• 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!!

• "Gross!" is right. The Rainier Valley Post explores reports of mouse droppings at the Mount Baker Safeway and wonders rightly, "Where is the health department?"
• While the Mount Baker Safeway is having rodent problems, the neighborhood's Rainier Grocery Outlet is shutting down next week just in time for Thanksgiving.
• Hooray! We will be keeping at least de facto nudity at Seattle area parks.

Thursday, November 15 at 9 p.m. to Friday, November 16 at 6a.m.For those of you on foot or otherwise transportable, here's the non-specific but relevant info in that case:

SDOT’s contractor will provide a shuttle service for pedestrians and bicyclists from 9 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. between the north and south ends of the bridge (from roughly North 34th Street and Fremont Avenue North to roughly Nickerson and Fourth Avenue North) making the loop approximately every 20 to 30 minutes. Signs will be placed noting the pick up and drop off locations. Buses will be rerouted during these closures. As the date approaches, see Metro Online at http://transit.metrokc.gov or call Rider Information, 553-3000.

The PI is reporting that the Ballard Bridge is currently stuck open and that the DOT has no idea when it'll re-open. So if you're driving to Ballard this afternoon, you may want to take an alternate route. Or, better yet, don't drive anywhere near the Ship Canal this afternoon. You'll probably be better off. more ›

We don't mean to steal Mary's thunder; however, her photograph moved us to write down some of the thoughts we've been having about the Ballard Denny's closure. We knew it was coming; however, just like the presence of vampires in Sunnydale, we didn't actually want to think about it. The light, the clouds, the darkness of the trees, and the Shell sign way in the distance all punctuate the loneliness of the now-derelict sign. more ›

That headline was designed to hector Seattle because we know how awful it is for this part of the world to be compared to New York City. But showing Seattle how New York does something better seems to produce results (the M's notwithstanding). This time they're creating truly bike-friendly streets. more ›

God dammit! We're in no way convinced carbon offsets are any kind of a solution to global warming, but the news that a King County court has decided that Seattle City Light can't use ratepayer's money to buy them pisses us off nonetheless. Their argument is that it should be general taxpayer money that saves the Earth, and that ratepayer money is for the operation of the utility. more ›

We have been eagerly observing the re-construction of the approaches to the Fremont Bridge for some time now--ever since the project started in the late Cretaceous Period and we got inadvertently stuck behind some of its traffic. We watched for weeks and weeks and thought to ourselves, "just how long does it take to rebuild a two-lane approach?" Don't get us wrong; we were ridiculously happy to see actual construction rather than the usual Insipid Civic Seattle Process. more ›

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Events this past Saturday night had astronomists, seismologists, public utility watchers, and conspiracy theorists well occupied. Seattlest feels bad for those individuals that belong to two or more of those... more ›