Posted Wed, Oct 1, 10:01 a.m.

Nitpick department: No disagreement with Compton's analysis, but he makes two factual errors: 1) Doha is not an "inaccessible country." It's not a country at all. It's the capital of Qatar, and served by more than two dozen international airlines. 2) Seattle did not "host APEC a year earlier." It ...

Posted Wed, Jun 25, 9:40 a.m.

Regional Transit Needs Regional Solutions: If the transit plannners in the Puget Sound region are seriously committed to improving service to a point where people will want to use it, the first step ought to be to eliminate the crazy quilt of service providers. In the city of Seattle alone, ...

Posted Wed, May 7, 10:26 a.m.

Tacoma has it right: The model for municipal broadband is Tacoma, where the city-owned Click! network offers cable TV and high-speed Internet services at rates that are competitive with commercial providers. As fas as I know, the service is self-supporting. The competition has forced the commercial providers to hold down ...

Posted Fri, Apr 25, 3:02 p.m.

RE: Thank You Deborah Jacobs [for what ??!]: The general card catalog is long gone, but the separate index of Seattle people, places and events, with pointers to specific newpaper articles and other resources has been mercifully saved. That's the card catalog up on the ninth floor. As ar as ...

Posted Fri, Apr 25, 9:52 a.m.

RE: Thank You Deborah Jacobs [for what ??!]: There's a lot that can be said about Ms. Jacob's impact at SPL, but "effective" does not always equal "positive." The downtown library is a triumph of form over function: one-way escalator, little or no consideration for the relationship among different spaces ...

Posted Thu, Mar 13, 10:29 a.m.

It's a Bad Plan: The new Master Plan creates some serious problems for the big festivals that account for more than 20% of Seattle Center's annual attendance. Sound from that new amphitheatre in the Memorial Stadium space will spill out to the west, making the new open space all but ...

Posted Fri, Dec 7, 10:05 a.m.

Why contribute at all?: It seems like contributing money to a political candidate is enabling that candidate to pay for junk mail, robot phone calls and radio/tv commercials. Not contributing could be the best way to reduce or eliminate these irritations.

Posted Mon, Nov 5, 6:53 p.m.

Robot Calls: Robot calls (and broadcast ads) are the reason that I will not contribute money to any political candidate. Why should I pay for my own torture? I have to believe that a ballot measure that made such calls illegal or extended the "do not call" list to electioneering ...

Posted Tue, Aug 21, 10:17 a.m.

Out of sight, out of mind: Unless you're a Folklife Festival volunteer, you probably never knew that the Pavilion existed, did you? Placing the skateboard park in that location meets the unstated goal of keeping the skateboarders invisible relative to the more prominent features of Seattle Center -- the Space ...