King County renamed...sort of

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It's certainly going to be a joy to cross over the Martin Luther King Junior County county line.

Is there any other county that has a longer name than the used one? Or is this really King's new name?

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if it has to be changed, i think 'MLK county' is good enough -it gets the point across and rolls off the tongue more easily than saying the entire formal name......   

Or, alternatively, King County could stop pretending that it was named after Martin Luther King Jr., and we wouldn't have to bother with this.

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KOMO, KING, and KIRO aren't even mentioning this on their front page, so it's probably not an official full-name change.

jfern, you must consider that the people who named Rhode Island that also named it Rhode Island. They aren't exactly the brightest fries in the big meal.

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Wow! They fit every black person in the state into one picture!

Gregoire and that guy behind her are especially black.

Why did the state rename the county? That should be the county's business.

However, I do think Skykomish County is pretty cool-sounding.

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It was so nice of Gregoire to sign the bill.

It will be interesting to see how it impacts on the special election.

What special election would that be?

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It was so nice of Gregoire to sign the bill.

It will be interesting to see how it impacts on the special election.

What special election would that be?

The one the judge will be ordering.

For the governor's race? OK...