Posted Mon, Jul 25, 10:10 p.m.

The city of Seattle caved in to big oil, big auto (bus) maker and big rubber (the tires) back in late 30s and early 40's. Almost all of the now bus routes in Seattle were once street car lines. The street car company had its power plants and sold the ...

Posted Sun, May 8, 1:41 a.m.

He is the mayor of Montlake and the Cascade Bicycle Club. When does become the mayor of the rest of Seattle?

Posted Sat, Apr 30, 11:38 a.m.

Seattle is simply too expensive to live in unless you are very affluent or very poor at which case you would have a lot of your living expenses subsidized. My partner and I own a small home and combined we make 65K per year. We are examining whether its still ...

Posted Tue, Nov 23, 8:07 a.m.

That is a good "green way" to control the vermin population. However the pet population is going to need protected from them.

Posted Tue, Aug 3, 9:35 p.m.

"No one could argue Derdowski wasn't experienced; he was also effective (and was one of the council's least partisan Republicans)..." Like the Muni League, your bias is showing too.

Posted Mon, Jul 19, 9:24 p.m.

As someone who lived on the east coast in suburban Philadelphia, I can tell you that many of those cities have chased out their middle and working class populations with their city income taxes. Those have very very wealthy people and very very poor people.

Posted Wed, Apr 28, 4:07 p.m.

"The state property-tax reduction would indeed be 20 percent but, since the state share of the property tax is only 20 percent of a property owner's bill, the real property tax cut would amount to only 4 percent." I am not sure that makes any sense, not to me anyway. ...

Posted Sun, Feb 7, 12:31 a.m.

Oregon is a economic backwater. A good place to live if you work for a non-profit or off the government teet. If you want to work in the private sector, go across the Columbia or head to the mountain states.

Posted Fri, Jan 22, 3:18 p.m.

When Democrats have a bad day, I have a good day.

Posted Sun, Jan 17, 7:12 p.m.

Courtesy laugh-ha

Posted Fri, Jan 8, 1:50 p.m.

Pointing out Mr. Hahn's age is irrelevant, no more so than pointing out the McGinn is fat. Both of them could kick off at any time. Ms. Crunican may have a showhorse resume but it sound like Mr. Hahn is more of a workhorse. As city resident's we all want ...

Posted Wed, Jan 6, 9:58 a.m.

I will stick with printed books. For portability, I don't have to recharge a machine, I can read them during the landing and takeoffs of flights, I can share them with friends, they are made from recycled paper, books are more intimate. Johann Gutenberg vs. Amazon-I will take Gutenberg

Posted Mon, Jun 8, 10:28 p.m.

I am sorry, I thought the humor section had funny stories in it