Posted Fri, Apr 27, 1:56 p.m.

Having kept close tabs on this and watching the videos, I too agree that you are way off base. Enoch and Banda seems like good fits with Enoch getting more points for experience. Husk - no way, no how. She reminded me of Goodloe-Johnson. We have been there done that ...

Posted Mon, Apr 2, 9:31 a.m.

Trader Joe's, that is what we long for in Lake City too.

Posted Thu, Mar 29, 7:58 a.m.

Making Northgate more pedestrian friendly is great but people still have to be able to get there if they don't live next to it. I live in Meadowbrook. I can either walk 2 miles over some serious hills to get there (which my 16 year old actually does) or I ...

Posted Wed, Mar 28, 1:01 p.m.

I don't know where mspat parks at Northgate but I have never had any problems parking at the mall at least on the east side. There is always a ton of parking there available. I love Thortan Place. We go to the movie theater there all the time and park ...

Posted Fri, Mar 16, 12:25 p.m.

It kind of cracks me up that a highly paid Superintendent can't handle a group interview. As an engineer at an aerospace firm, we regularly interviewed candidates in a large panel format. In addition, as engineers we were only one of two panels plus multiple one-on-one interviews with managers. It ...

Posted Wed, Mar 14, 8:13 a.m.

There is a lot of cross-county stupidity too. There are a lot of Boeing employees who live in north King County and south Snohomish County yet it is impossible to get a quick bus to the Boeing Everett plant. Even going from the park and ride on I5 just over ...

Posted Tue, Nov 22, 10:07 a.m.

The northeast Seattle has similar issues. Lake City would love to have some more businesses open other than Strip Clubs, Pot shops and car dealerships. I would love to have a Trader Joe's I could actually shop and park at. The U District one is crazy busy and the parking ...

Posted Fri, Nov 18, 10:48 a.m.

I hope we can finally get rid of that awful math program and go to something with better results. I know many people who are tired of having to pay for Kumon or Sylvan Learning math programs because their kids aren't learning in the public schools. I feel sorry for ...

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 12:04 p.m.

Gary P said: People don't ride bicycles because a) roads are perceived to be dangerous b) no parking facilitates in major office buildings c) no shower/lockers in same office buildings. I don't ride a bike a) too many hills b) can't carry groceries c) 2 kids to move to activities. ...

Posted Fri, Aug 12, 8:13 a.m.

seattlelifer you forget that they also promised us sidewalks when 85th to 145th were annexed. I might be willing to vote for this car tab increase if it was only for paving and transit. Skip the bikelane crap until we get our roads fixed or better yet, only do the ...

Posted Fri, Jun 10, 8:31 a.m.

Microsoft is looking for software engineers and can't find enough so they import them from India. Maybe we need a Software for American where we take the brightest college grads and train them for 5 weeks and then put them at Microsoft writing code, etc. Why bother importing from India?

Posted Fri, May 20, 7:25 a.m.

Is this the building that Sail Sandpoint is in? They are a wonderful organization that brings sailing to all kids regardless of finances. I hope they will still have their space.

Posted Mon, May 16, 10:09 a.m.

Parents overwhelming support this principal. Students from the gifted program were partly convinced to go to Ingraham instead of Garfield because of the work this principal has done. How many of these will now try to switch to Garfield or go to a private school because once again the superintendent ...

Posted Fri, May 13, 9:40 a.m.

How about the school superintendent and the school board listening to parents? How about looking at the schools that have long wait lists and asking why that is and then duplicating those programs at other schools? How about asking parents why they leave the district, choose private school or move ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 8:55 a.m.

But, what do I know? I'm just a rural north Seattleite living on my not-paved-but-chipsealed (hot tar sprinkled with gravel http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/chipseal.htm) street, just a short piece away from theh 2-foot deep stormwater erosion channels in front of the newer apartment complex where DPD didn't require the developer to install sidewalks ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 7:45 a.m.

I live north of 85th and have no sidewalks. You take your life in your hands walking on our street. I want the sidewalks we were promised when we were annexed by the city. If we could at least get sidewalks on one side, it would help immensely. With the ...

Posted Wed, Apr 20, 7:36 a.m.

Wow! Almost all of the icons you mentioned as hating are the ones I love! The only thing better than the Hammering Man is the Blue Moon Tavern's Drinking Man. The Troll, Lenin and the Hammering Man are always on our must see list when we have tourists in tow.

Posted Wed, Apr 13, 7:24 a.m.

This parent voted with her feet because the Seattle Public Schools system doesn't listen to the parents who are their customers along with their kids. My kids go to private schools because the district and school board don't listen to the parents when they bring forward concerns about bad math ...

Posted Wed, Mar 30, 8:26 a.m.

I don't think everyone who signed that ballot is against the tunnel. I was asked repeatedly to sign it and told that it wasn't a no vote on the tunnel only a chance to vote on the tunnel. I refused becausee I knew that it would be spun up as ...

Posted Wed, Mar 30, 7:34 a.m.

Didn't vote for him and I don't like him or his style. I am for the tunnel.

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 11:52 a.m.

Why not make the carpool lanes variable? As the number of cars goes up, increase the number of passengers required for the carpool lane.

Posted Tue, Mar 29, 11:43 a.m.

The Admiral in St. Louis, MO on the Mississippi River was inspired by the Kalakala and has suffered a similar fate. Unless someone steps forward with money who wants to save the Kalakala, I am afraid that is doomed as the Wawona.

Posted Fri, Mar 25, 8:08 a.m.

Hurray for Bellingham! I sure hope Seattle can follow suit. And Wilbur, I'm sorry you are so bitter about giving up your plastic shopping bags but a large portion of the plastic trash floating around in the ocean is plastic bags. They are very detrimental to wildlife which mistakes them ...

Posted Fri, Mar 4, 8:16 a.m.

Making all schools charter schools with no central school district at all. Going entirely to vouchers. Privatizing the schools. Turning them over to Bill & Melinda Gates. Please no. Why not look at the schools that are working that parents are already voting for with their children? Schools that oversubscribed, ...

Posted Wed, Mar 2, 10:01 a.m.

I agree with westello. Why doesn't the school system emulate the successful programs they already have such as Salmon Bay? Why is this type of school only available in the northeast for K-5 (Thorton Creek) and K-8 for the northwest? Why nothing for the south? Why no 6-8 in the ...

Posted Tue, Feb 15, 12:33 p.m.

I love the Seattle Center just the way it is! What we really need is more mass transit to there. My son goes to school near the Seattle Center and there is only one bus that goes from the Northgate Transit Center directly to the Seattle Center and it meanders ...

Posted Tue, Feb 15, 12:18 p.m.

It is cost and pretty much cost alone that keeps me out of the movie theaters. I really only go see those movies that have to be seen on a large screen. Otherwise, I get the DVD from the library where even the fine for a late return is less ...

Posted Fri, Feb 11, 7:34 a.m.

Thank goodness he is no Reagan!!!

Posted Tue, Feb 8, 12:14 p.m.

Check out Seattle Waldorf High School for a school that doesn't fall into this trap. I have been really impressed with the academics and learning methods there. It is funny they screened this at Roosevelt. I personally know 4 families that have pulled their kids from Roosevelt because Roosevelt could ...

Posted Tue, Jan 25, 7:39 a.m.

The Seattle Waldorf School had a screening of this about a month or so ago. Many Waldorf schools across the country are sponsering screenings. In Waldorf education, school is not a race but a journey.

Posted Thu, Dec 16, 11:58 a.m.

We still have Tent Cities roving around the city. They don't help the homeless become homed. They move every 3 months causing instability. They are sprung upon neighborhoods who have no say. Clearly, King County and Seattle are failing in addressing homelessness.

Posted Thu, Dec 9, 1:21 p.m.

St. Louis did this years ago and in the long run it was not good for the city of St. Louis. I don't think it would be good for Seattle either. St. Louis broke away from St. Louis County when all the money was in the city. Now it is ...

Posted Tue, Nov 23, 7:59 p.m.

I know the librarian at Nathan Hale. The book is not banned. It is still in the library and she would fight tooth and nail to keep it there. It has been placed on the list of books that the kids read in groups to discuss with each other rather ...

Posted Thu, Nov 4, 8:23 a.m.

Obama tried consensus. Obama tried compromise. All it did was get him burned. The Republicans would work out a deal in committee and then not vote for the bill when it went to the floor. Why do you think they will behave any differently this time around? Republicans seem to ...

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 1:14 p.m.

What happened to all the comments?

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 10:01 a.m.

I should add that this voter plans on voting against every single school board member who gave this superintendent a good review.

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 8:50 a.m.

Thank you teachers of Seattle for the no confindence vote in this awful superintendnt. I am a parent of 2 school age kids both of whom attend private schools because we couldn't get into the alternative school we wanted (Salmon Bay). We had the oppurtunity to send our incoming freshman ...

Posted Mon, Jun 14, 8:52 a.m.

Our children have been in private school for the last 8 years because we could not get the education we wanted for them from Seattle Public Schools. Our eldest is ready for high school and we had been hoping to try the local public high school which has a great ...

Posted Fri, May 28, 9:02 a.m.

All the illeagal aliens I have known have been Europeans. They easily got driver's licenses. No one ever suspected them.

Posted Fri, Sep 18, 7:29 a.m.

Motorcycle riders always wave to each other. They also wave at drivers who are hauling bikes. I recently experienced the wave on 98th street between 15th and Lake City Way where the street is one lane in places. People wave thank yous all the time there to people who patiently ...

Posted Mon, Aug 25, 10:18 a.m.

How can you say Seattle isn't funny?: What about Almost Live? That was homegrown funny talent. The show was very popular for many years and regularly poked fun at Seattle and the surrounding area. Who can forget the Ballard Driving Lessons? Cops in Kent? What about our Ivar's Dancing Clams? ...