.9% chance of winning lottery)- They hit the jackpot [...]

Attorneys for the City of Seattle, as part of their legal tussle with Sonic owners over the KeyArena lease, have discovered some shocking emails. E-mail messages between SuperSonics owner Clay Bennett and team co-owners appear to show Bennett misled NBA commissioner David Stern on the group’s intentions to move the team to Oklahoma City before [...]