Kim P.

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• Posted Mobile Phone App Coddles UW Freshman to Seattlest
  Isn't the first day of college supposed to be about getting lost on campus and desperately searching for a classroom you should have been in twenty minutes prior? Nowadays, UW freshman have it way too easy with their new fancy-schmancy University of Washington iPhone app (and a mobile phone site no less!) that was launched yesterday. TechFlash reports that not only does the mobile mommy app provide a campus map, it also offers sports scores,...
• Posted Neighborhood News And Local Blog Round-Up to Seattlest
  • Oh noes! It must be bank-robbing Thursday, as police investigate three two mid-day stick 'em ups.The robber(s) hit up a BofA in Renton this morning, then ventured to Cap. Hill to rob the Group Health Credit Union on 15th Ave., reports CHS Blog.
  • Seattle's newest blog--err...sorry--e-magazine on the block, The SunBreak launched today. The site was created by a familiar moniker we all just so happen to know. (waving) Hi MvB!!
• Posted Big Issaquah Pot Farm Seized on State-Owned Lands to Seattlest
  More than 25,248 marijuana plants have been confiscated from their home on the nicely irrigated land in Issaquah, known as Taylor Mountain. With a helicopter overhead and a SWAT team on the ground, in total the Eastside Narcotics Task Force spotted and removed three outdoor pot-growing operations, worth an estimated $5 million yesterday. In addition, drug enforcement agents also located a deserted camp, believed to house up to four people tending to the weed along...
• Posted Neighborhood News And Local Round-Up to Seattlest
  • Another creepy Washington horse story, of course, of course. A 26-year-old Kennewick man was arrested Friday, caught without his pants and chasing the neighbor's very scared horsey. Ummm...dude, if you don't recall, horse and human sexual relationships generally don't have a happy pleasant ending.
  • The Puget Sound Business Journal spells it out in big numbers that a whopping 68,800 jobs have been lost over the past year in Seattle alone.
• Posted Referendum 71 Signatures, Everything But Fake to Seattlest
  There was some hope when the math was getting too tough and many signatures for the "everything but marriage" Referendum 71 were turning up invalid, fake, or unregistered. But with a tally of 121,486 valid voter signatures, the referendum will be ballot-bound this November. All the while, Vermont is off celebrating the new same-sex marriage law with a bowl of Ben & Jerry's newest gay-friendly flavor, Hubby Hubby. One day. (sigh...)...