A reader sends a letter regarding my recent article on the 520 bridge on this piece of paper:
To Dominic Holden
Thank you for your 520 bridge article. I wondered if you know what may be the real reason for cracks on the bridge. My guess is that [...]
I'm writing right now from the cozy living room of the People's Republic of Koffee—1718 12th Ave—which until a month and a half ago occupied a small open-air nook in the building next door. Owner/operator Kevin Hyder recently renovated and moved into the new space, a cute old house on' [...]
At her Cat House & Shooting Gallery, JeanC posts: Picked up a knock-off snuggie at Rite Aid on Saturday, they had them for $8 as opposed to the $14 for the real thing. So I had to get the zebra stripped one, I now match the throw pillows on the [...]
A study finds that double-dipping is gross: "...three to six double dips in one bowl transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eaters' mouths to the remaining dip." Eaters' mouths!
One all-purpose hint: "Pick thick."
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[...]...because liberals are pissed.
The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll coming out later today will show opposition to the health care bill growing—mainly from disappointed liberals, who are very much disappointed to see the public option getting thrown out. The poll has 47% saying the Obama health care plan is [...]
On Monday, the Seattle City Council passed a slate of legislative priorities for the 2010 session in a Olympia. Among them, the council unanimously backed sane, fiscally responsible pot laws. They want the legislature to "reclassify possession of small amounts of marijuana from a misdemeanor to a civil" [...]
Idaho Gov. Butch Otter has proclaimed Thursday will be “Vernon J. Baker Day,” in honor of the St. Maries resident who is the only living African-American Medal of Honor recipient from World War II. Read more.
[...]Here's the NYT piece from earlier in the week.
Like universal health care, every other industrialized country in the world already has a value-added tax (as do about 100 emerging countries). And also like universal health care, this once-taboo policy option has recently been invoked, at times begrudgingly, by many [...]
This week in the book section, I tell the complete story of Elliott Bay Book Company's move. I also wonder about a few decisions that the store is making about the new space:
Rumors are circulating at other Seattle bookstores that the new Elliott Bay might not [...]
So for a pedestrian in Sandpoint, it’s easy to tell where passing cars are registered, and there has been a noticeable change in drivers of 7B vehicles since a second pedestrian was killed in town a few weeks ago. On the whole, 7B cars [...]
Along with a few others, I'll be on KUOW's The Conversation in a few minutes (for a few minutes) to offer my pick for the most underreported story of 2009.
That's 94.9 FM starting at noon. And if you want to tell me what I should pick, the comment thread' [...]
• The J&M in Pioneer Square, which closed down and had an auction this past summer, appears poised to reopen and serve drinks again. The building's owner, Jack Buttnick, was a bit cagey (if courtly—this is a man with a wonderful [...]
In my ongoing, extremely spotty coverage of literary artifacts that seem incongruous with their owners' books and sold for ridiculous amounts of money:
Charles Dickens's toothpick went for $9,150 at auction, sold by the heirs of the Barnes & Noble fortune. It was engraved, retractable, and' [...]
This image provided by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Tuesday shows hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years [...]
The Healthcare Debate Rages On: "Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean argued Wednesday that the health care overhaul bill taking shape in the Senate further empowers private insurers at the expense of consumer choice."
Things That Go Boom Pt. 1: The Mayon volcano in the Philippines is starting to [...]
Lieberman is a turncoat. He is the worst of worst, a complete sellout to the special interests. He is a symbol of what has gone wrong with our government.
Howard Dean is so right here. There is compromise and then there is capitulation. The latter is what has happened to health [...]
The nonprofit board that oversees Seattle’s struggling classical music station KING-FM met last Thursday as part of continuing efforts to address revenue shortfalls that led to layoffs in September. Apparently, no verdicts yet, despite months of wrestling with the issues.
KING-FM was gifted to a non-profit organization by the Bullitt [...]
Sitting unsold up in the loft is poor Globo—a seven-foot-high remnant from Mark Calderon's fall show. With a core of Styrofoam and cement, sheathed in pimpled lead, the hulking edifice doesn't inspire much love. The bulbous tower is suggestive of o...' [...]
