The Queen Anne Community Council Transportation Committeewill meet at 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 31 at the Queen Anne Community Center at 1901 First Ave. W. Hear a presentation on the status of the Mercer West Project, how funding is being developed for Mercer West, the on-going study of projected levels of service at Mercer Pl. at Elliott Ave., the contractor selection process for Mercer West design, how public input will be handled. Bring your transportation issues.For further details contact John Coney, co-chair at 206-283-2049, and at djohnconey@aol.com.
Faced with an ongoing budget crisis, cuts across the Seattle School District don't show signs of stopping anytime soon. For college and career specialists, it means being on the chopping block yet again.
Rest at ease anyone who may have heard rumors last week that Discovery Park may close under the strain of citywide budget cuts.
Aries (Mar. 20-Apr. 19) Wed; morning (14th) there's an extremely lucky New Moon in your sign! See Leo!
Imagine my surprise to learn that Little Miss Muffet, as in the nursery rhyme, saw spiders because she was inebriated from eating her curds and whey, or so says Frank Clark, Supervisor, Department of Historic Foodways, Colonial Williamsburg.
Myron ('Mike,' 'Red'), a longtime Seattle resident, died after a short illness at the age of 90. Mr. Brixner was born in Seattle to Myron and Julia Mackie Brixner and spent his boyhood at Maxwelton, Whidbey Island.
Stick fightTwo police officers were patrolling the area of Ninth Avenue North and Broad Street at 3:59 a.m. on March 14 when they observed two men fighting on the Southwest corner of the intersection. The suspect stood above the victim holding him to the ground. He threw punches into the victim's torso, swinging wildly.
What started out as a lament about the cancellation of this year's fireworks show over Lake Union on a Seattle-area news-talk station has ultimately proven that the grass-roots fund-raising efforts of the people of Greater Seattle could save an annual tradition from being blacked-out.
I have not joined the Coffee Party, but it's because of a schedule that did not allow me to attend the meetings. But I will be there shortly. But in the meantime, I still wonder about what we are trying to achieve and whether any of us have a really clear idea of what kind of America we are trying to create.
City Councilmember and Queen Anne resident Tim Burgess wants to modify the way Seattle deals with its street population - the mentally ill as well as the addicted.
The communication phenomenon called "texting" is often portrayed in the media as negative and harmful.
Calling McDermott a barnacle is inappropriateDear Editor,I find it unconscionable that you attach the word 'barnacle' to Representative Jim McDermott's name in your recent essay (3/31/2010, Inside View). This sort of name calling undermines any attempt at constructive dialogue. While you may find that he has outlived his tenure, I could counter that your view comes from an uninformed and immature young-pup. Does this name calling advance anything?
The upcoming Painting, Not Art, Opportunity in Counterbalance Park will remove the remaining graffiti left over from the 35-feet tag in February.
In 1995 Bill Watterson chose to unceremoniously end his hugely popular comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes, much to the devastation of CalvinHeads everywhere, myself included. The strip transcended boundaries of the comic strip genre, presenting red wagonloads of philosophical dilemmas, paired with ironic humor, slapstick, and intricate artwork. Calvin and Hobbes helped to establish the comic strip as a reputable art form, and its ignoble end was a true artistic tragedy.
A father and son get in a car accident on the way to a fishing trip and are rushed to the hospital. The boy is put in one room, the father another. A surgeon begins to work on the boy but stops saying, "I can't operate on this patient, he's my son." What is the surgeon's relationship to the boy?