The captains of Ballard industry just had their complaints against the Burke-Gilman trail's extension (it's in their way, it'd be a traffic hazard) tossed by Seattle's Hearing Examiner in June, so now they're filing an appeal. more ›

While Nike and Starbucks get applause for their leadership in sustainability--especially Nike, which joined Johnson & Johnson in publicly scolding the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its opposition to global warming legislation--Sightline wonders why Amazon, Microsoft, and Boeing aren't putting their lobbying efforts where their corporate climate policies are. "Google has," says Sightline's Fahey, twisting the green knife (our italics), and linking to a video of Google's Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, testifying to Congress. Her point is, "Standing on the sidelines of the debate in the state legislatures and in Congress can be as damaging as standing in the way." more ›

We got a postcard on Saturday that there's a "Restaurant, Retailing & Business Seminar" today at 3 p.m. at Seattle Central Community College for businesses around the Capitol Hill light rail station. "Come learn proven techniques to increase sales and profits," it says, and is co-sponsored by the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce. Two restaurant consultants, a retail consultant, and an HR executive will be there to talk about taking orders over the noise from the backhoe...uh...branding and reducing employee theft. more ›

Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, you can join Seattlest (MvB) and CHS (jseattle) for a eye-opening talk about neighborhood and news blogs and online marketing. We're holding the big event at Office Nomads on Capitol Hill (invitation with RSVP right here). The workshop is sponsored by the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce, begins at 9 a.m. (should be about 90 minutes with Q&A), and comes with a $5 suggested donation to the Chamber. We just went over the PowerPoint deck with jseattle, and boy is he good with maps and infographics. If you're curious about who the new neighborhood media are in Seattle or why to advertise with them, come by and enjoy a cup of coffee with us as we explain. more ›

This morning we were down at the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce breakfast and regional economic forecast discussion, which opened with chair Tayloe Washburn being emotionally overcome while talking about how strapped food banks are for donations. (At which point we sorely regretted suggesting the chamber was "populated largely by jaw-dangling idiots," and wished we'd stuck to the rule of vilifying awful ideas rather than the people whose heads they're stinking up.) more ›