The Weekend Wrap Won’t Let Money Come Between Us

by Michael van Baker on September 11, 2010

Mayor McGinn announced that he’d talked the unions representing city employees into letting go of their two-percent COLA; instead they get 0.6 percent. The city’s projected deficit for 2010-12 has grown by $11 million, to $67 million, since April. That kind of pressure has led the city to blackmailpressure MOHAI into giving up relocation funds won from the state, with MOHAI reaching DEFCON 1 (“We’ll close, we swear it!”) in short order.

Boeing got local-source religion. Microsoft worked on cementing their image as the Evil Empire. Amazon may have leaked Office for Mac 2011′s ship date. Starbucks decided drive-through customers were really thirsty.

Cliff Mass says the only question is how strong our La Niña winter will be–cold and wet, or colder and snowier. While the Howard Hanson Dam situation has improved, “Now is not the time to relax,” says King County Council’s Julia Patterson. Wet weather isn’t good news for residents of Redmond’s mold-infested Riverwalk condos, but stay tuned–I hear the cavalry may be coming.

Around the neighborhoods, Capitol Hill residents learned they have deer and a start-up incubator. TechFlash took a tour of Belltown’s PopCap Games. Eastlake’s Floating Homes tour is Sunday, Sept. 12. “Seattle’s Landmarks Preservation Board voted to nominate the community-center building and steam plant at the 580-unit Yesler Terrace public-housing project for landmark designation.”

Southend Seattle looked into the economics of urban gardening, while RVP wondered if the Southeast Education Initiative was “an abject failure.” Did closing the South Park Bridge kill Hooters?

Interbay got a distillery. Ballard adopted a seal pup. Fremont is holding a LoveFest even as I type. My Green Lake reported that you wouldn’t even know the SHARE shelter was there. Magnolia Voice checked in on the Discovery Park cougar’s new life. Maple Leaf Life explained where they were (hint: not Canada). PhinneyWood covered the Fred Meyer remodel. The NE 45 Street Viaduct reopened on time.

Wallingford pored over designs for a new transfer station. Wedgwood View announced a fundraiser for the Picardo P-Patch, Seattle’s mother of all P-Patches. West Seattle Blog reported on the solar powering of the High Point Neighborhood Center.

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