As we have documented before our local politicians enjoy wagering on sportsball games with politicians from other cities. However, for some reason our guys keep picking the Seattle team and losing the best. The latest of these bets was between Mayor Nickels and Chicago Mayor Daley over the recent Seahawks-Bears playoff game. Once the Bears won Nickels owed Daley some microbrew, coffee, and other Northwest goodies. However, much like his plan for a waterfront tunnel,......

--The bet is on - If the Bears win on Sunday Mayor Nickels will cough up some salmon and coffee to Chicago's Mayor Daley. If the Seahawks win Daley has promised not to kick his ass. --The Huffington Post found out about Federal Way's Inconvenient Young Earther who got the Al Gore film banned from schools down there. --Local online real estate site Redfin is teaming with local software manufacturer Microsoft for their new......

The Viaduct's closing this weekend for repairs and we should keep it closed. We're never going to decide anything while traffic is flowing freely because the problem isn't apparent enough. The Viaduct isn't safe. We're going to replace it with a tunnel or a bigger viaduct or maybe nothing at all, but we'll vote on that for the first time at the end of 2007 and who knows how long it'll be after that. We'll......