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ALL MEMBERS »Maybe you haven't noticed, but most urban coffee shops have doors that are relatively easy to open when exiting with full hands. Most of the time they have some kind of push-bar thing you activate with a shove of your hip.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWSaturday, Jan. 19, found me housebound in Raleigh, N.C.. While a rare snow-sleet-storm took place outside, I periodically checked in on political developments nationally and in the Nevada presidential caucuses and Republican South Carolina primary. I talked on Friday with North Carolinians long active in the Democratic Party. They all were indifferent to former Sen. John Edwards' presidential candidacy and wondered why he kept it going.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWBack in the 1960s, Ralph Nader got rid of all the pointy instruments inside cars and nagged automakers into adding seatbelts. (Mom sold the Corvair.). Next, cops got huffy if you had one little beer open anywhere in the car. (Dad's Saturday errands took much longer.) So when I read that Washington State has two bills pushing a ban on smoking in vehicles when a child is aboard, I have two simultaneous reactions: (1) It's about time. (2) My parents would have quit driving completely.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe University of Washington men's team is showing promising signs of turning around the season. The Sonics seem to have promised to perform as poorly as possible to hasten an exit to Oklahoma.
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There was plenty of planning and PR. Just the same, residents of Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood this weekend felt like demolition of the historic Rainier Cold Storage building was rushed.
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