Washington will hold its caucus on Saturday, Feb. 9. We are one of the few states that uses the caucus system to select presidential nominees (think of Iowa).
Community members came out in strength to hide a treasure trove in Hillman City.
The first meeting of the Columbia City Runners group.
The following information was provided by the city's Department of Planning and Development.
While listening to a National Public Radio (NPR) segment on the role "aunties" have played in the lives of their nieces and nephews, I got to thinking about my position as an uncle.
It's hard to be so happy and so fearful at the same time. To be hopeful that America has changed enough to elect an African American President, but feel so much fear that one lunatic, in one moment of unbridled racism, could end the dream so quickly.I can hear and feel that concern in the voice of every African American I talk to about Barack Obama.
Seattle may not be all that different from other North American cities. We're all faced with a lack of affordable housing, predatory lending practices, and growing homelessness. Then there is increasing traffic congestion, loss of trees and open space, green house gas emissions, and more air and water pollution. While crime is down generally in Seattle, recent high profile killings on our streets remind us that it's still a problem. .But there are problems we don't have, at least not in a big way.
A 911 caller reported a small pickup truck was blocking the road in the 8400 block of Wabash Ave. S. At the scene, officers found the truck, obviously obstructing the road with its lights on but extremely dim, indicating it had been sitting with its headlights gleaming for some time.
Volunteers who used the Chapel on the Hill in Discovery Park as a recovery station for rabbits caught in Woodland Park after they were spayed and neutered promised to leave the building in better shape than they found it. They didn't, according to Heidi Carpine, a member of the Friends of the Chapel on the Hill. Seattle Parks and Recreation fixed the roof on the military chapel, but Carpine was worried about rain leaking into the building during the heavy rainstorms in December, she said.
Longtime Seattle City Council member Richard Conlin has never been a political firebrand; he's too even tempered and "Seattle nice." But as the new council president, the 25-year resident of Madrona has helped the council come up with a 2008 agenda and a set of priorities that deal with everything from gang violence to planting more trees in the city (see sidebar). Conlin is also faced with countering Mayor Greg Nickels' fondness for a top-down, centralized-power structure at City Hall. For example, the mayor at one point changed the ground rules and insisted that council members go through his office with questions for city departments rather than contacting department heads directly, as the council had been doing.
A Magnolia reader called the News last week to report that police did not respond when she called 911 about shots being fired around 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30 near her home in the 4400 block of 28th Place West. Kari Kostin said it sounded like the shots were coming from Commodore Way area and that 20 of them were fired by the time she was connected to a 911 operator after being put on hold. The operator asked if the sound might not be fireworks, she said.
In one form or another, the family-owned Queen Anne Office Supply store has been in the neighborhood for almost six decades. That's about to change.The business in the 500 block of First Ave. N. is closing its doors, selling the building it's been in since 1950, and merging with Complete Line, an office-supply business in Redmond, said Chris Bihary, who owns the Queen Anne business with his wife, Jane Bihary.
We have had coyotes in Discovery Park in the past, and they are in many areas in Seattle. This most recent coyote would never have made the news if the residents (renters) in the military housing on Officers Row had not complained to the Navy/Forest City Military Communities, and demanded it be killed by the USDA. This after residents left cat food outside, thereby attracting the coyote to the property.
Only in Seattle would public officials flip-flop overnight from planning to shoot a dangerous coyote to holding a meeting about "living with wildlife." What a crock of manure (or should I say "person-ure" in this politically- correct bubble we live in?). If this were a rabid dog roaming the city, would the mayor declare a curfew and force us all to stay indoors until it decided to die?
I'll restrict my comments to the Democratic side of the aisle because I'm unable to reconcile with the conservative approach to government, making it virtually impossible to evaluate the Republican candidates without scowling at their saber rattling, plutocratic, down-with-government message. I want a president who is a leader, a word definition that may be the most debated in our language, at least during political campaigns.