Expect to be shelling out more of this for just about everything. Photo courtesy of Seattlest Flickr Contributor Culinary Fool Everything! We wrote that to be glib, but then realized it's painfully true. Every day that passes, the prices seem to rise on everything imaginable—from groceries to gasoline. The cost is only going up. At midnight tonight, when a slew of new Washington laws go into effect, we can add several new items to......

Ceis was irritated by Licata's criticism. "I don't poke around and ask questions about Nick's personnel and the council's personnel. I don't think it's any of their business about how we deal with personnel issues in the mayor's office."That's Seattle Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis, not sounding as nearly agreeable as Michael J. Fox, as quoted in the Seattle Times story on the kerfluffle over new communications director Robert Mak's salary. At the risk of stirring......