Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Seattle Steam Company, about which I wrote last year when it announced it would begin burning waste wood, is about to start generating electricity for...
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Two mainstays of the University District will soon be no more. [Originally posted 10/22/09] In May, I wrote about the University of...
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Via the Seattle PostGlobe — Washington state turns 120 on November 11, 2009, and the blog of the Office of the Secretary of State has posted a...
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My latest piece in Crosscut.com is on the recent addition of white-on-brown street signs to Seattle's inventory. They are meant to mark our network of...
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I must admit to being an infrequent reader of The Stranger, "Seattle's Only Newspaper," and I certainly didn't expect to find something of...
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Driving home the other day from Lake City to Roosevelt, I saw the banner to the right across a nondescript building on Lake City Way N.E. at N.E. 82nd...
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The cover of the September 2009 issue of National Geographic features a shot of Lower Manhattan. To the right of a yellow dividing line is how the...
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I just got an e-mail from the Washington State Historical Society and Museum announcing that this October is the third annual Archives Month in the...
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A while back, Allan Phillips, co-owner of the Carleton Avenue Grocery in Georgetown, wrote to ask me if his was the oldest grocery store in Seattle....
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In the early morning hours of June 30, an arsonist set three fires in downtown Snoqualmie. According to the SnoValley Star, one was set behind...
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