edmcg

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Proposition 1: the arguments against, deconstructed

Posted Wed, Oct 31, 1:13 p.m.

RE: Prop 1 - a transportation fiasco: Don't worry about the money for this proposition. If you vote it down, you will have no option other than to take a car (since the buses will also be stuck in the traffic nightmare) and some guy in the Middle East (and ...

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Proposition 1: the arguments against, deconstructed

Posted Tue, Oct 30, 3:30 p.m.

Kemper says No!: Yes - I agree with the Sierra Club, don't vote for Prop 1. Afterall, I need you to keep fueling up your cars, sitting in traffic and coming to my mall with its easy and convenient parking. And god forbid they fund this with a sales tax ...

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Seattle police oversight: Don't get your hopes up

Posted Thu, Aug 23, 4:20 p.m.

Less Oversight - More Policing: We need more cops on the street - not wasting time in hearings. Less focus on police behavior - more beat downs on thugs in the Pike Pine Corridor

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Beware of the feds bearing gifts

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 3:42 p.m.

Privacy Does not Exist: Unless you move out to the willderness. The only people I have ever seen affected by tracking of movements are criminals - why is this bad. The government only uses this tracking if they have a reason too - I doubt anyone is being paid to ...

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Beware of the feds bearing gifts

Posted Thu, Aug 16, 12:34 p.m.

Feds no longer handing out the $$$: I am not surprised that people out here are whining about tolls - since the "rugged individualists" out here in the West have been the recipients of so much Federal Money over the years. Well it is time to pay your own way, ...

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Fighting "thuggery" in downtown Seattle

Posted Tue, Aug 14, 3:57 p.m.

Don't knock New Yorkers: They know a hell of a lot more about how a city should be designed than the ding dongs that designed the street grid and transit system in this town - and please stop pinting to Rockefeller Center as a model. That place is outdated

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Here are the real statistics, and they support light rail

Posted Mon, Aug 6, 8:54 a.m.

Take a look at North Virginia: Having moved here 7 years ago from Northern Virginia, the metro orange line between Rosslyn and Ballston served a low density area with acres of parking. As a result of the the rail, zoning was changed, land prices near the stations skyrocketed and high ...

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Another roadside attraction is about to be demolished

Posted Thu, Jun 28, 3:04 p.m.

RE: Added historical note: if that thing is part of your "heritage" I feel pretty sorry for you - and if that is your idea of "major dining" that is doubly tragic

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Another roadside attraction is about to be demolished

Posted Tue, Jun 26, 3:33 p.m.

You are kidding: I realize this city is relatively young, but this building is shite. I am sure we can find a mcdonald's that should be preserved as well. There is NOTHING worth saving - blow it up

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A big-time architect tackles Seattle's lack of a decent gathering place

Posted Thu, Apr 26, 3:18 p.m.

Don't try too hard to be cool: "biggest piece of the as-yet-disappointing Civic Center Master Plan, adopted in 1998, which gave us the new the Justice Center ($92 million) and the new City Hall ($72 million)." As someone who gre up in and moved out here from NYC, I think ...

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The fight of the condo

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 2:38 p.m.

Sure, let's keep everything a single family home: So long as you own, no need to do anything to make your housing more affordable. Let's be more like San Fran, a city of houses that gets chopped up into smaller and smaller apartments, and the price of housing goes into ...

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How dense can they be? Pretty dense, apparently

Posted Wed, Apr 18, 1:26 p.m.

North Dakota Awaits Mossback: I think the concept of constraining supply by encouraging people to move to North Dakota is crazy. People are bidding up Seattle real estate because their preference is to live here. If Mossback wants to move there, and do something to make housing more affordable here, ...

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