WSDOT by Viaduct rubbish removal - Oct 23, 2011 from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

viaduct #5 by photosbysomeguy from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Bellevue teachers make their frustrations with the superintendent official, a key official in the Viaduct replacement gets the hell out of Dodge, Belltown takes a new approach to getting drugs off the streets, and Seattle's website is the best in the nation. Somehow. All this, plus a very special Friday Morning Jam. more ›

A judge gave tunnel opponents some bad news today. Time is running out for anyone who wants to stop the pricey dig. more ›

Mike McGinn, local enviro and an increasing threat to Greg Nickels's re-election effort, is doing his damnedest to make Nickels pay for lobbying so hard for a waterfront tunnel. The Times has a report on McGinn's strategy today, while Publicola points out McGinn supporters have launched a new anti-tunnel website. more ›

• Finally, some good news on the horizon with regards to housing in Seattle! Seattle Bubble has the story.
• Real estate on Beacon Hill is looking promising, too, reports Beacon Hill Blog, thanks to light rail plans.
• Ballard has a lot to discuss about how the viaduct will affect their neighborhood, and My Ballard hosts the conversation. (My Ballard has an unusually active comments section, we're noticing today.)

• The B-Town blog's seventeen-year-old film critic loves racist grandpa Clint Eastwood. In other Burien child labor news, the blog has also taken on a fifteen-year-old intern.
• If someone broke into your car and stole your things sometime before December 11th, MetBlogs has the info on how to stop by a police station and claim that which has been ganked.
• Phinneywood reports that the 12,000 tons (24,000,000 lbs!) of sand spread during Snowmaggedon will be all cleaned up a week from today. As always, when it comes to city services, we'll believe when we see it.

• A neighborhood as incorrigibly cute as Wallingford has to have an equally cute moniker for its neighborhood blog. Enter Wallyhood, the new kid on the local blog block. Welcome, little one. Live long and prosper!
• CHS, the motherblog for Capitol Hill, turned three years old yesterday. Cap To The Hill extended congratulations, a beautiful DIY card, and a saucy invitation to the CHSers in honor of the occasion.
• Phinney Ridge: good and good for you. Knees up, ladies. Walking those hills on the regular will help you tone your patootie!