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DTNelson's comments
Posted Fri, Mar 2, 11:05 a.m.
"... even though they're a straw poll that selects delegates who may or may not wind up picking other delegates to support the 'winner.'" Boy, you REALLY don't know how the process works.
MOREPosted Tue, Dec 20, 3:45 p.m.
That artist's rendering shows the city's next planned affront to mobility, one which few are aware of: The removal of the 2nd Avenue Extension. Our Dear Leaders really are trying their hardest to make it difficult to get around. It is referenced on this page, down towards the bottom: http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/kingstreethub.htm
MOREPosted Wed, Jul 27, 8 p.m.
I can tell this is a work of utter fantasy, because there won't be any Microsoft stores in 2021.
MOREPosted Fri, May 20, 8:17 p.m.
I have been told by old-timers that the neighborhood that was bulldozed for the Fair was Seattle's red-light district, which was one of the reasons it was chosen for bulldozing (and also one of the reasons some were mad it was chosen). Perhaps someone could dig into that angle.
MOREPosted Fri, Apr 15, 1:16 p.m.
The most egregious gerrymander in our state is the 11th and 37th legislative districts. Just look at that map. I recall during the last redistricting, the Republican commissioners kept proposing maps that would fix that, creating a compact south Seattle district and a compact-ish Tukwila-Renton district, but the Democratic commissioners ...
MOREPosted Fri, Nov 12, 2:49 p.m.
Professor Morrill's ideas are interesting, but the Washington State Redistricting Commission will do whatever it pleases when it convenes in 2011 to redraw the Legislative and Congressional districts. And a body that would give us egregious gerrymanders like the 11th and 37th Legislative Districts is capable of ANYthing.
MOREPosted Sat, Oct 9, 12:13 p.m.
Seattle would be a little town, Spokane-by-the-Sea, were it not for Bill Allen. Boeing would have gone the way of Vought, Curtiss, and Martin were it not for Bill Allen. The recent and current leadership of Boeing couldn't carry Bill Allen's jock. Read the first two paragraphs of Fortune's article ...
MOREPosted Thu, Sep 30, 3:23 p.m.
And we tear down an amusement park and replace it with The Emperor's New Glass Museum.
MOREPosted Tue, Sep 1, 8:52 p.m.
The only thing that should be done, rearranging-streets-in-South-Lake-Union-wise, is Roy Street should be reconnected via an underpass under Aurora. That would make everything better for everyone, especially people going to Lower and South Slope Queen Anne, and except maybe Paul Allen.
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