A bouncer and a homeless dude dueled using a boxcutter and a wooden sword outside a Seattle club. more ›

Over the weekend and again this morning, a bug has been affecting Link light rail's ticketing system, telling aggrieved would-be riders no soup for you "transaction canceled." Bummer. more ›

The Seattle Times has a complaint from a Redmond woman who was taking two kids to the fireworks on the Fourth. On holidays, Metro's policy is that kids ride free with a paying adult. But it turns out the Fourth is not a holiday...well, not a Metro holiday. Metro's holiday was the Third of July, which as you know celebrates the day the Founding Fathers settled on the parchment for the Declaration of Independence. more ›

Friday we got our new ORCA card in the mail and ran straight to the computer to add cash dollars to our account using our ultra-high-tech VISA technology. Saturday we checked the account and saw $0.00. Oh, wait: "Any value purchased in the last 24 hours may not be shown." Really? Is someone doing this by hand back there? As of now (2.5 days later) our transaction is still pending, our ORCA card useless. *sigh* Great idea, though! more ›

• Today is 4/20, so you know what that means, 53 days left till TV goes digital and it's National Lima Bean Day too. And you thought we were going to go there. For shame.
• Capitol Hill wants to know, has anyone seen Kiwi?
• Gas is up 17 cents, but transportation luck is on our side, first the ORCA card, now the debut of Sound Transit light rail on July 18.