Results tagged “denied”

Downplay the bad, highlight the good. Don't let your competitors know too much.That's how the sales game is played, and that's the strategy WaMu was trying to use when it asked the courts if it could refrain from disclosing how much it had cost them initially to purchase some of their assets, which are now again for sale. The feds saw right through the potential ploy, though, and the bank got a giant "denied" stamp on its request. The assets in question were declared not part of WaMu's shaken, shaken core, and therefore confidentiality wasn't going to help them against competitors. It certainly wasn't going to help them get their groove back.

• Our hearts and all our positive thoughts go out to Amber at the Rainier Valley Post and her neighbors. The RVP, which has been tireless about covering neighborhood crime, has had violence strike far too close to home. Amber's neighbor was stabbed to death yesterday by another neighbor, the victim's husband.
• Capitol Hill Seattle is still playing with Google Street View (no blame, we totally are too) and CHS stumbled upon an interesting scene on 12th Avenue street view. Looks like a parking cop is giving a lecture, surely an unpleasant moment for at least one party. It's frozen now for all to see.
• Now that Thanksgiving has come and gone, West Seattle Blog is all about the next round of holidays. They have not one, but two posts about West Seattle Christmas lights, as well as a post about where in West Seattle to get your Christmas tree.

Timothy Garon is 56 years old and dying of liver failure. Without a liver transplant, he will die in a matter of days, but the University of Washington Medical Center has decided he is not a fit candidate for a possibly life-saving transplant. The reason? Garon used physician-prescribed medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of hepatitis C, the disease that is killing him.