April 30, 2010
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 6:27 pm
One teen was injured and another boy was arrested following a brawl at a festival on the University of Washington campus earlier today. According to University of Washington Police Department spokesman George Solomon, several “uninvited high school students” got into a fist fight around 2:00pm at the “Poly Day” Polynesian festival near Red Square. Solomon [...] read more →
By Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at 6:13 pm
Christopher Monfort, the man accused of fatally shooting Seattle police officer Timothy Brenton on Halloween, made another court appearance today. It didn’t go well. From the PI.Com: While not admitting to the slaying or an Oct. 22 arson at a City of Seattle maintenance yard in which he is also accused, Monfort — paralyzed from [...] read more →
By Josh Feit at 5:36 pm
Judging from our reader survey and our analytics, and counting the comments on our posts—the reason you guys come to PubliCola (and keep coming back) is because of our news coverage. You get your news about elections, city hall, and local politics (often first) from PubliCola. With election season heating up, we’ve decided to focus, [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 5:30 pm
1. Your daily Morning Fizz. 2. HugeassCity gets a case of BikeNerd envy. 3. Chris Bushnell, former aide to Mayor Mike McGinn, charged with ethics violation. 4. Your daily PubliCalendar. 5. KC Exec Constantine won’t push for legislation to curb high-wage county employees’ health care costs. 6. Mayor McGinn gave staff raises while freezing pay [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 5:10 pm
Seattle Municipal Court presiding judge Edsonya Charles sent a sternly worded letter to the city council on Wednesday, urging the council not to eliminate one municipal court judge position, as the council’s finance and budget committee proposed doing earlier this week. Charles accused the council of failing to accurately calculate judicial workload by relying on [...] read more →
By Chris Kissel at 4:25 pm
I’ve been saving this one all week. At Tuesday night’s 34th district candidate forum in Burien, the event host John Carlson asked the State House candidates if they would support a law similar to the new immigration rule in Arizona that allows police to demand proof of citizenship from anyone who looks suspicious, ie Hispanic. [...] read more →
By Angela Garbes at 4:09 pm
My oldest brother is a genius. He was reading by the age of two; he skipped fourth grade. He scored an 800 on his Math SAT and went to college at MIT. Adding icing to the stereotypical Asian cake, he was also a piano prodigy with perfect pitch. I spent much of my youth resenting [...] read more →
By Josh Cohen at 3:50 pm
I’m sure this will come as a huge surprise, but I think you should get out on Sunday and go for a ride. Sunday, May 2, marks the return of Lake Washington Bicycle Sundays giving you the perfect excuse to take the family out for a spin or go on a romantic bike date along [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 2:50 pm
In the original version of this post, we reported that McGinn had “awarded raises” to seven of his employees. This post has been updated to reflect the fact that mayoral assistant Allison Burson’s official salary was adjusted upward 18 percent because of a clerical error that initially set her salary too low; to include a [...] read more →
By Erica C. Barnett at 1:21 pm
Although he said he was committed to requiring county employees to pay more of their health-care costs at his sales-tax announcement earlier this week, King County Executive Dow Constantine has no plans to push the county council to resurrect a proposal he sponsored last year that would require highly paid, non-union-represented employees to pay a [...] read more →
By Tom Fucoloro at 1:15 pm
A man on his way home from Georgetown was hospitalized for two days after fighting off four assailants who beat him with his cane, robbed him and attempted to steal his car. The man was driving northbound on Airport Way S near S Holgate St. April 24 at 12:30 a.m. when he pulled his car into [...] read more →
By Alexandra Bush at 1:14 pm
Tonight: In 2008, Whidbey Islander Kurt Hoelting stopped just thinking about the climate crisis, and started doing. He gave up his car and pledged for one year to travel only by foot, bike, sea kayak, and occasionally, public transportation. Staying within 100 km (60 mi) of his home over the course of that year, Hoelting undertook [...] read more →
