We had no idea Seattle Metropolitan even had blogs, but they do, and the fashion one (the first one we clicked on) by Laura Cassidy is fun. Cassidy was not enamored with Michelle Obama's white ball gown but really dug her lemongrass suit. Seattle Weekly's new music editor, Jonathan Cunningham, introduced himself over at Reverb ("I'm not a hipster. I pull no punches"). Over at Sound Politics, Stefan Sharkansky is freaking out about mail-in ballot signature verification. And the great debate about school closures continues, respectfully, at Crosscut: they've published the School Board's rebuttal of Dick Lilly's argument that the SPS shouldn't close any schools at all.
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--Gawker likes to point out hilarious writing every once in awhile and we're pretty sure they'd have something to say about "After the National Weather Service announced it was asking the public to name last month's windstorm, it got blown away by the number of entries." more ›

-Urban Golf Part Deux went down over the weekend. more ›

Stefan Sharkansky at Sound Politics calls bullshit on a letter of condolence regarding the Jewish Federation shooting (which Sharkansky calls a "terrorist attack") that Jeff Siddiqui, a local Muslim leader, sent to the Jewish Transcript. This paragraph from the letter seems to particularly offend Sharkansky: more ›

Blogging star of right Stefan Sharkansky (Sound Politics) and blogging star of the left David Goldstein (HorsesAss) were the guest speakers at yesterday's Microsoft PAC lunch. more ›

There's approximately 550,000 people in Seattle, and about 45,000 of them voted yesterday. What did this select few decide? more ›

Judge John Bridges of Chelan County Superior Court just finished reading his ruling on last year's governor's election. He ruled against the Republicans, saying that for him to overturn the election based on proportional analysis, without proof of fraud, would be "the ultimate act of judicial activism." more ›