Those of us who were present with two eyes ranged from the hoi polloi to the highest echelons of state public life: at least one former guv (Booth Gardner) and the University of Washington's omnipresent Mark Emmert, "one of the best [college] presidents in the whole damn country," according to UW regent Bill Gates Sr., borrowing from sports-programming parlance.
It didn't matter, however, that the best and worst of us who were two-eyed witnesses Saturday at Hec Edmundson Pavilion thought Justin Dentmon's buzzer lay-up beat the clock. All that mattered was the judgment of a dispassionate cyclops: the television camera recording the event for Fox Sports Northwest. Even after the game refs allowed the scoreboard at the UW basketball court to read UW 76, Pittsburgh 75, the officiating crew members had another gander at the recorded last play. Then they had a few more.
He's re-electing himself right now, without votes, by raising money to lock out any serious challenger. It's the sad state of the modern election cycle, and the only solution is for potential donors to just say no to candidates until late in a campaign.
The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 6, that there is no right to a state-funded attorney during divorce. Brenda King couldn't afford a lawyer, but her husband, Michael King, could. No surprise: He got custody of the couple's children, even though she had provided the majority of care up to that point.
King's case is typical. "The person who can afford an attorney, and a good attorney, in a custody case is much more likely to win," says Ken Saukas, founder of Divorce Attorneys for Women. And having more money itself makes a parent more attractive to a judge.
So Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr now says he didn't know his office was issuing subpoenas to three Seattle Times reporters until after the fact.
Carr said he did not reveal that detail earlier because he generally tries to take the heat for decisions his office makes.
"Generally" apparently means until he looks dumb as a result of such a decision. Because until he outed the lawyer responsible for the misguided attempt to circumvent a state law shielding reporter sources, Carr had been defending the subpoenas.
The UW is keeping football coach Ty Willingham, who has a 11-25 record in three seasons as head coach and who is paid $1.4 million a year.
According to the P-I, the Huskies under Willingham has had two of the worse defenses in team history. This year, the defense gave up 446 yards per game.
Our built environment has forced the ecosystem to accommodate precipitation in high and fast volumes. The rush of water from pavement and compacted landscape destroys the natural order. It's also a huge source of Puget Sound pollution.
After the deluge, at 23.09 inches, we are still well below normal in rainfall for the calendar year, according to measurement at the National Weather Service forecast office at Sand Point in Seattle.
But at Sea-Tac Airport, the total for the year (35.44 inches) is above normal after yesterday's rain.
We'll update this as we find more and better stuff. The best explanation of where this weather came from is in The Oregonian. The Oregon Coast was probably hit hardest, and the paper also has an interactive Google map of stories and photos – best mash-up I've seen in a breaking-news situation.
The Seattle Times also has a mash-up, locating photos and reports submitted by readers.
Storm roundups by location and/or publication:
Two concerts, one by a string quartet and the other by a vocal trio, show how this music can be dramatic and accessible again. Maybe Seattle, too, is joining the parade to music that is contemporary, well staged, and far from routine.
Pretty much all hell is breaking loose and sliding downhill throughout the region today. The best place to get an overview of what's going wrong in metro Seattle is at the Regional Public Information Network site, a clearinghouse for official news – an Emergency Broadcast System of the Web.
The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer both have stories posted that are being updated, and the Times has a Google Maps mash-up of flood reports from readers.
The numbers on this image from the National Weather Service, which forecasts wind gusts for 10 a.m. Pacific time, are in knots. Quick conversion:
Oregon and Washington coast: 71, 78, and 82 mphBellingham: 54 mphSeattle: 50 mphPortland: 44 mph
Current weather warnings for: Western Washington, Oregon. Metro Puget Sound Regional Public Information Network with government-issued warnings and other news.
Dr. Joy Yu died Saturday after being hit by an avalanche near Snoqualmie Pass. Mitch Hungate, 61, is still missing after a separate avalanche on Granite Mountain. Rescue efforts have been suspended due to dangerous conditions.
Twenty-seven year old Alec Zimmerman, a seasoned traveler from Whidbey Island who was crisscrossing South America, has gone missing in Argentina after accepting a ride from a "grandfatherly" Chilean truck driver.
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