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The need for cruise control

Crosscut Focus: People vs. Puget Sound. An environmentalist explains why better federal regulations are needed to police polluters among the world's fleet of cruise ships: State and local authorities can only do so much. Over six months this year, Puget Sound will see 211 big ships bearing 835,000 passengers call on Seattle.

The Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden In Vancouver, B.C.

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Your chance to join the Mod Squad

A number of events are coming up for people interested in preserving Northwest modernism, from Googie to Brutalism to starship chic. Here's a quick rundown and reminder of doings connected to stories I've been covering on Crosscut.

Puget Sound on Prozac

57 states — and the Soviet of Washington?

Arts Beat »

Tacoma wants a LIFT — Local Infrastructure Financing Tool — from the state

The idea is to further develop downtown and the Dome District with the estimated $1 million per year for 25 years available through LIFT, a community development program approved by voters in 2006.

The New York Times cuts five from the arts staff

Without $75,000, The Everett Theatre faces closure

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Business / Technology »

2.5 billion paper cups: Starbucks takes a hard look at recycling and composting

The company is also looking at ways to cut energy use, through building practices and other means. As for paper waste, there's only so much the company can do if local municipalities aren't accommodating recycling and composting.

Some companies are taking a pass on Microsoft Vista

As a reformist port commission gets sea legs, there is push-back from the staff

Politics / Government »

Seattle releases a map of the 575 most hazardous buildings in an earthquake

Well, sort of. It's actually a superficial "sidewalk" assessment done by a consultant. Says the last paragraph of this story: "The surveyors did not go into the buildings and did not always determine if the buildings had been upgraded or retrofitted. They concentrated their work in areas with higher numbers of such buildings and did not identify all of them in the city." City Hall is studying possible new rules on retrofitting masonry buildings.

As a reformist port commission gets sea legs, there is push-back from the staff

A review of public disclosure exemptions rouses the constituencies behind them

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Lifestyle / Leisure »

Tacoma wants a LIFT — Local Infrastructure Financing Tool — from the state

The idea is to further develop downtown and the Dome District with the estimated $1 million per year for 25 years available through LIFT, a community development program approved by voters in 2006.

An Ore. woman is the first female to win the brewmaster award

Available in Seattle this Friday: Copper River salmon

Food »

Included in the Farm Bill: $170 million in aid for salmon fisheries

The aid will help those in Ore., Calif., and Wash. affected by the emergency closure of the Pacific salmon season, the most devastating closure in U.S. history.

An Ore. woman is the first female to win the brewmaster award

Available in Seattle this Friday: Copper River salmon

Flip Side » Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton, will you please go now!

Flip Side: With apologies to Dr. Seuss and Maureen Dowd.

An alternative reality show

John Moe: Sorry, Seattle, I'm moving away

Sports »

Oklahoma City stakes a claim for the Sonics, no matter who owns the team

"An assistant municipal counselor sent a letter on behalf of Mayor Mick Cornett and other city officials informing Schultz, the team's former owner, that Oklahoma City's lease with the SuperSonics will be enforced no matter how pending lawsuits in Seattle are resolved."

Larry Stone on bringing back Junior: Nice idea, but potentially a letdown

Comcast's high-definition baseball asterisk

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