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-The City Council got a look at some proposals for the new 520 this week and we're hoping to get to see them ourselves soon. Earlier this week the Montlake neighborhood's Alaska-esque plan to launch traffic into space was shot down by the state.

Yesterday while most of the city was all a-twitter about President Hu’s visit to the city (today he will get a tour of the Fun Forest, and attend a live taping of Northwest Afternoon), Ron Sims proposed a plan to pay for more buses by raising the county sales tax one tenth of one percent.

The Hu stalking was pretty straightforward yesterday: airport, downtown, Redmond, Medina, roughly. You could have followed the helicopters around to get a good idea of the Chinese president's movements, or the protests were also a good indicator. Notable signage we saw around the CBD included Falun Dafa and the old standby: Free Tibet, which we love to see. It's just comforting to know that despite all the trendy new reasons to be pissed off at China there are still diehards out there willing to dust off the Free Tibet signs they drew up in the 90s. You go, protesters. Free Tibet.

You've heard of Gawker Stalker, right? When someone spots a celeb walking around Manhattan they notify the Gawker website of the identity and location of said star and a bunch of weirdos can track them on a map. Celebrities hate it and stalkers and people who think it's funny to piss of celebrities love it.