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• Posted Whidbey Island Is for the Dogs to Seattlest
  Dog owners know the sign: no dogs on the beach, fines up to $500. Seattle's municipal code says so. The only way to get your dog to water (legally) is to take him to the Magnuson Park off-leash area--which Seattlest highly recommends for the giggle factor. But it's a small beach, crammed with ball-obsessed Labs. (The dog beach at the Marymoor off-leash area--outside city limits--is even smaller, and the area itself was underwater for...
• Posted Ballard Bridge Is Like, So Stuck Up to Seattlest
  It was a scene not unlike the one represented here--minus the large, ancient ship--today when the Ballard Bridge got stuck in the upright position at afternoon rush hour. News reports tonight don't spell out the reason for the inappropriate...oh, you just fill in the joke here. The bridge is almost 100 years old and was rehabbed last in 2002....
• Posted Peace Arch Less Than Peaceful to Seattlest
  Seattlest normally thinks of the Peace Arch along the lines of those posters that the dentist helpfully affixes to the ceiling: something to look at while you endure an unpleasant, dullsville experience, such as getting a tooth drilled or sucking exhaust while you wait to cross the border into B.C. It wasn't so dullsville Tuesday at the Peace Arch, up near Blaine, as two alleged murderers--on the run from charges in California--blew through the...
• Posted The Continuing Decline of Alaska Airlines to Seattlest
  We've all heard about Alaska Airlines's shoddy on-time ratings and their labor disputes. And we've all heard about the outsourced baggage handler who drove the cart into the plane but neglected to report doing so, thus causing a hole to burst in the plane at altitude, forcing an emergency landing. If that isn't enough to turn your airfare dollars elsewhere, this morning brought two new bad-news-for-Alaska stories to the Seattle Times. The airline faces...
• Posted Monorail Mementos for Sale to Seattlest
  Seattlest shelled out the $255 and got our new license-plate tag in the mail the other day. (Remind us to tell you the story sometime about the time our brother's mother-in-law, horrified at the state of affairs at her daughter's apartment, took the initiative to vacuum...and inadvertently vacuumed up their new license-plate tag.) Imagine our surprise when we popped open the envelope to retrieve the world's most expensive sticker and saw what's pictured on this...