A Tacoma barista has gone far beyond offering good customer service. The barista, Sandi Anderson, is donating one of her kidneys to long-time customer Annamarie Ausnes. Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, Annamarie's kidneys are failing and none of her family members are a match for donation. In November, when she broke the bad news to her friendly Starbucks barista, Anderson decided to lend much more than a supportive shoulder to cry on.......

In November, Mike Hamilton adds this racist joke political commentary to his notorious Uncle Sam billboard: In December, massive floods dunk that section of I-5 into suspiciously biblical amounts of water. Co-inkydink? Or is someone "up there" even more displeased with Hamilton's latest message than everyone else who's seen the billboard?......

--After one city council member's aide was killed by a car while crossing the street, and another's stepson was seriously hurt in a similar accident, you'd better believe the council's ready to take the most decisive action they can. That's right--city charter be damned--they're going to "approve a resolution creating a pedestrian master plan and a city-appointed advisory group to develop it." Ugh. --Today at 10am, on KUOW, former TV commentator Walt Crowley says his......

Seattlest posted a lament recently about the unexpected down-side to the new indoor smoking ban, specifically our newly rediscovered sense of smell. Where is the justice in prohibiting one foul odor only to open the floodgates to lesser noxious fumes? Apparently, the champions of freedom at the ACLU read Seattlest, as they have now seized this historic opportunity to answer the call to justice (from their recent news alert): Religious exemption to the Clean Indoor......