June 03, 2010: Headlines

Authentic Latin American food, and not a taco or burrito in sight

Posted Thu, Jun 3, 2:09 p.m.

By Hugo Kugiya

Eating on the Edge: At Tropicos Breeze, you'll find tender grilled beef, thick and dense tortillas, and chorizo made on site, all staples of El Salvadoran cuisine.

Metro's high wage scale factors into its bus-service equation

Posted Thu, Jun 3, 11:28 a.m.

By Douglas B. MacDonald

Top-scale wages here beat even New York's and San Francisco's. Comparisons like that should generate some buzz at a meeting tonight (June 3) of of Metro's stakeholder task force.

Public can act against BP, oil dependency

Posted Thu, Jun 3, 12:50 p.m.

By Sarah van Gelder

Rather than sit back and fume, we can all demand solutions. Here are six things the public can do.

How evading oil spill liability is helped by a Seattle tragedy

Posted Thu, Jun 3, 2 a.m.

By Bob Simmons

Deepwater Horizon's owners rely on an 1851 law with sorrowful applications to Seattle and Alaska history. The request for a liability cap of $27 million for the oil spill will have support from a case where a giant corporation got off paying $643 for the loss of 353 lives, including 149 from Seattle.

UW survey: CNN, NPR spread Tea Party's message

Posted Thu, Jun 3, 2 a.m.

By John Gastil

One might expect treatment of the Tea Party to differ significantly between major networks. But a small survey by my UW class suggests that, along with FoxNews, the Tea Party can count on CNN and NPR to get out its message.