Posted Fri, May 6, 5:21 p.m.

dbreneman, You really live on the Olympic peninsula and work in Snohomish County? What kind of madness is that? Why is it deemed selfish for people to protect their homes from freeway expansion, but a constitutional right for people to commute long distances over very expensive infrastructure that makes close-in ...

Posted Wed, Mar 2, 9:23 a.m.

@taupe, The "free market economy" absolutely does not reward workers according to their merit or how hard they work. You can't tell me, for example, that W worked hard at Yale. And where's the free-market logic in the Wall Street bonuses paid to those who tanked the market? Millions of ...

Posted Wed, Apr 7, 2 p.m.

dbreneman, If 520 is only a state highway, serving long-distance travel, unrelated to local streets, then we don't need the Montlake and Lake Washington Boulevard interchanges. I for one would be delighted if they were just shut down. Okay, that would indeed be selfish, because you're incorrect about the destinations ...

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 8:57 a.m.

Cleanscapes has been hiring the homeless to clean in Pioneer Square for years.

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 8:53 a.m.

Gee whiz Doc and Art, you're being awfully hard on poor Skip; don't shoot the messenger. A plan would be incomplete without considering all of these factors/bits of advice, including the eighth one that Doc adds.

Posted Tue, Jun 9, 2:15 p.m.

We'll be carting the tube off to the recycler as well. Knute is right on about TV news - sensational and uninformative. Radio and print (what's left of it) do a better job. What's more, neither KUOW nor the newspapers (living or dead) have ever sent an obnoxious helicopter to ...

Posted Tue, Jun 9, 9:21 a.m.

@Rob K - Excellent points. As you point out, and as Philip Dawdy does in the article, the proposed fence will benefit others beyond the suicidal; emergency responders and ordinary pedestrians will be safer. That's more bang for the 8 million bucks than the Hobbesian "let them jump" posters allege. ...

Posted Tue, Jun 2, noon

We shouldn't take out the sidewalks, because getting about by car should not be mandatory. We need to be less alienated from our surroundings, not more. Let's make it possible and safe to walk or bike, yes even along Aurora.

Posted Tue, Jun 2, 11:13 a.m.

This is sounding like other Seattle Process debates where otherwise-reasonable people stake out extreme positions in order to move the resolution in their direction (which all too often this results in a hash of a solution or none at all). How else to put a kind construction on the troubling ...