There's a 36-year-old senior surgical resident with the University of Washington who's in the hospital as a patient this week. Police are still looking for his assailants. If you were wandering around Belltown at 2 a.m. on Sunday morning and remember seeing a fight, or a group of meatheads running away from one, call the Seattle Police Department's Homicide and Assault unit at 206-684-5550. more ›

We became a pothole snitch this morning. We turned in the huge holes alongside Cal Anderson, in front of Vivace, thanks to "encouragement" from a commenter on an earlier pothole post:

instead of complaining about the potholes in a blog posting maybe you should fill out the online form and report them so they get fixed. but that might be too easy and would give you nothing to whine about.

WaMu is like a free public water fountain these days. Except instead of water, it's all bad news. And it's not free, it's costing billions. But it is highly public! more ›

When we did our walking tour of the Viaduct last year the engineers in charge managed to convince us that the millimeters-a-month descent of the Viaduct--as portrayed on these little plastic doo-dads--was positively a free-fall. And it was very convincing. We walked off the elevated roadway with our stomachs planted somewhere in our throats and vowed to never walk under that segment of the Viaduct ever again, a plan which has been enforced by chain link fences and a busy construction site ever since. Today, due to some particularly incessant jack-hammering, probably, we inspected the shoring-up work for the first time... more ›

Wall Street is a terrific place. If we wanted to be worth more money in desperate circumstances, we'd probably have to come up with more than a rumor. But not when it comes to the stock market. more ›

Seriously, we're surprised the local news stations have not created special icons to attach to all of their recent environmentally-motivated arson stories. Usually, if an event has gone on this long or had this much prominent news coverage in Seattle, local newscasters have given it some sort of pet-name by now. more ›

The University District was plagued with violent assaults this weekend. Within a 36-hour period four students were assaulted in what were thought to be related attacks, a man was seriously injured in a stabbing, and another University of Washington student was robbed at gun point. more ›

Welcome back to the Port of Seattle Roast, already in progress. Yesterday the Port released its response to a hilariously detailed audit commissioned by State Auditor Brian Sonntag, which "agrees with 37 of the audit's 49 recommendations," reports the Seattle Times.

For instance, the Port will immediately cease informal ways of resolving disagreements with contractors, known as "tummy rubs." more ›