Just because we're stopping, doesn't mean the world is stopping along with us. Here are today's newsworthy items: Suicidal barbecue grills, more information regarding the man who killed a beloved high school teacher and mother, and a man in West Seattle wishes to keep us well-supplied with plastic grocery bags. more ›

While Christmas in Seattle was pretty much defined by Sunday's arrival of Windmageddon 2011, it was still a generally peaceful weekend, with some notable exceptions, naturally. more ›

*TM Publicola Today in over-reactionary news: Chainsaws! Stabbings! Hoaxes! Mayan Doom Predictions! Columbia City Re-Opens! Wait, that last isn't reactionary at all... more ›

If there was a theme to be found amid today's slate of news, it's the time worn cliche that one thing will inevitably lead to another, although Chaotic elements could always be counted on to shake things up a bit now and then. more ›

At the end of the day, Thursday brought several handfuls of items we've been expecting for quite some time. more ›

On Tuesday's roster: The eviction of Occupy Seattle from the Seattle Central Community College campus; the high cost of Rob McKenna; the belated creation of checks and balances to the Seattle Police Department; and unions strike back at 1-1183. more ›

Cop layoffs, professorial blast backs, child custody settlements and elusive protesters; these are the encapsulated details from an otherwise lackluster Monday. more ›

It's been a day of reckoning on many levels, as the judicial system handed down several decisions that affect a wide array of people in the Seattle area in both positive and negative ways. more ›

It was a good day for some creeps, a bad one for others, balanced out by a successful protest and the discovery of a woman that's been missing for 18 years. more ›

It's been a mixed day for protesters and well intentioned self-styled superheroes, although the Seattle Police Department gets the better end of the stick once again. more ›

I mean, really, could this week have been any longer? Ah, well, at least the commute will be li--never mind, 99's closed until 8:00p.m. tonight. Check inside for some other ponderables (are all cops bad liars? If McKenna supports something does that make it less palatable?) amid a silver lining (Yay, council approves the creation of an immigrant/refugee commission!) to end the week. more ›

A look at what else happened today beyond Occupy Seattle's eviction: bigotry goes on the public record, an SPD cop commits the crime he's supposed to prevent, the worst lie ever told to cover up an assault and more! more ›

It seems everyone, even the newsmakers, rabble rousers and muck rakers have taken Friday afternoon off. more ›

Metro's woes put into context, a rather regrettable lapse in political wisdom, and a macabre end to a very slow news week. more ›

Chris Bushnell, Senior Advisor to Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn resigned yesterday afternoon after it was revealed that he lied about having a doctoral degree from the University of Washington. He was also convicted in 1994 of felony bank fraud, although McGinn says he knew about Bushnell’s criminal record when he hired him. more ›

The local homeless advocacy organization SHARE is forcing its residents to participate in camp out protests in front of elected officials’ homes, reports PubliCola. more ›

The Seattle Times reported that minority group leaders called both McGinn and Joe Mallahan "strangers," and not in the Balki-Bartakamos wacky roommate way. more ›

Publicola got their hands on a UW research poll that shows leftward-leaning Mike McGinn "leading" in the mayor's race among Republican voters. McGinn's got 15 percent to Nickels' 10 percent. McGinn says the appeal is due to his "fiscal conservatism" in being against the deep-bore tunnel. That said, the poll's 600 people surveyed left Nickels in the lead, with Mallahan, Donaldson, Drago, and McGinn each divvying up about 10 percent. more ›

Our August 18 primary is being held entirely by mail--we got our ballot last week. If you're still scratching your head over the mayor's race, check out Publicola's interviews with the mayoral contenders (scroll down to item #5). more ›

When we first read the headline "1 in 3 Americans likes to nap" in the Seattle Times, we initially thought, Sweet, we can do an Times Op-Ed board joke! But then fate--well, Publicola--provided us with better napping evidence. more ›

Erica C. Barnett over at Publicola has an interesting tidbit this morning: apparently, a local lobbyist has filed an ethics complaints against Mayor Greg Nickels for the above ad. The shot that's causing the trouble is at 40 seconds in. Apparently, that shot of the new Link Light Rail line wasn't filmed from a public area (or so the complaint maintains), raising the question of how the crew got access. It would be a violation for Nickels to use his power as mayor or other public resources to help his election campaign. UPDATE: As comments suggested, it turns out it was pulled from earlier footage, according to Publicola. more ›

• "Thousands" of Seattle residents have access to Qwest's superfast VDSL2 already, says TechFlash, with a top speed of 40 mbps download/20 mbps upstream, and all for only $110 per month...when combined with your monthly phone service.
• Don't worry, reassures the Seattle Transit Blog, light rail ridership will grow like kudzu. And then the Seattle Times will write about how crowded it is.

• Urban farming--Sightline has a nifty article with mock-up photos about what it would be like to really green up our cities. Because, you know, it would be totally cool to have cows on the roads.
• Publicola has its own problems with recent KING5/SurveyUSA polls, offering the hope we could have both a bag tax and a not-Mayor Nickels! Oh, and Erica C. Barnett scratches back at Joel Connelly for flaming her in his column today.

Publicola is feeling grim about the legislative session's taxes vs. deficit paralysis, and boils down the basics with a look at Rep. Eric Pettigrew’s (D-37, S. Seattle) sales tax bill. It called for an increase of three-tenths of a percent, and Publicola says its failure—"with a $13 million cut to children’s health care, a $75 million cut to low-income care for hospitals, a $28 million cut to mental health care among other cuts—defines the 2009 session." more ›

• Easter on Capitol Hill will be easier to navigate, thanks to CHS' guide.
• West Seattle Blog has the scoop on Easter in their neighborhood, including church and non-church services.
• Rainier Valley Post has details on recent crime on Beacon Hill, as well as a request for volunteers to tend to traffic circles.

• MyBallard has photos of a very cute raccoon lounging in the sun on someone's roof, watching the world pass by. That's exactly how we want to spend the afternoon.
• The Rainier Valley Post spent yesterday at Seward Park. We'd settle for lounging in the sun there instead of on someone's roof...!
• Beacon Hill Blog published a reader's letter asking for improved internet service in their neighborhood.

• Feeling lonely? The Daily Weekly says Larry Phillips will email you if you email him. (Wonder if he'll send pics, too.)
• Publicola says Gregoire does not support a state income tax, so stop asking. Goldy at HorsesAss is not so sure he's entirely against the idea.
• Fourteen percent university tuition hike, anyone? The Capitol Record reports on why that might not be feasible.

The Seattle Times discusses how the planned Senate budget cuts "roll back much of the party's agenda." Publicola has four "angry press releases" on behalf of service workers, NARAL, low income housing, and childen's health. And Schmudget lays out the cuts in the areas of education and health, pointing out that some cuts are so deep, they effectively cut twice, by losing access to federal recovery funds. more ›

Newly minted mayoral candidate Mike McGinn has already provoked an awkward situation. While McGinn didn't want to get into Nickels-bashing at his press conference, his campaign fired off an email critical of mayor Nickels' green credentials today, so Publicola's Josh Feit got Nickels' man on the horn for a response. Only thing is, Nickels' man is Publicola's Sandeep Kaushik. Kaushik responded, “Nickels has an excellent environmental record,” and “I’m surprised Mike McGinn is going negative so early in this race," and did not say, "This is an untenable position, and I can clearly have no comment." more ›

• A Redmond-based firm's high-tech biomaterial is being used to treat dogs with glaucoma, reports TechFlash.
• Rainier Valley Post has a story about a woman whose laptop was stolen right out of her lap as she was working in a Southend coffeeshop.
• CHS is celebrating the release of a new infographic (!!) showing the busiest pedestrian areas of downtown, and wishing we had the same kind of map for the Hill.