Old Galoot

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Nice execution, Seahawks

Posted Mon, Nov 23, 1:45 p.m.

"Hawk partisans watched the televised game with horrified fascination, no doubt wondering anew how their supposed resurrected dream team of two months ago suddenly is a 3-7 nightmare." Who really believed that this team was "resurrected?" This was an 8-8 team at best at the beginning of the year. Against, ...

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Hitting close to home on affordability

Posted Thu, Feb 21, 10:36 a.m.

RE: housing: They got that stuff at big box retail stores. According to this link, the US went from 5 square feet of retail space per capita in 1970 to over 20 today. http://www.energydesignresources.com/docs/end-38.pdf So for every suburban housing development, come the requisite strip malls, big boxes, parking lots and ...

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Want to save Puget Sound? Do the science first

Posted Sun, Sep 9, 10:10 a.m.

Follow the power: As you wrote a couple years ago, Daniel, the Clean Water Act, nor any laws are fully implemented or enforced by the state. An examination of the current laws shows that most power lies in the hands of local governments through the Growth Management Act and the ...

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Remembering Jennifer Dunn

Posted Sun, Sep 9, 10:02 a.m.

Contract on America: Notice that the GOP did nothing to implement the Contract On (sorry, "with") America when they had control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. Hey, Chris, how about that balanced budget amendment?

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Yankee Stadium, home of the umpires

Posted Sun, Sep 9, 9:59 a.m.

Whining about officiating: Must be Seattle's favorite pastime. Is there a home town factor? Maybe. I saw one M's game this year when Ichiro was clearly thrown out trying to steal second. But was called safe. That was against the Pirates who must be at the bottom of any officiating ...

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