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ALL MEMBERS »As I passed the walled city of Broadmoor tonight I spotted two kids in Halloween costumes riding real ponies down the street. One lad was trotting rapidly across the lawn at Broadmoor looking like a miniature Pancho Villa headed to loot Madison Park of its candy. It looked like a real-life scene out of the greatest (okay, the only) all-midget Western ever made – The Terror of Tiny Town.
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Neil Peterson, the man who built the downtown Metro bus tunnel, recounts how he got the disruptive idea for urban car-sharing and built a little company, which is now part of a nationwide firm.
READ MORE | 5 COMMENTSIn revolutionary Laurelhurst, a kid came to my door dressed in some sort of farmer outfit. What are you?
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Seattle Post-Intelligencer Web site bannered an exclusive interview with Bill Clinton and book critic John Marshall this afternoon.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBeware of anything that adds more corporate zip and removes some of the people's flex. Despite the companies' predictable spin – more cars for everyone! – it is hard for dedicated car-sharers to believe that Seattle-based Flexcar getting sucked into Boston-bred Zipcar bodes well.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOne of the most stunning impacts of gentrification on street life in Seattle has been the transformation of East Madison Street, formerly a neighborhood dominated by the infamous Deano's Cafe and Lounge, more recently named Chocolate City, and Deano's 24-hour grocery.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWMore sales pitches have arrived in the mailbox regarding the Proposition 1 roads-and-transit measure. This time they are pro-Prop 1. Both were paid for by Keep Washington Rolling. I rate these pieces as very effective: They appeal to environmentally sensitive narcissists, one of Puget Sound's least-endangered species.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSo what do you call Concerned Women for America? That group is in the news because it's a former client to the Domain Group, a marketing company founded by Tim Burgess, who is a candidate for Seattle City Council.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWJoel Connelly has a good column in today's Post-Intelligencer, inveighing against Tim Eyman's Initiative 960, the latest legislative straightjacket from the populist tax-cutter. Connelly takes aim at the way I-960 would give one third of the Legislature an effective veto over any increase in taxes and a simple majority of the Legislature a say when any agency wants to raise fees. His point: Eastern Washington grumblers would get to veto increases in ferry fares on the Wet Side, and legislative sessions would degenerate into chaos and protracted stalemates, as in California. All too true. And it gets worse.
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So much nuclear waste to dispose of and so many barriers – technical, political, and legal. Here's an update on where things stand at the federal reservation in Washington. The solutions – glassification of radioactive waste, fast-reactor processing of spent nuclear fuel, and shipment to permanent burial in Nevada – are all encountering hurdles to progress.
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Mayor Greg Nickels, who's become nationally known for leading a movement of municipalities to where the federal government won't go, will be in the spotlight this week as some 100 mayors discuss global warming. His own act so far will be tough to follow. It's not going to be easy being greener.
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