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- Local Buses overflow, squeezing riders and transit in King, Snohomish counties
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Buses are overflowing throughout the central Puget Sound area. On a typical weekday this spring, people took about 477,000 rides on King County Metro Transit, Sound Transit and Community Transit buses, up 8 percent from 2007. Thousands of others used a van pool, train, water taxi or streetcar.
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- Crosscut Seattle - The greening of Greg Nickels
  Posted by Jeff from crosscut.com
  "If the federal government is not going to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol," he said in his State of the City speech, "why can't we just do it at the local level?" Since then, 850 cities have signed onto Nickels's brainchild, the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. They've pledged to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The mayor's bold gesture inspired hundreds of other city, state, and regional climate change initiatives.
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- Welcome to Nickelsville - Seattle Homeless Take on Mayor's Image
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Weekly
  Though it took root this summer, the seed for Nickelsville was planted years ago with the creation of the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness. The idea, as the name suggests, is to end homelessness by building more permanent low-income housing, and to lead people toward self-sufficiency by weaning them (and cities) off stopgap measures like shelters. It's an idea that Nickels has bought into-and one that is arguably not working.
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- In mock tribute, 300-foot statue of Allen sought
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  "I think Kapow! has found themselves a wonderful way to make more money poking fun at Paul Allen than selling coffee," said Vulcan spokeswoman Lyn Tangen. "I'm pretty skeptical anyone could do a 300-foot statue anywhere in the neighborhood or anywhere in the city." That same coffee shop, she noted, has also enjoyed great success poking fun at the new South Lake Union trolley, which Allen persuaded the city to support. Kapow! became an overnight hit when it dubbed the streetcar the S.L.U.T. and now does a brisk business selling its "Ride the S.L.U.T." T-shirts
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- Seattle's smog levels violate federal limits
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Heavy traffic and hot weather pushed the Seattle area over the legal limit for smog this weekend, violating the federal Clean Air Act for the first time in more than a decade. The infraction saddles local officials with the responsibility of drafting a new plan to improve air quality, which could include tougher rules for car and industrial emissions. But the Puget Sound region won't face any consequences until at least 2010.
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- Smog puts Seattle area at risk for pollution penalties
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Seattle's brown summer skies have never been much of a secret: The Seattle area is on the verge of getting a brown smudge on its green reputation. A combination of thousands of tailpipes and factories, summer sunshine and stricter pollution standards is putting the region on the brink of violating federal smog standards
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- Divers come up with new hook on lake's spikes
  Posted by Jon from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Spikes pulled from the bottom of Green Lake, now a total of 86, may turn out to be less ominous and more practical than originally thought and have probably been in the water much longer than the month or two park officials originally estimated. Several of the 2-foot or longer pieces of metal recovered by divers and snorkelers Friday had hooked tops like candy canes. Some speculated that the spikes, about as thick as pencils, had been used long ago to tether something to the bottom of the lake. "Not in the last 20 years," said park officials.
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koroth comments on:
Seattle's smog levels violate federal limits

Not particularly. Still, air quality all over this country has improved a lot over the years. Note the "for the first time in more than a decade" comment. Also, the ozone limites were reduced this last May. Seattle was easily within the previous limits.
Chalk it up to the perfect storm of vacation traffic and hot, still air. It’s not evidence of increasing pollution.

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10:11 am 8/24/08
theangryindian comments on:
Seattle's smog levels violate federal limits

Surprised??

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6:30 pm 8/19/08
Jon comments on:
Local Sharpened spikes at Green Lake

Ick. There are some nasty people out there, I guess.

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10:46 am 7/17/08
okami comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

sure. . .that’s about three times what i’m paying on my house. . .which takes up half my retirement. . .
affordable? not to people worse off than me.

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1:22 am 7/02/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

Nickels may be a community leading green mayor but he’s also a developer’s mayor and paul allen’s mayor and a do-little mayor on transit.

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11:35 pm 7/01/08
lizsternberg comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I was motivated to write to May Nickels in response to this. Here’s what I wrote to him:
"I do not believe $1115 in rent a month is "Affordable housing."

The fact that there are many well to do business people in Seattle should not put a shadow over the Childcare professionals, construction workers, educators, and Administrative Assistants who make less than 40K a year. If they had to pay $1115 a month it would most certainly be well over 30% of their income.

Are you trying to turn Seattle into an elitist community, or what?"

If you feel the same way, you should email important officials too.

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11:22 pm 7/01/08
Aisleace comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I always heard that rent or housing shoud be 25% of your salary. That $1115 a month works out to a salary of $53520 a year. They must be rich in Seattle if low income singles (because it’s a studio apartment) are making over $53000 a year. Based on a 40 hour week that works out to $25.48/hour.

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9:36 pm 7/01/08

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