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The mayor's electric train
The Seattle Streetcar was unveiled with Greg Nickels at the controls. After some weeks of testing, the streetcar named streetcar, and not named SLUT, will begin carrying regular passengers.
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That which we call a SLUT by any other name would be a big mistake
Time to stop the teeth-gnashing at City Hall. SLUT is here to stay. Without an ounce of forethought, Seattle has stumbled onto one of the hallmarks of a proper big city: a memorable mass-transit name. The Underground, Metro, Desire, BART, Sky Train, Broadway Local, The MTA. These are names that st
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It takes a village to raise a blog
PR Newswire [http://www.prnewswire.com/], that busy source of tips and announcements that fills our e-mail boxes just as press releases used to fill those wire in-baskets, has some highly relevant-to-blogging content. Survey results [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/s
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Now, who wrote that initiative you're endorsing?
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig may be the most despised politician in America. But in Seattle, the most reviled figure in politics must be Tim Eyman, the king of Washington initiatives. So there was much surprise in the editorial Sunday in The Seattle Times [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialso
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Does Tim Burgess have faith in himself?
He better, because in his commentaries for The Seattle Times he set a pretty high bar for his performance.