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Why isn't the City of Seattle cutting more staff?

Posted Tue, May 5, 11:34 p.m.

i love the grainy and totally unflattering shot of the mayor in this piece. genius. i think everybody thinks he's a hack and just isn't willing to say it. he's a hack

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A side of transparent pork, please

Posted Thu, Mar 12, 12:59 p.m.

the eritrean earmark is kind of weird, but the rest seem pretty straight forward and not egregious to me. earmarks are designed to inject $ in projects that, in many cases, are caught in the governments bureacratic funding process. there may be too many of them, but certainly funding for ...

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Seattle's 'niceness' problem

Posted Tue, Mar 3, 3:06 p.m.

Well done! I am constantly stunned by the social awkwardness of the city. Going to a bar and trying to strike up a conversation with a total stranger is a chore. I'm not out to get your number, man or woman, just a little chit chat while I swill my ...

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Time for a bus-fare reality check

Posted Wed, Aug 6, 5:12 p.m.

Agree on many points: I think you raise a ton of good points. I've come to find my 2.8 mile commute is just as long, if not longer, on Metro than my former 10 mile commute to Microsoft was in my car. How could that be? Well, the route map ...

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Howard Schultz and Norman Lear do the Pike Place Market

Posted Wed, Nov 14, 4:55 p.m.

Not just lattes and flounder!: As these things go, the show isn't overly staged. One thing they taped and apparently did not cut is the very real rehabilitation of King County's White Center Heights Park. This was done via $500k from Starbucks and close to 2,000 volunteers from both Starbucks ...

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