An independent investigator appointed by the City of Bellevue announced yesterday that he could find no conflict of interest in Bellevue City Councilmember Kevin Wallace's business dealings around the BNSF rail corridor. more ›

Our bike route to work from Magnolia to Capitol Hill takes us down a short hill on 20th Ave W to the Pier 91 bike trail. That little street runs right along a ton of train tracks leading into the train yards. (It's on the back side of the Interbay Golf Center.) Generally it's filled with locomotives connected to empty cars or lines of containers waiting to be shipped one place or another. Noting terribly exciting, though if you're lucky, a train whistle will blow as you go by and scare the beejesus out of you. more ›