The Stranger Blog
- This Is Probably a Hoax, But...[Jun 18, 11:39 PT] ... I'd rock a pair of Dad legs in public: An image going viral on Sina Weibo—the Chinese equivalent of Twit ter—purports to promote 'hairy stockings'. The picture shows a pair of legs hairy from thigh to ankle but non-hairy feet—leaving the gender of the subject open to debate. ''Super sexy, summertime... read more The Stranger Blog
- Sao Paulo and the Right to the City[Jun 18, 07:35 PT] At the end of May, protests in Istanbul erupted because capital wanted to transform a public space, a park into another shopping center. And now this... Absolutely jaw-dropping photo of the massive protests in Rio pic.twit ter.com/NWcgsDsbRq #Brazil — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 18, 2013 ...because of this: The... read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Metro Chooses New Flyer for New Trolleybuses[Jun 18, 07:30 PT] [Image] ETB Route 70 Great news from Metro yesterday:the agency has selected a builder for its next big batch of trolleybuses, and the 60′ coaches will have three doors. From the news release: King County Metro Transit announced today it will replace its aging trolley fleet with new all-electric New Flyer coaches... read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Copper Theft Suspects Identified[Jun 17, 16:00 PT] [Image] Photo by the Author Last May STB reported on an extensive successful theft of copper wire from the Link guideway between Rainier Beach and Tukwila. King 5 is now reporting that two suspects are in custody have been identified: Prosecutors say DNA left on Gatorade bottles lead them to two men suspected in the... read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Get Ready for Better Access to Sound Transit Stations[Jun 17, 06:00 PT] [Image] Tuk wila/International Blvd Station Parking lot by Atomic Taco Sound Transitdid something really coolat their last board meeting. They updated their System Access Policy. Woo-hoo! Seriously, though, this is kind of a big deal. For the first decade or so of its existence, Sound Transit has muddled through without... read more Seattle Transit Blog
 ST Updates Link Station Data Report[Jun 14, 07:15 PT] [Image] Sound Transit spokesperson Bruce Gray has informed us that acompilation error caused some of the station leveldata we released earlierto be incorrect. In Service Change 19 (June 9, 2012 to September 28, 2012)the information from page onedid not match that from page four. I’ve uploaded the corrected data... read more Seattle Transit Blog
Transit in the Construction Zone[Jun 13, 07:02 PT] by AL DIMOND [Image] Mercer Mess traffic by Oran Viriyincy A few weekends ago, I forgot to check the construction and traffic alerts before getting in my car and got stuck in one hell of a traffic jam on Aurora Ave N, headed south toward downtown Seattle from Greenwood. Highway 99 was closed from Valley through the Battery... read more Seattle Transit Blog
- Seattle Adding Service on Nine Core Routes[Jun 18, 11:00 PT] [Image] Route 49 in the U-District Much of the yesterday’s excitement was about what the city plans to do with unused money from the Spokane Street Viaduct project, a Bridging the Gap project which came in under budget, but there was another, similar announcement regarding a separate pot of transit-only BTG money:... read more Politics Northwest
- Pop quiz: Seattle's mayoral race[Jun 18, 09:35 PT] Mayoral candidates gathered at the Seattle Public Library Monday night to field questions with a literary bent.At the event sponsored by Friends of the Seattle Public Library, the candidates also read from a book that shaped their view of the world. Here's a pop quiz about candidates Joey Gray, Bruce Harrell, Kate Martin,... read more Politics Northwest
McGinn campaign makes first TV ad buy of mayor's race[Jun 14, 14:31 PT] The Seattle mayor's race is heading to the small screen. Mayor Mike McGinn's re-election campaign has locked in $24,300 in cable television ads -- the first candidate to make a TV buy ahead of the Aug. 6 mayoral primary. The 30-second ads will run on a variety of cable channels from July 5 to Aug. 5, according to a summary... read more Strange Bedfellows
Center School kids get award, but not their teacher[Jun 14, 12:02 PT] In strong voice, Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn read out a human services award at a Thursday night ceremony, and proclaimed "Center School Community Day" honoring students, faculty and parents at the small arts-intensive high school housed in the old armory at Seattle Center. But the Seattle Public Schools bureaucracy... read more Politics Northwest
Robo calls in mayor's race to ID supporters[Jun 12, 15:01 PT] Seattle voters over the past two weeks report robo calls asking for preferences in the crowded mayor's race. The automated caller says there are four leading candidates, Peter Steinbrueck, Ed Murray, Mike McGinn and Bruce Harrell, though the order seems to be different on each call. Voters are asked, "If the mayor's race... read more Politics Northwest
Peter Steinbrueck pays for speech coaching[Jun 12, 10:46 PT] During his years on the Seattle City Council, Peter Steinbrueck developed a reputation for being, shall we say, a tad long-winded from time to time. When he stepped down in 2007, a colleague expressed relief that Steinbrueck's speechifying would be subject to the usual public-testimony time limits if he returned to City... read more Cliff Mass Weather Blog
Coal Train Update[Jun 8, 11:05 PT] The passage of coal trains through Puget Sound is an extraordinarily bad idea, something I have blogged about in the past. In this blog, I will provide an update on the issue and, using new information, review why local residents should oppose this problematic idea. The coal train issue has gotten a lot of attention... read more |
The Rambling Taoist
- TYT Extra - Cenk Goes Off on the Mainstream Media[Jun 18, 14:00 PT] Trey Smith If you don't like a little profanity, the video below might not be to your liking. Cenk really goes off on the mainstream media for the generally lousy way in which they are covering the NSA revelations story. Personally, I don't blame him in the least. You should hear how I scream at the TV sometimes! In this... read more The Rambling Taoist
- TYT Extra - PRISM: Just The Beginning of Spying on You[Jun 18, 09:45 PT] Trey Smith Other than The Guardian and a few writers/reporters here and there, a good deal of the mainstream media is trying its darnedest to bury as much of this story as possible. Along with Glenn Greenwald, Cenk Uygur is doing the rest of us a great service by continuing to focus on this ever-evolving story by... read more Blog Town, PDX
- Good Morning, News[Jun 18, 09:29 PT] [Image] Lots of potential progress in Afghanistan today . The US is handing the reins in its 12 year fight against the Taliban to Afghan forces, and the Taliban's saying it wants to talk peace. Protesting multitudes have taken to the streets of Brazil, as anger over bus fare hikes gave way to outrage over the country's... read more The Stranger Blog
- President Obama Says NSA Spying Is "Transparent"[Jun 17, 14:26 PT] President Obama is going to be on Charlie Rose tonight, and BuzzFeed has released a partial transcript: It is transparent. That’s why we set up the FISA court…. The whole point of my concern, before I was president — because some people say, "Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now... read more The Rambling Taoist
- What Has Gotten Into Al Gore?[Jun 17, 14:00 PT] Trey Smith You remember Al Gore, don't you? He served as Vice President under Bill Clinton for 8 years (1993–2001). Back then, he was a loyal centrist Democrat. Today, however, he almost sounds like a left wing commie -- at least compared to other leading Democrats! On Friday, he spoke out about two major issues: the... read more The Rambling Taoist
- Why Glenn Greenwald?[Jun 17, 09:45 PT] Trey Smith For an American, the traditional home for the kind of story Snowden was planning to reveal would have been the New York Times. But during extensive interviews last week with a Guardian team, he recalled how dismayed he had been to discover the Times had a great scoop in election year 2004 – that the Bush... read more HorsesAss.org
- Open thread 6/17[Jun 17, 08:55 PT] A government shutdown and new revenue forecasts tomorrow. Two of 5 things to watch as Washington state lawmakers head into week 2 of second special session. WSU researcher starts sperm bank: ""We are able to freeze and thaw well enough to make a whole generation of queens." The Freeway Blogger brings a little earth to the... read more Outside The Interzone
- Sunday Funnies: Pink Unicorn Edition[Jun 16, 14:23 PT] [Image] Funny to Me [Image] Bits and Pieces [Image] I Effing Love Science [Image] (E-mailed to me by my friend Bob) [Image] Via @KennettDems [Image] Via @CannibalPanda [Image] En Tequila Es Verdad [Image] "CSI Rug Event" Criggo [Image] Imgur [Image] Senor Gif [Image] Bits and Pieces [Image] What Would Jack Do? [Image] Bits... read more Persuasion, Perseverance, and Patience
- Sunday morning toons: Father's Day, NSA, Plan B, chest hair, and other worrisome things[Jun 16, 00:38 PT] Today's toons were selected by the same utterly arbitrary process that causes the sale of striped silk ties to hit its annual spike today, from the week's pages at Cartoon Movement, GoComics, McClatchyDC.com, Time, About.com, Daryl Cagle, and other fine sources of toony goodness. p3 Picks of the Week: Mike Luckovich, Joel... read more HorsesAss.org
- Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza![Jun 15, 01:03 PT] Thom: The Good, the Bad, and the Very, Very Ugly. White House: West Wing Week. The New and Improved G.O.P. War on Women(tm): Sam Seder: GOP lawmaker on men’s brains and women’s brains Maddow: Virginia Voters show signs of backlash against GOP anti-abortion extremism. Alex Wagner: Misogynist House Republicans... read more Ridenbaugh Press
- Big data in Indian country[Jun 10, 17:25 PT] [Image] MARK TRAHANT Austerity The 21st century is a world where data – bits of information about what we do, what we say, and how we spend money – has become as important as the story narrative. It’s hard to make any kind of case with a story alone. You need facts to back up your account. You need... read more PERRspectives Blog
- How Arrested Development Explains the Republican Party[Jun 10, 08:20 PT] The arrival of season four of Arrested Development on Netflix may have been one of the most hyped developments in entertainment in recent years. But whether you loved it or hated it--or just didn't care--it's hard to dispute the lasting impact of the show. As Ben Yagodo explained in Slate, the tale of the Bluth family... read more Ft. Boise
- New business opportunity[Dateline Unknown] [Image] Not that it's "new business" so much as one of those things we never thought of as business before, but here we go. Who could have imagined that there be something called the Corrections Corporation of America, for example (or that the text on its website would start with "welcome to")? We're not just number one,... read more Ft. Boise
Is it too soon to talk about irrational fears?[Dateline Unknown] Maybe you've seen or heard some of the statistics about risks to life, such as drowning in the bathtub or being struck by lightning. Those are 20-some and four times as likely to get you as terrorists, according to numbers in Conor Friedersdorf's assessment of libery vs. safety for The Atlantic, The Irrationality of Giving... read more Ft. Boise
All your metadata are belong to us[Dateline Unknown] We all feel so much safer just knowing someone's watching out for us, don't we? Folks on both sides of the Senate assure us it's business as usual, "a routine reauthorization" of the program (programs?) that are so secret that the legislators who are worried can't even tell us why they're worried, unless a "disenchanted... read more BlueOregon
- Let's make higher education more accessible and affordable[Jun 18, 12:00 PT] By State Treasurer Ted Wheeler Oregon has a reputation as a leader, as an innovator. That reputation is justly earned. The bottle bill, our land-use system, and most recently our healthcare transformation required us to think broadly, boldly, and creatively to meet Oregon’s needs. We all understand that wishful thinking... read more PERRspectives Blog
- How Obamacare Ends the Real Death Panels[Jun 17, 13:09 PT] [YouTube Video] For four years, "death panels" has been the GOP's killer lie in the debate over the Affordable Care Act. The slander that proposed Medicare coverage for end-of-life counseling constituted a government "death panel" that would "pull the plug on grandma" was Politifact's 2009 Lie of the Year. Then what Sarah... read more HorsesAss.org
- Wisconsin Republicans impose non-medical* rape on rape victims[Jun 14, 13:29 PT] The "New and Improved" Republican War on Women(tm) moves to Wisconsin. Over eight hours Thursday, Republican lawmakers passed not only the ultrasound bill but two other bills restricting access to abortion and contraception. One bans state health care plans from covering abortions and exempts religious groups from the... read more BlueOregon
- The association of Oregon businesses that's powerfully progressive[Jun 13, 22:20 PT] If you own or run a small business, I'm guessing you've had moments when you want to heave after hearing the National Chamber of Commerce or NFIB or any number of ranking Republicans declare what's "good for business." You know, more deregulation, more or bigger upper-end tax cuts, and occasionally, from the more shameless... read more BlueOregon
Can we have an honest discussion about health care freedom?[Jun 12, 16:00 PT] By Vicki Dunaway of Depoe Bay, Oregon. Vicki works part-time as a substitute mail carrier and office assistant to a local nutritionist. Being forced to pay a giant corporation for health insurance, as will be required under the Affordable Care Act, is certainly not my idea of freedom. On that I agree with the Tea Party.... read more The Political Game
- Dein stitutionalization[Jun 12, 13:44 PT] Perhaps the best piece I've read about the long-term effects of the policy known as dein stitutionalization ran in the Washington Post today. Harold Pollack, a professor at the University of Chicago and a fellow at the Century Foundation, wrote an important opinion piece on the policy. He points out the disparity between... read more PERRspectives Blog
- The Red-Blue Health Care Gap After Obamacare[Jun 8, 13:15 PT] From the beginning, the defining irony of the never-ending debate over Obamacare has been this: health care is worst in those states where Republicans poll best. That is, the map of the states with the worst health care systems largely mirrors GOP strongholds in the Electoral College. Red state residents are generally the... read more |
