As of yesterday, Boeing machinists have been on strike for 30 days with no end in sight. Workers who have waited out previous strikes are predicting this strike will last longer than the previous record-breaking 69-day strike of 1995. This go around, Boeing machinists are striking for better pensions, benefits and a larger wage increase. Also at the heart of the strike is job security, which decreases every day the strike continues: Boeing has begun......

Oh, old Seattle, we can't help but love you and your straight-forward, "won't you please please like me" style. When we were a kid, Seattle was some place stuck in a far-off corner that wasn't mentioned on the national news unless Boeing had a round of lay-offs. Back then, we had to advertise and encourage people to come and move to the Emerald City with catchy slogans. Slogans like the following from 1976: Courtesy of......

"Batman vs. Superman" courtesy of Flickr photographer Sheeky The Belltowner reports on the SPD's arrest of Superman on 3rd and Pine. Apparently, Superman is jealous of all the attention Batman is getting and threatened to snatch a baby.According to MyBallard, over 3.5 million people tuned in on Tuesday night to watch the season finale of the Deadliest Catch—the real man's reality show with a Ballard connection.The ever-busy West Seattle Blog posted photos of coyotes and......

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......