Surprise, surprise — to no one who’s traveled the Seattle area on any of its various modes of transportation: Seattle’s traffic congestion is the fourth-worst in North America for the first quarter of 2012.
Believe it or not, there’s a primary election ahead. The biggest decisions come in November, but in the ballots mailed this week and due by Aug. 7, two large levy measures will be decided, and the top two candidates for the fall ballot will be chosen from crowded fields in several key state and Congressional races.
Listen. No, really. Close your eyes, turn off your brain for a few minutes and listen. I’ll wait. OK. Did you hear anything? A bird? A truck going by? A lawnmower buzzing down the street? Try again. At a certain point you will hear a voice. And you will hear it with your heart because the voice comes from deep within you.
The argument over the proposed stadium in the SODO neighborhood has replaced the argument over the Alaskan Way Viaduct as the one that never seems to end. Nowhere was that more evident than at the town meeting to discuss that stadium at North Seattle Community College on July 10.
Batman has sure come a long way. Originating as a comic book super hero created by DC comics in the late thirties, to being portrayed by the legendary Adam West in the campy seventies TV show. Then came the movies.
The Greenwood Concert Band will present a free concert on Sunday, July 29, 2 p.m. at the Swedish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter Av. N.
The Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) advises travelers of construction activities in the Mercer Corridor Project area: Continuing through late July:
The crowded field contending for the 36th District state representative seat, Position 2, which is being vacated by Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, presents an interesting array of possibilities.
It’s only once every four years -- during the Olympics -- that the average person on the street has any interest in caompetitive swimming. Then their TV screens are filled with the multiple medal winning talents of a Michael Phelps or a Marc Spitz.
A few weeks ago, when our weather was so bad, I was taking a walk and came upon two men trying to move a huge rock. One man, who turned out to be a landscape architect, told me that the rock had become dislodged from the garden because of the rain. So we started chatting about the awful weather we were having, how cold and unpleasant and depressing it was.
In the wake of tragic events — like those that took place in Seattle in late May and more recently in Aurora, Colo. — communities converge to support each other and wonder what could have been different. When mental illness appears to play a role, the questions feel even more urgent: Why didn’t the person seek help? Where did the system fail? What can we do to prevent this from happening again?
Residents and businesses in upper Queen Anne and in some parts of Magnolia and Interbay may temporarily experience discolored water, beginning Thursday evening, July 26. Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) crews have been performing maintenance on a major pipeline that supplies drinking water to those neighborhoods.
In the July 18 issue of the News we featured profiles of the seven candidates vying for the 36th District state representative seat.