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Bitcoin ‘miners’ want a LOT of our electricity; Maru Mora Villalpando’s day in court; iHeart Meida goes bust; what St. Pat’s really means.
The #Enough protests show what’s right with Those Kids Today; the Amazon angle to the Toys “R” Us demise; still more Alexie reactions; how Seattle’s Capitol Hill ‘gayborhood’ grew and shrank.
3/9/18: BLACK UNLIKE ME
Clark,
The Amazon debate was against two people representing the Chamber of Commerce for the YES proposition. And while only 17% identified as Amazon, it was pretty clear from the start that the audience veered young and tech. (Ex-mayoral candidates) Moon and Oliver were able to swing the vote 6% points winning the debate as the audience slightly went fractionally for the NO side in the end.
Re Parking, reading Crank it’s no wonder that you frame it as a NIMBY problem. In reality it is developers that are producing expensive (not affordable) housing without parking because they can now by externalizing their costs to already crowded streets. The promise was that without parking, housing would be affordable. And a 50 unit micro project–if it actually had affordable units, would be understandable without parking. Instead we get $1,200 220sft units that only drive other lower end units up in process, and on average 30+% of those units have cars pushing us over the capacity of street parking. We are not managing the problem well, and erring in favor of developer profits.
Regards,
Bill
Rachel Dolezal resurfaces again; deadly-force reform passes on Legislature’s last day; Amazon’s local effects get debated; Tully’s endgame underway?
The costliest painting ever sold comes to SAM; WA Legislature sprints to the finish; Chris Hansen keeps buying Sodo land; Seattle World’s Fair’s PR genius dies.
A famous highway tunnel’s sad-looking last days; a ‘post-Alexie’ era in Native lit; Legislature’s clock ticks down; ‘Dreamers’ are literally putting out fires (up to now).
A Seattle punk-scene reunion; Sound Transit funds still imperiled; hunger-strike ICE detainee out of solitary; downtown Tacoma gets upscaled.
Startup chocolate maker snags a hi-profile storefront; more harassment charges against local politicos; could a hoops payoff scandal upend the NCAA?
Images of Northwest natives then and now; a Murray accuser sues the city; Boeing offices to become storage lockers; Billy Graham’s tarnished legacy.
Office art gets artier at local corporate HQs; Jenny Durkan’s ‘State of the City’ speech avoids easy answers; an Ijeoma Oluo essay didn’t take down Al Franken (despite recent claims that it did).
Flying cars (or something like them) at last?; did the state DOL help ICE prosecute Maru Mora-Villalpando?; stop pipelines with wine!
An icy valentine; UN human-rights watchers speak for Maru Mora-Villalpando; a legacy gay ‘steam room’ club’s for sale (again); the cost of faulty computer systems.
‘Dune’ author gets his memorial park at last; Valentine’s thoughts on jaded cynicism (hint: it’s passé); one more ‘bad apple’ caught at ICE.
An outspoken Seahawk preaches understanding; how awful the proposed federal budget is on just about everything; saving a mural in a ‘mothballed’ building.
Right-wing rally turns to nonsense; Amazon’s ‘Spheres of Panopticon’; another beloved cinema to be razed?; could Boeing v. Airbus turn ballistic?
