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- Seattle’s rotting produce and other food waste goes to a composting plant in Everett. Our newest export: stink.
- If, as the Times‘ Danny Westneat claims, Microsoft no longer needs over $100 million instate tax breaks, does the Times still need its own state tax breaks?
- As the last beams at the old Boeing Plant #2 come down, Jon Talton notes that the old Boeing corporate culture is also now mostly gone, replaced by Jack Welch-style cost cutters and bean counters.
- Local essayist Seth Kolloen compares the early years of Pearl Jam to the Kemp/Payton era Sonics. At least we still have Vedder & company.
- Descendents of Capt. William Clark (of “Lewis and…”) built a symbolic canoe for a southwest Wash. tribe, to replace one the captain stole way back when.
- A few right wing writers and pundits have identified the biggest force restraining their corporate masters from getting everything they want. It’s democracy. Therefore, to these guys democracy is something icky that must be done away with.
- A few handy comparisons between right-wing fantasyland and reality.
- You’ll have to listen instead of getting to read, but here’s an argument for the premise that punk rock was invented by Jews.
- Sara Horowitz sees a new “middle class poverty” in which everybody’s treated as (and as badly as)Â freelancers, and envisions a “jobs plan for the post-cubicle economy.”
