Am I going to become one of those bitter people? This is the second Christmas without my Mom. My Dad is gone, and my Sister Angie is gone. I heard a song (Silver Bells) from my childhood the other day that brought me down - I burst into tears with [...]
Posted by news intern Sarah Lloyd
On December 15, surveillance cameras in a downtown office building recorded a man "stealing a black bag from an unoccupied office," according to a Seattle police report. It was the same man caught on surveillance footage at Washington Mutual Towers in an earlier burglary.
The next [...]
Michael Hanes believes he has finally found the formula for success for a downtown restaurant that has not lived up to its full potential. He spent seven months in planning and remodeling and countless hours of hard work with one goal in mind. "The basis of this restaurant is consistent" [...]
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 25% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-six percent (46%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -21 That’s the lowest Approval Index rating [...]
Liz: Don't you dare laugh. But I'm that 1:50pm gal who fell down the steps. See if I EVER bake stuff to pass around the neighborhood again!!!! Have I EVER had a rough couple of months. The irony is I'm far more injured than I was in' [...]
Yesterday and this morning, The Patriot Post put two rather interesting quotes in my inbox.
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you [...]
When you are given a gift, do you write a thank you note? Do you call instead? Or do you sit down and write out a thank you note and mail it? Or being we are more into internet, do you sent an email? Or is just saying [...]
Factchecker: The last few weeks the spam to my e-mail has been outrageous. About 40-50 per day. A lot of them are these types of scams. Why does anyone open these? Haven't we all been warned about these over and over?
Question: What steps should Factchecker take to cut down' [...]
Will SuttonBeresCuller become the next Christoph Büchel?
The artist trio is spending the first six weeks of 2010 in residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and then heading over to Massachusetts for four days at the invitation of MASS MoCA.
Ben Beres [...]
Remember back in October, when I first told you about Erick Williamson, the Virginia man who was arrested when a neighbor looked in his window at 6:30 am and saw him naked?
He's been pronounced guilty. His 180-day jail sentence was suspended, meaning that there is essentially no punishment, but [...]
Earlier today, Dan linked to an article in the Seattle Times that exposes the governor's office surreptitiously trying to defeat Mike McGinn and elect Joe Mallahan mayor to save the proposed downtown tunnel. The electioneering—which the governor's office denies—isn't shocking, given that Gov. Gregoire endorsed Mallahan, and we've reported [...]
Coeur d’Alene pharmacist Jerry Gunderson was fired after he chased down a robber, the the Chicago Tribune reports. Gunderson apparently broke Shopko company policy of resisting a robbery and the Wisconsin company ignored the pleadings of his immediate boss and the fact the community gave him an award. Hey [...]
There’s a lot of blame being spread around for the watered-down, pro-industry/anti-consumer/anti-woman health care bill coming out of the Senate.
Some people blame President Obama for not providing more leadership. Some blame Senators Nelson and Lieberman for intentionally gumming up the works, and some even blame the Republicans for their obstructionist [...]
Politifact has the “Lie of the Year”:
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of [...]
And "oddly jumbled address," says SusanG at Kos, but the president slammed Republican obstructionists who are attempting to block a vote on the bill and called for an "up or down vote" on health care reform. The Republicans loved calling for "up or down votes" back when the GOP [...]
GOP Clogging the Intertubes:
Young Turks: The GOP.am disaster. Maddow: GOP Internet FAIL (via Mediaite):Pap: Erik Prince, our new Peter Pan.
Pana Perino befuddles her way to Worst Person in the World (via Mediaite).
Maddow: Sen. Inhofe (R-NutBag) likes Dr. Maddow.
Psychotalk: Glenn Beck.
Washington State legislator [...]
I didn't notice this article yesterday, but this is a bummer. Not that I've ridden those rides in years, but this still makes me a little sad and nostalgic. No more Log Ride!
The Fun Forest's big rides are being sold, dismantled and shipped off. The south part of Fun Forest, [...]
The Secretary of State's office released a breakdown of votes for statewide ballots on the November ballot. Overall, Referendum 71 passed, thereby upholding the domestic-partnership expansion bill, and Initiative 1033 failed, thereby preventing Tim Eyman from decimating the state budget forever. The office's spokesman David Ammons sheds some light on [...]
The Guardian reports:
Swedish carmaker Saab is to be shut down by General Motors after the collapse of a last-ditch attempt to sell it to Dutch sports car manufacturer Spyker.
GM announced today that with "regret" it was starting an orderly wind-down of 62-year-old Saab's operations. The marque, which grew [...]
This undated image provided by the Monterey Bay Aquarium, shows the endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon. As efforts falter to save this largest freshwater fish _ a toothless beast left over from the days of dinosaurs _ officials hope to stave off extinction by sending more water hurtling down a [...]
Another great film event tonight: The Frye is hosting Critics Wrap 2009, in which four local critics—including our own Andrew Wright—will give you the rundown on this year in film.
Critics Wrap 2009
Thursday, December 17
7 pm
Admission is free
Join us for the fifth [...]
