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I wouldn’t expect someone who wants to build everything — highways, transit, etc., to have much of a problem with the deep bore tunnel. I certainly wouldn’t expect a pro-highway, anti-transit person to like surface/transit. What less understandable is people that think the marginal dollar is better spent on transit, including the vast majority of the people hanging around here, and at the same time all surprised that STB would take a strong position in favor of surface/transit/I-5.

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I wouldn’t expect someone who wants to build everything — highways, transit, etc., to have much of a problem with the deep bore tunnel. I certainly wouldn’t expect a pro-highway, anti-transit person to like surface/transit. What less understandable is people that think the marginal dollar is better spent on transit, including the vast majority of the people hanging around here, and at the same time all surprised that STB would take a strong position in favor of surface/transit/I-5.

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We’re seeking an artist or artist team to create a temporary, site-specific public art project for the new Jackson Street Plaza at King Street Station. The station is located in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood at South Jackson Street and Third Avenue South.

The artwork should enliven the space and offer passersby a new and energized view of the historic train station. Possible approaches may include projections or light, participatory or interactive artworks, and/or a temporary installation in the plaza.

The opportunity is open to established professional artists living in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, California, Alaska, or British Columbia, Canada. The application deadline is 11 p.m., Wednesday, April 27. The total project budget is $35,000, all–inclusive of travel expenses, taxes, and all project costs for design, fabrication/production, installation and removal of artwork.

A link to the online application and guidelines is available here.

The project is in partnership with the Seattle Department of...

Seattle Times photo by Jim Bates

When asked about the 2011 high-school baseball season, Puyallup coach Marc Weise said it best. It's "one of those years where it's up for grabs."

The season is underway - when the weather allows - and teams all over the state have championship aspirations. While polling coaches and members of the media, the only consensus is there are no early season unstoppable forces on a collision course for a revamped Cheney Stadium, which will house the Class 4A and 3A championships,

Gordon Carpenter and John Bogar in "The Threepenny Opera". Photo by John Ullman.

State Rep. Tina Orwall’s (D-33, Des Moines) bill to extend the Safeco Field, Qwest Field, and Kingdome (yes Kingdome) taxes for an expanded convention center, workforce housing, and arts funding passed the house yesterday.

The PI.com has the story.

We reported on the bill in Fizz a week ago when it came with talk of money for an NBA stadium in Bellevue. The bill explicitly forbids that now.

Dreams to get the NBA to set up in Bellevue apparently fizzled when the attendance at New Orleans Hornets games—

Seattle state Reps. Jamie Pedersen (D-43) and Reuven Carlyle (D-36) have introduced legislation that would effectively exempt houseboats from some local environmental regulations, prompting alarm in the environmental community and renewed negotiations with the city of Seattle on proposed environmental rules the houseboat community says are excessively stringent.

Some background: In 2004, the state amended the state Shoreline Management Act, which hadn’t been updated since 1972, to reflect current

Federal Office Building

At a "Guess the Dow" lunch at the Met last week (I'm holding off on writing that up until I can get all my stock picks locked in), I heard an interesting expression used to describe the pro-tunnel strategy: an "assumptive

SunBreak Flickr pool superuser Slightlynorth was at Qwest Field last weekend. Jealous?

Wednesday, January 12th

• It's a veritable cavalcade of local pop bands with Let's Get Lost, Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground, Exohxo, and Ravenna Woods @ Neumo's
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of the Emperor of All Maladies (among the New York Times' "5 best nonfiction books of 2010"), talks cancer history @ Town Hall (Great Hall)
• CANCELED: Eric Alterman explains that liberals will continue to be disappointed

In tragic news, on Thursday around 12:42 pm, a man was struck fatally by a northbound Link train while crossing against multiple warning signals at S Holgate St in SODO. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death a suicide, the Seattle Times reports. This is Link’s second fatality since it opened in July 2009. The first fatality was also a suicide that occurred in the same area shortly after Link opened.

In tragic news, on Thursday around 12:42 pm, a man was struck fatally by a northbound Link train while crossing against multiple warning signals at S Holgate St in SODO. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death a suicide, the Seattle Times reports. This is Link’s second fatality since it opened in July 2009. The first fatality was also a suicide that occurred in the same area shortly after Link opened.

Due to demolition and utility work for the Alaskan Way Viaduct (AWV) Metro is rerouting some southbound buses off 1st Ave for the next month. In February Metro will completely reroute buses off 1st for the next few years to avoid construction delays and confusion related to the AWV project.

Metro’s press release after the jump.

Two construction projects begin next Monday, Jan. 3 that will create temporary reroutes for several King County Metro Transit bus routes that normally

Due to demolition and utility work for the Alaskan Way Viaduct (AWV) Metro is rerouting some southbound buses off 1st Ave for the next month. In February Metro will completely reroute buses off 1st for the next few years to avoid construction delays and confusion related to the AWV project.

Metro’s press release after the jump.

Two construction projects begin next Monday, Jan. 3 that will create temporary reroutes for several King County Metro Transit bus routes that normally

Seattle City Light crews Tuesday night and Wednesday morning identified and repaired two streetlights that were giving off contact voltage. No one was injured in either case.

About 10 a.m. Wednesday, a customer called City Light to report a suspicious streetlight in her Blue Ridge neighborhood. The woman’s dog had yelped when it approached the pole and a friend’s dog had shied away from it.

A City Light crew responded immediately and measured 48 volts of electricity on the pole near the intersection of NW Blue Ridge Drive and NW 100

Tuesday night, Power Survey Co. (PSC), one of two contractors hired by City Light to help inspect all 20,000 metal streetlights and associated equipment, discovered a faulty streetlight near the intersection of Second Avenue and James Street. Old wiring had deteriorated, sending about 35 volts of electricity into...

On December 29th at around 12:22 a.m., West Precinct patrol officers responded to a burglary of a bar in the 1000 block of 1st Avenue S.  The male suspect attempted to make a getaway on foot but officers quickly located him in the north parking lot of Qwest Field.  His escape attempt may have been hampered by two things:  he was still in possession of eight stolen 750 ml bottles of hard liquor and he had sustained a significant laceration to his hand climbing through the window he smashed to gain entry to the bar.

The 47-year-old suspect was positively identified by witnesses and recognized by several officers as the suspect in an attempted burglary to a vendor’s stand near Qwest Field a few months ago.  The suspect was transported to HMC for treatment with a guard and will be booked into King County Jail when treatment is complete.

From our friends at Public Health Seattle/King County:

Partners supporting traffic safety convene “Night of 1,000 Stars Patrols”

Extra traffic patrols this weekend

KING COUNTY, WA — This Friday and Saturday marks the 20

“Let’s all work to make this a safe holiday season for our families and communities. Last year, 265 people were killed in Washington in impaired driver involved crashes,” said Dr. David Fleming, Director and Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County. “If you drink, make plans for a sober ride before going out and see that your friends have a safe ride home as well.”

The statewide Night of 1,000 Stars enforcement will remove impaired drivers from local roads. Impaired driving caused by alcohol – or some other drug – is the primary reason why people die in motor vehicle...

Hundreds of Seattleites walked through the rain to Safeco Field this afternoon to remember Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus. It was the largest such memorial since Kurt Cobain's in 1994. Cobain and Niehaus shared this gift: They were both storytellers.

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion wrote. I will append this: We also listen to stories in order to live. And when the storyteller dies, we feel compelled to thank them for their life-sustaining work.

Niehaus and Cobain performed

There are no significant updates to the officer involved shooting  that occurred yesterday in the 500 block of 3rd Avenue.

The involved officer, a 20-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department, fired his service pistol once, striking the suspect.

The suspect remains at Harborview Medical Center where he is receiving emergency care.  His injuries are non-life threatening.  His identity has still not been verified.

The pistol recovered from the suspect’s waistband is a Ruger .22 caliber pistol (pictured below).  It was not loaded.

The investigation remains active and ongoing.

On December 7th at approximately 10:00 p.m. officers responded to a 911 complaint of a man at a bus stop at 3rd Avenue and Yesler Way carrying a gun.  The suspect was further described as a Hispanic male wearing a light blue hoody.  Officers arrived in the area and noticed a suspect matching the description provided on the west side of the street in the 500 block of 3rd Avenue near the bus stop.  Officers attempted to contact the suspect but he walked away from them.  Officers gave voice commands to stop however, the suspect continued to disregard the officers’ commands.

One officer deployed his taser and then saw the suspect reach into his front waistband area and grab what appeared to be a metallic object.  The officer immediately dropped his taser, drew his gun and fired.  The suspect was struck once in the torso area.  Officers provided first aid, secured the suspect and called for medics.  A handgun was recovered from the suspect’s waistband.

SFD medics responded to...

A Seattle police officer apparently shot and injured a man in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle Tuesday night shortly after 10 p.m.

Police have not yet briefed the press, but a witness, Colin George, who lives in Seattle’s Beacon Hill neighborhood said he saw the aftermath of the shooting from a bus.

George said the man who had been shot was lying on the sidewalk shot and saying, “You shot me! You shot me!”

The police information officer has just arrived on the scene, and more information should be

Posted by news intern David Trujillo

It was the morning of December 1, just this past Wednesday, when a woman entered a building near 2nd Avenue South and South Jackson Street, approached a man sitting at a table, “set down a note in front of him, and then stabbed him in the neck with a pen,” according a Seattle police report. The woman then reportedly left and headed north to commit three more alleged assaults.

Walking up 2nd Avenue, the woman attacked another woman by grabbing her hair and then

The Sounds of the Holidays Are Starting!


The sounds of the season will be in the air tomorrow night, Friday, December 3, when the 24

Saturday, December 4
Our Lady of the Americas Religious Procession:   11 a.m.

St. Mary Church

800 participants<...

There has got to be a better way to borrow money.

Seattle police arrested a 27-year-old woman Wednesday morning after she tried to stab a man, assaulted a woman and then punched a security guard.

According to police, the woman walked into a coffee shop near Third Avenue South and South Jackson Street around 10:45 a.m. and tried to stab a man who was seated at a table. Her weapon of choice, according to police, was a pen. The woman also threw down a note on the table indicating that she needed money

On December 1st, at approximately 10:45 AM, West Precinct officers responded to a call of  an assault inside a coffee shop near 3rd Avenue and Jackson Street.  The female suspect walked into the shop and attempted to stab a man seated at a table in the neck with a pen.  As the woman was attempting to stab the man, she threw a note on the table indicating that she needed money to return to California.  The victim sustained a scrape and some redness to his neck.  The suspect then walked out of the shop and ran into a woman who was walking on the sidewalk.  The suspect then showed the woman the same note and attempted to steal that victim’s purse from off her shoulder.  The suspect pulled the woman’s hair in an attempt to get her purse.  A couple of Parking Enforcement Officers were nearby and observed the struggle.  They intervened and the female suspect pushed one of the PEOs.  The Parking Enforcement Officers were able to control the suspect and get her on the...

Apparently something happened this week besides Seattle being hit with a snowstorm. We postponed a couple of pretty decent policy posts to give wall-to-wall coverage of the storm, and you’ll probably see those next week:

• Yonah Freemark reports that the transit federal tax subsidy, set to fall below the subsidy for parking, is on the agenda to be restored to the same level during the lame duck session.
• Lessons of the snowstorm from an operator; video of buses on snowy hills.
• Young punk

Apparently something happened this week besides Seattle being hit with a snowstorm. We postponed a couple of pretty decent policy posts to give wall-to-wall coverage of the storm, and you’ll probably see those next week:

• Yonah Freemark reports that the transit federal tax subsidy, set to fall below the subsidy for parking, is on the agenda to be restored to the same level during the lame duck session.
• Lessons of the snowstorm from an operator; video of buses on snowy hills.
• Young punk

-- From Times staff reporter Sara Jean Green:

A 29-year-old Seattle man was booked into the King County Jail Sunday night on investigation of attempted murder in connection with a stabbing in Seattle's Sodo neighborhood, according to police.

Around 3:45 p.m. Sunday, officers were called to a bus shelter at the corner of Fourth Avenue South and South Holgate Street, where they found a man on the ground suffering from numerous stab wounds, police said. Witnesses provided officers with a suspect description,

On November 21st, at approximately 3:47 PM, West Precinct officers responded to a call of a man assaulting another man at a bus shelter at the corner of 4th Avenue South and South Holgate Street.  Officers arrived at the location and discovered an adult male lying on the ground in the shelter.  He had been stabbed numerous times.  A witness provided the officer with a suspect description, which was broadcast to other officers in the area.  King County Sheriff’s Office Metro officers located a man matching the suspect description near Airport Way South and South Hill Street.  The suspect was arrested without incident.

The victim was treated at the scene by the Seattle Fire Department and transported to Harborview Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.  The 29 year old suspect, after receiving treatment for an injury to his hand, was booked into the King County Jail for Investigation of Attempted Homicide.

Homicide detectives will handle the follow up investigation.

If there's one thing Ke$ha knows how to do, it's tell stories. Here's a pretty good one: Two years ago, the aspiring pop singer and songwriter decided she

Tonight the Seattle Planning Commission is having a release event for their “Seattle Transit Communities” report, which from my understanding has been in the works for the last few years. The event is at 5:30 at Pyramid Alehouse (1201 First Avenue S) accross the street from Safeco Field. While I haven’t seen the document yet the Washington State APA newsletter has a short blurb about it (1/3 way down) and it appears Dan Bertolet has. More after the jump.

My favorite

Tonight the Seattle Planning Commission is having a release event for their “Seattle Transit Communities” report, which from my understanding has been in the works for the last few years. The event is at 5:30 at Pyramid Alehouse (1201 First Avenue S) accross the street from Safeco Field. While I haven’t seen the document yet the Washington State APA newsletter has a short blurb about it (1/3 way down) and it appears Dan Bertolet has. More after the jump.

My favorite

Juanita Wright, who is charged with four counts of vehicular assault in connection with the crash outside a Seattle nightclub last month, pleaded not guilty Monday in King County Superior Court.

Wright, 43, also known as Juanita Carpenter and Juanita Mars, was arrested after police say she struck a group of people in the 1700 block of First Avenue South before 11 p.m. Oct. 28. The victims had just left Seattle's Showbox SoDo and were walking in an unmarked crosswalk when they were struck, according

WSDOT Traffic Advisory

Travelers should plan for street closures this weekend near the SODO stadiums in Seattle.

Construction crews will close sections of S. Royal Brougham Way and Alaskan Way S. to install utilities for the project to replace the south end of the State Route 99 Alaskan Way Viaduct between S. Holgate and S. King streets.

Mariners fans who plan to attend Saturday’s Safeco Field tribute for late play-by-play announcer Dave Niehaus should plan to arrive early and allow extra time.

Nov. 12-15 weekend closures

• Northbound Alaskan Way S. will be closed between S. Atlantic Street and S. King Street from 7 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday. (A single lane of southbound Alaskan Way S. will remain open, but no left-turns will be permitted onto S. Royal Brougham Way.

• The ferry traffic holding lanes under the viaduct will be closed from 6 a.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday.

• The bike path along Alaskan Way S. between S. Atlantic and S. King streets will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday....

    SEATTLE – Hall of Fame announcer Dave Niehaus, the lead voice for the Seattle Mariners since their inception, died Wednesday.

    The 75-year-old, who was inducted into Cooperstown in 2008, reportedly died of a heart attack and was found by his wife, Marilyn, on the back deck of his Seattle home late on the kind of sunny Seattle afternoon that he loved.

    "This is a terrible loss,’’ club president Chuck Armstrong said. "He has been the link between the fans and the team since the club was founded.’’

    Niehaus, who started his career with the California Angels in 1969, moved north when the Mariners began play in 1977 and was widely credited with growing the Mariners fan base during decades of losing before the team finally came into its own competitively in the 1990s.

    He was so much the epitome of the organization that when Seattle moved into Safeco Field after the All-Star break in 1999, Niehaus was chosen to throw out the first...

Join in for the second in a series of workshops on public art and the law, coordinated by 4CultureandWashington Lawyers for the Arts.

Proprietary Issues in Public Art will be noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Place S., Seattle.  Attorney and educator Robert Cumbow will provide valuable legal information on intellectual property issues specific to the field of public art. City of Tacoma Arts Administrator Amy McBride will offer examples of how complex issues play out in the real world. Together, they will tackle topics including:

•    Fair use in public art of copyright, trademarks, names and faces.

•    Does the artist or commissioning agency/company own the copyright in the work?

•    What are works-for-hire provisions?

•    What are proprietary differences between permanent and ephemeral public art?

•    Who can authorize and own derivative works?

•    What are the rights under the Visual...

David Makuen isn't the first guy to come up with the idea of stuffing "extras" into a burger rather than onto a burger (my husband's been doing that since he got his hands on this "Cooking Light" recipe for a ham and-Swiss-stuffed burger years ago), but Makuen's certainly the first to start a successful burger business on the web, then take it to the streets of Pioneer Square.

On Monday, after 16 months in the freeze-it and ship-it business, he and his crew threw open the doors to the brick-and-

WHAT: Sunday's opener in a home-and-home, first-round Major League Soccer playoff series between the L.A. Galaxy (18-7-5) -- the Western Conference champion, top-seeded team and winner of the Supporters'

A woman was partially pinned under a vehicle after a collision early Sunday near Second Avenue South and South Jackson Street in Seattle. Police said the woman's husband was driving at the time, and she was ejected after he ran a red light. The two had gotten into an argument at a nearby hot-dog stand, police said, after the woman spoke to another man.

The woman, who had possible broken bones in one foot and damage to some teeth, was taken to a local hospital after being pulled from under the vehicle.

On 10/24/10, at approximately 12:30 a.m., officers responded to 2nd Ave S and S. Jackson St to a call of a vehicle collision where a woman was partially pinned under a vehicle.  Upon arrival, officers found one unoccupied vehicle that witnesses identified as having run a red light.

The female victim had been ejected from one vehicle in the collision and ended up with a foot trapped under the tire of the other vehicle.  Officers moved the vehicle away so that Seattle Fire Department personnel could extricate the female victim.  It was soon learned that the driver of the suspect vehicle was the husband of the female victim.

The woman’s husband (suspect) eventually returned to the scene.  The incident allegedly began at a hot dog stand a block away where the woman spoke to another man.  This led to a verbal dispute between the couple.  As he drove recklessly away and ran a red light, the female victim (wife) was somehow ejected from the vehicle.

The female victim was treated on scene by...

The Seahawks will play the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday, October 24th, at Qwest Field starting at 1:05 p.m. A total of 67,000 fans are expected. Drivers should expect heavy traffic near the stadiums and on streets leading to the stadiums.

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With the final segment on Cherry Street now finished, the City of Seattle has completed its three-year effort to repave key streets to and through Seattle’s downtown. Over that time frame the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has rebuilt and repaved 101 lane-miles, with 86.5 of those within or leading to the Central Business District (see attached map). In order to complete this significant body of roadway work, the City invested more than $80 million in paving from 2008 through 2010.

“We need to take care of our streets,” said Mayor Mike McGinn. “The City’s arterial repaving program is important to give everyone a smooth ride. We save money in the long run by investing in regular maintenance of our city streets. I commend SDOT staff for getting this important work done and for efficiently spending the funding approved by Seattle residents in Bridging the Gap.”

Some of the streets improved in this three-year effort were:

-Second Avenue – Yesler Way to Denny Way

-Third Avenue – Spring Street to Virginia...

Seattlecrime.com:

Former Deputy Mayor Tim "The Shark" Ceis is facing hit and run charges after he allegedly left the scene of an accident in downtown Seattle in May.

Sources say a witness called police just before 6:00pm on May 28th, and reported that an Infiniti had struck a scooter parked at 1st and Cherry and driven off. The witness apparently got the plate of the vehicle as it fled, and police determined it was registered to Ceis.

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