I had intended to write about the bailout, corporate CEO-CFO piracy, described as huge bonuses for losing money, and about the ridiculousness of corporate types defending said bonuses by saying they need to keep the "best" people, those best being the ones who raped and pillaged the system already. But fate intervened.
Construction projects at school districts across the state will continue this year because of a House bill signed by the governor yesterday that restores a depleted construction assistance fund.
No other state wants to have a budget like California. But it appears that Washington state comes pretty close. This week Washington forecast an $8 billion shortfall in its budget.
Our intention for all the communities where we invest ourselves is to build a market that best serves our farmers, enriches the neighborhood, and enables our little not-for-profit organization to provide living wages to the people who work on our projects.
"Wendy and Lucy," "WALL•E," "In Bruges," "Gran Torino," "The Visitor." Oh, excuse me, I thought I heard somebody ask whether there were five English-speaking movies in 2008 better than the five the Motion Picture Academy nominated for best picture. Shall we try for a second five? "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "Changeling," "Snow Angels," "Burn After Reading" and OK, we'll let "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the most nearly right one, in. "Button" was, in fact of point, a nominee, along with "Milk," "The Reader," "Frost/Nixon" and "Slumdog Millionaire."
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, six weeks before Easter. All sinful and indulgent food should have been used up on Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday, known in the United States as Fat Tuesday and also time for Mardi Gras, in England is Pancake Day.
If you've ever tried to get to Interstate 5 or even Aurora by way of Mercer Street in the afternoon, you'll know it's like a parking lot. Yet the Seattle City Council voted 6-3 Monday to approve a new funding plan to convert the four-lane, one-way street into a two-way street. Bad move.
Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat is proof that journalists grow.
Free is tough competition. The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer are up against free products, a competition that resulted in the Hearst Corp.'s announcement of the P-I's pending closure.
We're already well into the 2009 legislative session, and we are facing historic challenges in Olympia.
If on top of Queen Anne Hill you hear the deep and somber knell of a bell, it is not for you, but the 2009 Queen Anne Farmers Market.
This morning President Barack Obama announced that August 2010 would be the date to bring home a number of troops. Though Obama won't give out specifics, officials are saying that administration projects would place the withdrawal at about 92,000 to 107,000 troops. Currently 142,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq. However some troops will remain in Iraq to do training and protect civilians. Of course the withdrawal of all troops would be ideal, but President Obama seems to be keeping his campaign promise.
There's nothing like a few sunny spring days to make me grab my credit card and head out for the hardware store. I know that the real nice weather is still four months away and that only adds to my frenzy. I also know that I'm not the only one.
If you get a knock on the door soon, it might be a Boy Scout trying to do some good.