• A neighborhood-based local business discount card for Capitol Hill? Um, yes please! CHS tells us the Capitol Hill Chamber of Commerce is exploring the idea (take a survey about it here), and JSeattle leaks via Twitter, "Think it's definitely happening. Question is how it works." Rad.
• West Seattle Blog posted a surprisingly brief blurb on Mac Clay's $15 million settlement from a lawsuit over his paralyzing injury two years ago at West Seattle High School.
• Have you taken your walking tour of the viaduct yet? Queen Anne View reminds us that we have another chance on March 21. It's free, and only 45 minutes. Do it.

The bored tunnel option just got a big wet kiss from the Senate, though its House reception will not be so warm. Still, the clock's ticking and WSDOT, King County, and the City of Seattle are inviting you on a free short walking tour of the viaduct on Saturday, March 21, while the structure is closed to traffic for an inspection. more ›

Yesterday, faced with a rare workday afternoon with not much to do, Seattlest decided to go for a long walk. Our initial goal was to make it to Golden Gardens in time for sunset, followed by happy hour at Ray's. We knew that was kind of a pipe dream because it was 2:30 by the time we got this crazy idea, and we live on First Hill. Instead, we decided to aim for Golden Gardens and just see how far we could get, figuring Gasworks Park was maybe more realistic. 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 ›