Listen people, skateboards are not a tool of the devil. Wouldn't you rather have your kids outside, getting some exercise in a publicly-sanctioned location, rather than either sliding down your neighbor's handrails or off doing much worse? Not if you live in the Greenlake/Wallingford neighborhood, it would seem. more ›

The P-I is reporting that the fight after the fight for the trees at Pioneer Square is for the wood from the London planes that were removed. Apparently they won't go into the fireplace of the mayor's guest cottage as we'd originally suspected. A developer (Smith) wanted the wood for trim on the waterfront street car shed that we can't believe is still being built on the edge of Pioneer Square. Another guy (Newsom) who has a business making furniture from "urban wood" had previously been promised the logs by the Parks Dept. Holy shit what's going to happen? The urban wood guy got the stuff because he was willing to haul it away yesterday. more ›