Seattle & King County
2007 in review: Crosscut's most clicked-on stories
Transportation, impact studies, Big Brother, newspaper technology, and the essence of modern Seattle: Who knew this stuff would be interesting and popular?
Chuck Taylor
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Seattle & King County
Land of the Giants spatulas invade South Lake Union
I don't get out much. Recently I walked the length of the Seattle Streetcar line, from the Cheesecake Factory all the way to Hooters [/mossback/10818/], through South Lake Union, a neighborhood where I worked for 16 years but in which today I could get lost and almost did. I tell you, it's scary wha
Tech
The merger of the century
Random notes and links on the Microsoft bid for Yahoo ... ... As the day unfolds, Phase 2 of coverage will kick in for tomorrow morning's news cycle, and the focus will be on how this deal would actually work. Wait. It's already begun [http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2008/0
Environment
White highways
Here in Seattle, the ground is merely wet [http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sew/webcam.php] after overnight snow was predicted, but elsewhere the Northwest snow is falling on top of earlier snow, schools are closed, and residents are bracing for more. As of this writing, there is a heavy snow warning and an
Politics
As long as we're beating up on the mayor today ...
Seattle Mayor for Life Greg Nickels [http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/] is issuing press releases fast and furiously. There are, after all, only 546 days until the election — the 2009 election. And although he has no real opponent as yet, His Excellency has only $129,639.98 in the bank for the 2009