Jeanp246

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Why shopping 'green' won't save the planet

Posted Sat, Aug 2, 12:03 p.m.

greening: this is possibly/probably true , but as any revolutionary change begins with imaginal education - why not give it a try???

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All the rage

Posted Thu, Jul 31, 10:21 a.m.

roll of cellphone law: I wonder ( altho I do agree with the policy) if in our designed life of moving too fast, always being a bit late, if cell phones might have provided one way of dealing with some of the chaos. the real issue is I believe, the ...

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Helpful Civic Suggestion #1,987

Posted Mon, Jun 30, 8:20 a.m.

bus ads: how about pro/con info on upcoming issues in the legislature, general statistics on the changes going on in Seattle, bilingual info on greetings in several languages - no end to educational/civic opportnities.

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The Great White hope

Posted Mon, May 5, 10:09 a.m.

Hmmm.: a totally non-scientific wondering - I remember when the song,"everybody's turning brown" came out with a following defensive response - maybe deep in some hearts is the notion that great - white- and hope somehow balances something????

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Angry Art Thiel spares J.P. Patches

Posted Mon, Apr 28, 2:21 p.m.

yes, to citizen Theil: I deeply appreciated the efforts of Prof Theil to maintain the integrity of the U District re: new developement. We need a lot more loud and knowledgable voices to speak up to those who simply want to make more and more and more, and forget those ...

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Sweet Home, Soviet Union

Posted Thu, Apr 10, 9:40 a.m.

what?????: I didn't think that rock groups were allowed to wear uniforms. the hair is more reminiscent of wasps - is this a giant put on (putin)?

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Booth Gardner's campaign is selfless, not self-centered

Posted Sat, Apr 5, 8:33 a.m.

yes: yes to Booth Gardner's initiative and to giving "his last full measure of devotion" to the state he served so well.

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Conspicuous Seattle

Posted Wed, Apr 2, 8:19 a.m.

then there is survival: I hope the motivation for developement, developement, developement goes deeper that cash. there is no way to avoid experiencing the housing inequitites that we have found ourselves in - surely our "planners" can do better that this - the elite have favored empire, but there has ...

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Big Brother is us

Posted Mon, Mar 24, 10:23 a.m.

in love with control/power: I remember a neighbor lady when I was growing up that always seemed to have the"dirt" on everyone in some form, creating a power base for her pet ideas, you could cross her, with a consequence, but folks ofter took the easy way out and bills ...

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Cities are shaped by choice

Posted Thu, Feb 28, 3:48 p.m.

no argument here: can't argue with what you said - I wonder sometimes about folks who think their decisions - about lots of things - somehow aren't connected to the rest of us. I remember a golf course in Kenya, where the water had been diverted from the use of ...

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Hitting close to home on affordability

Posted Thu, Feb 21, 9:24 a.m.

partial growth results in imbalance: Unconscious chaos seems to accompany radical changes, we've done a pretty unconscious job of reponding to the changes in population in our fair city. we respond much easier to the things we think add to our life (though not everyone cheers at the advent of ...

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Hitting close to home on affordability

Posted Thu, Feb 21, 9:24 a.m.

partial growth results in imbalance: Unconscious chaos seems to accompany radical changes, we've done a pretty unconscious job of reponding to the changes in population in our fair city. we respond much easier to the things we think add to our life (though not everyone cheers at the advent of ...

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The rock star of hope

Posted Sun, Feb 17, 3:32 p.m.

new folks at the table: one of the folks at my caucus said "how do we know thay Obama will bring change? the young NA woman at my side said, 'I'm here, I've never voted, I'm the change that he promisses" lots of agreement followed - sometimes we can't see ...

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