Flamingo chick at Woodland Park Zoo (Photo: Dennis Dow)
Via the Seattle Bubble (of course), let’s point you to the Puget Sound Business Journal story on class action status granted to the Washington Mutual suit. While you’re at the PSBJ, read this article on the double-dip in Seattle housing, and remember to buy your friends in the real estate business a drink. The Stroupe Condo Blog covers the last days of the McGuire Apartments.
In other news, State Supreme Court justices Richard Sanders and James Johnson made the Seattle Times for suggesting that while minorities end up in jail disproportionately (as part of the population), they do so under their own steam. Sanders helpfully clarified that certain minorities are “disproportionally represented in prison because they have a crime problem.” (Also, things burn because they contain a “fire-like element.”) Minority News has another angle.
Medical Teams International emailed us to say that a medical team of eight nurses from Washington state, assembled by North Shore Baptist Church in Bothell, has left to help with the cholera outbreak in Haiti. You sort of wish the epidemic hadn’t been foreseen many months ago. In contrast, one of our big concerns is whether light rail is running on time.
RIP, flamingo chicks, we hardly new ye: “The two Chilean flamingo chicks that hatched this month at Woodland Park Zoo have passed away. The older of the chicks was found dead this morning in the exhibit, and the younger of the chicks was discovered missing Sunday night.” And now…
Neighborhood Headline News
- Body found near where woman disappeared (My Ballard)
- Don’t hate the station, hate the game (Beacon Hill Blog)
- Giant F$((($% Waterfront Ferris Wheel? SRSLY? (belltownpeople)
- RIP Watertown Coffee & Saloon (Capitol Hill Seattle)
- Accusations and amendments fly as school board decides on fate of MLK school property (Central District News)
- Fremont Troll turns 20, and his knoll could get a financial boost (Fremont Universe)
- Stray bullets (The Garfield Messenger)
- Is this a prank, or plausible? (Blogging Georgetown)
- North Seattle Sarah: Musings on Day 50 in Green Lake (My Green Lake)
- Magnolia set to lose crime prevention coordinator (Magnolia Voice)
- Jack Cellars celebrates “Last Syrah,” sale continues (Maple Leaf Life)
- Beer Trek beaming down at PNA (PhinneyWood)
- Queen Anne burglary spree comes to an end (Queen Anne View)
- OP-ED: State’s Most Vulnerable Citizens About to Lose Critical Safety Net (Rainier Valley Post)
- Windows on Religion Tap Rich Traditions in Rainier Valley (Southend Seattle)
- President Obama headlines rally on UW campus (U District Daily)
- Wallingford No. 1 for trick-or-treating (My Wallingford)
- Some inside scoop on Obama’s Wedgwood visit (Wedgwood View)
- Alaskan Way Viaduct inspection results: “Minor” settling (West Seattle Blog)
