• It was just another case of the slow-going Mondays when a power line pole--and a live wire--came down early this morning after a garbage truck slammed into it. Power was shut down and Aurora Ave. was closed while crews cleaned up the busted pole strewn across the corner of Northeast 84th Street and Aurora Ave North.
• This weekend's street closures were for a just cause, as 2,513 dedicated people walked, jogged, and pedaled their way throughout Seattle in the LIVESTRONG Challenge, which raised over $1 million to fight cancer.

It is Vancouver, our international neighbor to the North, that has been smelling the garbage piles filling up their region's landfills. To deal with the looming garbage issue, Vancouver's Metro voted to export its overflowing garbage to the U.S. (including Washington State). With easy access to rail transportation, it's no wonder why select Washington landfills are being considered as one of Canada's newest contracted dumping sites. Now will our landfills feel the brunt of Vancouver's 2010 Olympics waste, too? Here in the U.S. we have enough trash to deal with, including the nation's reported 64.5 percent of garbage which ends up into landfills--and we recycle. more ›

CleanScapes, the new "green" local garbage company, has been driving us nuts here on Capitol Hill, with up to three or four trucks parking various times of the day near the intersection of Bellevue and Thomas, leaving us wondering why they need so many trucks when they clearly have nothing to do. Well, it turns out, they . "CleanScapes and Waste Management, which divide the city between them, have skipped 5 percent of pickups at apartments, condos, and businesses with dumpster service, according to SPU officials." Nice. more ›