Results tagged “tomcarr”

• The P-I reports that Washington unemployment hit 9.3% last month, up from 9.1% in May.
• The Big Blog says that Allstate has found what we all already knew: Seattle drivers are amongst the worst in the nation.
• The Magnolia Voice has info on the "Admiral's House" up above Smith Cove that the Navy plans to sell off. If you have need of a two-story, eight-bedroom house on four acres of land with one of the best views in the city, apparently you should look into it.

Yesterday, we spoke up early against closed city council budget-cut discussions. Later that afternoon, the Times published an editorial agreeing with us--and this morning, they've published opposition to the meetings from the Seattle city attorney and the Washington state attorney general's office. The Times also tried to send a reporter into one of the closed meetings, and has this to report: "A Seattle Times reporter was denied entrance to a budget briefing on Thursday afternoon. Tom Von Bronkhorst, a legislative aide to Councilmember Jean Godden, physically dragged the reporter away from it by the strap of her bag." Holy crap.

We almost classified this as breaking news: prostitution does not, after all, usually follow what City Attorney Tom Carr calls the Pretty Woman model. In all the 21st-century mish-mash of interactive culture, infotainment and news media increasingly focused on Hollywood's mind-games, we're grateful for the reminder; lately, when we drive around South Lake Union in the evenings, we squint at every prostitute on the sidewalk, hoping we'll run into Julia Roberts. That would make a really great morning news item, unlike the boring but true report that now real prostitutes and their johns are going to have to pay for their own group therapy because real life is even messier than TV.