All The News
-Smith Tower, Seattle icon and Seattlest logo participant, was sold today for $44M by the Samis Foundation to a Chicago investment group.
-A guy weilding a bow and arrow was shot by police in unincorporated Pierce County after a domestic violence call.
-There's suddenly lots of action on the JOA front and we'll leave it up to you to decide whether Editor and Publisher will explain it all or not.
-The 22 stowaways made two front pages today and the P-I has an accompanying piece about the "web of security" around Harbor Island. There's also some national level port security stuff going around.
-Was Darcy Burner ever a "Microsoft Executive?" 1, 2, 3, 4, Stefan declard a blog war, and, uh, says no, he doesn't think she was.
-This account of a guy's accidental trip to the ninth circle of hell mainland China is hilarious: "Oh my God, it felt like someone poured a bucket of hot water on me. I realized I was literally 200 miles south of the Mongolian border." How he made it out of one of the planet's most populous nations and an undisputed world power with his life will doubtless be explained in many books and movies.
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