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People in Seattle are green green green. We're a leader on Kyoto, we hate plastic bottles and shopping bags, and our politicians often jockey over who is more green than the other. Candidates for office vie for key endorsements from groups like the C...

topics: business, candidate, city-council, environment, environmentalism

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I'm going through my notes from the Vancouver/Seattle debate and have found a number of interesting tidbits that weren't in my original story. Here's a notebook dump of some odds and ends.Call it the Lady Godiva RuleSeattle's Peter Steinbrueck critic...

topics: shoreline, transit

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I'm often a pitchfork waver, someone quick to get upset about the excesses of the wealthy. I occasionally contribute items to Crosscut under the headline Rich Jerk Watch. Which brings me to this week's brouhaha over a possible Rep. Jim McDermott ea...

topics: budget, business, economy, government, health-care

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There's a proposal making the rounds to designate a large chunk of Washington's coastline a National Maritime Heritage Area. Such an area would require an act of Congress.The proposed Heritage zone would extend up Washington's Pacific coast from Gray...

topics: bremerton, business, city-council, committee, congress

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A huge complaint of Seattleites over the years has been the proliferation of skinny houses, tall thin abodes jammed onto lots and eating up open space. But skinny houses are proliferating in Portland as part of in-fill strategies there, and some neig...

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Two of the region's civic heavyweights squared off at the Seattle Public Library on June 18 to settle the issue about which of Cascadia's two biggest cities has the best built environment, Seattle or Vancouver, BC. It was a rematch of a debate conduc...

topics: amazon, architecture, bellevue, costco, environment

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Recently, there was an event at the UW's Gould Hall showcasing the career of 87-year-old Seattle architect Wendell Lovett, whose work ranges from mid-century modern homes (like his house in Bellevue's Hilltop neighborhood) to contemporary geek gothi...

topics: architecture, bellevue, ferries, microsoft

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Seattle's Pike Place Market fish tossers are under fire. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) recently objected to a fish-tossing exhibition for a veterinarian's convention. A PETA spokesperson said Killing animals so you can toss ...

topics: business, government, political

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I fired-up my Advent Friday morning to see if anything was on, and most stations were still broadcasting before 9 am. The exception: KCTS, which has always been a digital pioneer. I received an email from Daphne Adair, the station's communication spe...

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Historic Seattle, the non-profit, public development authority that saves historic buildings and gives them life with new uses, has purchased the landmark Washington Hall for $1.5 million from the Sons of Haiti masonic organization. The deal closed t...

topics: campaign, politics, tax