C'mon, Seattle Times. You get a press release related to the McMenamins affair in Kenmore from some mysterious source claiming that the whole deal is off and you turn around and announce it to the world without so much as a phone call to McMenamins? When Seattlest gets a release in the mail detailing the city's plan to dye the sky green we immediately start ranting about how blue skies were good enough for us back in the day, but we expect a little more snooping around from the pros.

From the Seattle Times where yesterday the headline was "McMenamins drops plan for St. Edward State Park" and today it's "McMenamins still eyeing St. Edward State Park":

Last Wednesday, a letter was sent to the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission by the Kirkbride Group, of Lacey, Thurston County, which had worked in conjunction with McMenamins on the St. Edward proposal, saying the lease offer was being withdrawn.

Phone calls to Kirkbride were not returned Tuesday, and Rank could not explain why the letter was sent.

No one at McMenamins had seen the Kirkbride letter or was aware it had been written, Rank said.

The letter dated April 18 from K. Frank Kirkbride, company president, said it "appears to be in the best interest" of the state, the Kirkbride Group and McMenamins "to not pursue, at this time, the lease to improve and use portions of the St. Edward State Park."

Kirkbride's letter offered no reasons for dropping the proposal.

The letter came as a surprise not only to McMenamins but to the parks commission.

Our guess is one of the...we don't want to say "NIMBYpants who are opposing this project"....let's say "neighborhood groups," uh, NIMBY NIMBY NIMBYpants! One of the NIMBYs who oppose this project seems to have gamed the paper into publishing that bullshit. "It appears to be in the best interest of the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission, the Kirkbride Group, and the McMenamins organization to not pursue, at this time, the lease to improve and use portions of the St. Edward State Park?" Please. As if the Pride thing isn't giving us enough whiplash right now you gotta go and pull this, Times.