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ALL MEMBERS »Yesterday, I blogged about my friend and accountant who gave us a quick-shot, not-so-hot reaction to riding the streetcar for the first time. There, I called it a streetcar. I want to take it seriously, because I am their customer: the line connects near enough to my home and work to be an option and I intend to take it once the silly stuff dies down. (see silly stuff, below).
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe Oregonian is running a fascinating story about fallout from the feds' June raid of Portland's Fresh Del Monte Produce plant, which arrested 167 people in a sweep targeting illegal workers.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWOpening day for the new South Lake Union Streetcar is not a happy moment for Reinhard Krischer, keeper of the old Seattle monorail flame. He's still hoping for an extension of the 1962 Alweg line and still lamenting the failure of the Green Line in 2005. "All the safe, clever, and progressive advantages of elevated transit in the form of space-saving monorail technology were forgotten," Krischer writes in The Alweg Archives.
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If you can find your way out, there is much to be learned from a visit to Ikea.
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Voters were resisting a plan that was Seattle-centric and premised on the expectation that most people would become affluent professionals working in dense urban settings. This skeptic of rail transit also suggests how to recraft the proposal.
READ MORE | 12 COMMENTSBarack Obama was in town last night. He did two gigs for the hip at $100 and $250 a head, and one for the rich, in the Highlands, at $2,300 per. I attended the latter. I support Barak because he:
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