Posted Mon, Jan 30, 8:17 p.m.

Newt reminds me of previous Seattle mayor who tended to think out loud. Both are ex professors, albeit from different ends of the political spectrum. Behavior which may be useful in Academe may be damaging to a political career. But I would expect better of Seattle & Crosscut regarding science, ...

Posted Thu, Nov 3, 8:16 a.m.

coolpapa, You nailed it. I lived on Beacon and didn't know half of this. There's an article in there somewhere...pitch it to your friends at crosscut? I was never able to figure out how to crack that sushi factory in Georgetown. I assume it's still there. Why don't they have ...

Posted Tue, Nov 1, 3:51 p.m.

dbreneman, There may be few compelling reasons to go out of the way to go to Trader Joe's if you're looking for weekly shopping, I think because Joe's poor cousin, Aldi's, was designed to do that. Same parent company, but no outlets yet in the Northwest. It has one brand ...

Posted Sat, Jul 2, 7:25 p.m.

The thing is not that it rains 365 days a year. Many other places have more rainfall. It just looks like it is about to rain 360 days a year. What the Northwest does have is the most overcast days per year of any major metropolitan area in the contiguous ...

Posted Thu, Jun 9, 11:09 p.m.

With an alias like mine, I thought I'd comment. I was born and raised in Seattle. Jobs kept getting more focused and linear; i.e., non-tech professional jobs were driven by billionaires funding pet projects. Housing became prohibitively expensive. And it became difficult to find other kids for my own to ...

Posted Sat, Dec 26, 12:29 p.m.

I love my plastic tree. It had a three year payback. It takes 15 minutes to set up and take down. People who sell recently-live-now-dead trees live in trailers, like Carny workers. You do not know where they came from, who they are, or where they go back to. Afterwards, ...

Posted Tue, Oct 6, 11:28 a.m.

Someday, somehow, with all these revenue shortfalls everywhere, you just might begin to ponder how to get the Port of Seattle to start paying you instead of you paying it. But I'm sure it's not that simple.

Posted Wed, Sep 23, 8:30 p.m.

Who can forget the best all night DJ, Auto Pilot? He didn't say much but played a lot of good music, perfect for test preparation. This was just one more way that KJET was ahead of its time, as validated decades later by new Arbitron metrics.

Posted Thu, Aug 13, 9:30 p.m.

"Jobs on the periphery? How disconnected from reality." mhays, I think of 'peripheral' as anyplace where it would take an hour to an hour and a half to visit someone in Seattle. During most waking hours, that would mean any place on the eastside. By your broad definition then all ...

Posted Tue, Aug 11, 6:47 p.m.

Families can't afford to live there. NOAA can't afford to work there. Boeing wonders whether it can afford to build there. Much of the money transforming the City came not from within its limits but from sprawling four-story office parks across the lake, clogging your arteries with reverse commutes. Yet ...

Posted Sun, Jun 28, 6:31 a.m.

Am I wrong -- yes please feel free to correct me -- but where I am reading everywhere, nation/world-wide, about the arts contracting into oblivion(orchestra, opera, ballet, theatre) someone in Seattle had the guts to launch a new company, and pay scale? Innovative cost structure to be sure, but still, ...

Posted Thu, Jun 4, 5:57 a.m.

Having worked in and around finance/investments for years, I have concluded that one of Russell's chief strengths was its location. A higher percentage of Manhattanites know what Russell is, and does, than do Tacomans. That is an advantage. Russell is as far from Wall Street's frantic (visualize Jim Cramer) trading ...

Posted Mon, Jun 1, 7:06 p.m.

"Watched innocent walkers, cyclists, motorists just missed being killed by jumpers themselves." I was not aware of this. The money is earmarked, correct? What would the City pay to settle a lawsuit if an innocent were injured or killed -- given the history you cite here? Eight million dollars perhaps? ...

Posted Mon, Jun 1, 5:03 p.m.

"I see it daily as a beautiful, inspiring urban element that enhances my life, and those of others who look at it as well as those who view the city from it." But what about the Adobe or Google engineer who experiences a dry landing, not to mention the pain ...

Posted Sat, May 23, 8:31 a.m.

"On less congested and incomplete highways that nonetheless require tolling revenues to be built out (think Washington's State Route 509, for instance), tolling all lanes using value pricing may make more sense..." Don't you see, on the date that project is completed traffic will mushroom, as Southend commuters seek easier ...

Posted Mon, Apr 20, 4:39 p.m.

Call me a contrarian, but I would strongly encourage you to consider imposing both an income tax and raising the sales tax. Higher taxes, applied judiciously, can be seen as an investment in the future, like what is being practiced in California and the Northeast. I know that the citizens ...

Posted Sat, Apr 4, 10:27 p.m.

I argue that the British did lay claim to the land north of the Columbia. Seattle has as much affinity with Canada as it does to the rest of the U.S. The closest major population center to Seattle is Vancouver, about 3 hours away, while you have to drive (hard) ...

Posted Thu, Feb 12, 8:11 p.m.

"There could be no better investment in America than to invest in America becoming energy independent! We need to utilize everything in out power to reduce our dependence on foreign oil including using our own natural resources." Obama calls Alaska gas pipeline promising ENERGY RESOURCE: President plans to discuss it ...

Posted Tue, Feb 3, 6:59 p.m.

"But with most of the old debates now over, one big question remains: Will we complete the freeway grid in the urban core, and if so, how will we pay for it?" With tolls and tactics: One piece at a time. The anti-road voters are probably being self indulgent but ...

Posted Wed, Jan 28, 1:58 p.m.

How about mosquito fleet ferries back on Lake Washington? Cheaper and faster than building a bridge. A great way to spend a Saturday afternoon with your kids. Who will be grown, and living in North Carolina, before 520 is built. The Soundgarden Express to Kirkland. I like it. You know, ...

Posted Wed, Jan 28, 5:51 a.m.

Blame Craigslist. Then be like Drudge: Love your advertisers. They make it all possible to put this up for free.

Posted Sat, Jan 17, 9:54 a.m.

Not that it matters now Jerry, this being a long since forgotten column, but West Seattle does not deserve a multi BILLION dollar tunnel. If you don't share it with the wider region it's has an even lower return on investment. It appears that the Tunnel will be going forward ...

Posted Sat, Dec 13, 2:27 p.m.

Let me spare you from any further Gasbag prognostications. Here is your solution: Tunnel, viaduct, who cares. The Viaduct goes to nowhere. Let me explain. It's part of a private freeway to Burien...the best kept secret in Seattle. It serves no other higher purpose. So here's the solution: FINISH the ...