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Tunnel replacement meeting

Magnolia, Queen Anne residents requested to attend

As the proposal to replace the viaduct with a bored tunnel wends its way through the legislature, community organizations in northwest Seattle wonder how the Bored Tunnel Hybrid alternative will affect neighborhoods north of Denny Way.

Park On: AIG disgust

In light of AIG executive receiving bonuses, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner said, “[A]s soon as I heard about the full scale of these things, we moved very actively to explore every possible avenue—legal avenue to address this problem, to make sure that, again, the assistance we were providing was not going to unduly benefit these people.” Geitner continued to say that they had no legal ability to block these payments but that now they’re going to go back and try to get back those payments that they weren’t able to block initially.

Nickerson bike lanes postponed

Some good news, for the time being. It would appear that the objections raised against SDOT's plan to constrict Nickerson Street have not fallen on deaf ears - they've called the whole thing off.

Corner Poets 3/25

Martin Luther King Way

deep linesin his faceas if his body was a shellready to crack and let the newform throughlong white beardwith grey and tangled staysto hold him together

Bulletin Board 3/25-3/31

Join "Friends of Queen Anne Murals" to plan and create this project for the Dexter Way North Underpass - below Aurora Avenue. Volunteers are urged to attend a meeting Wednesday; April 8th; 7:00 P.M.; Bayview Retirement Community located: 11W Aloha Street, Seattle, WA 98119. For More Information or to volunteer:QueenAnneMurals@yahoo.com

A positive outlook could add years to life

I'm a community physician who adores practicing old-fashioned medicine.

QA lacrosse tops North Seattle

On Saturday, March 21, the Queen Anne Boys Lacrosse team defeated North Seattle 8-7 in sudden death overtime.

Smelling something rotten in Seattle

Smelling something rotten in SeattleSeattle is all about process. It is a process of proposals, usually from the mayor's office, and the subsequent hearings and rituals that lead to its enactment by the City Council or one of the mayor's departments.

Smelling something rotten in Seattle

Seattle is all about process. It is a process of proposals, usually from the mayor's office, and the subsequent hearings and rituals that lead to its enactment by the City Council or one of the mayor's departments.

Death on Elliott and hypocrisy

By the end, I'd switched from reading the P-I every day to reading it once a week. The other six days I picked up the Seattle Times. The Times wasn't better, it is still locked into an unholy relationship with big business and big politics, but the P-I, once the workingman's paper, had become, in my mind, almost indistinguishable from the Times in its cheerleading coverage of Boeing, Microsoft and Greg Nickels' tawdry (see snow removal snafu) mayoral administration.

Park On: Budget legislation humor

With all the news of the economic crisis, the bailouts of the banks and sub-prime mortgage holders, I came across this video above of a funny exchange between Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a Democrat of North Dakota and Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican from iowa.

Text books still expensive

Books often largest expense among college students trying to survive in brutal economy

Being a college student is hard enough financially but in today's bleak economy students are struggling to make ends meet now more than ever. Seattle Pacific University is known for its great academics, sports teams and private university tuition. Students have had to learn to adapt in these tough times.

Bulletin 4/1/09

The Queen Anne Community Council Parks Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 14. The meeting will be at the Queen Anne Community Center located at 1901 First Ave. W. Don Harper 206-281-9018.

Magnolian gets music award

Talman Welle, a Magnolia resident and classical pianist, was recently honored by the Music Teacher's National Association (MTNA) with the Permanent Professional Certification in Piano. The certificate is reserved for teachers who have maintained MTNA professional certification for a minimum of 10 years.

Corner Poets 4/1/09

Between Songs By Ryan Barret

Afraid of this silence?Does it deafen you?Echoing off of everything, isit staggering here at the Center of everything?