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On Other Blogs Today: Fed Up With the Democrats

Politics   December 6, 2010 at 6:29 pm Erica C. Barnett

1) King County Council member Julia Patterson says the purchase of a gravel site on Maury Island won’t do much to provide access to park land, the PI.com reports.

2) Food-safety attorney (and big Democratic campaign contributor) Bill Marler tells the Seattle Times he’s fed up with the Democrats.

3) On his blog, City Council member Tom Rasmussen reports on the progress of his efforts to clean up the Pike/Pine corridor, which include a rat-catching dog.

4) Capitol Hill’s Volunteer Park Cafe gets a long writeup on the New York Times‘ food blog.

5) Caffe Vita owner gets $771 fine, eight hours of community service, and probation after charges of DUI, ramming another car, and assault, Capitol Hill Blog reports.




  • http://twitter.com/LuigiGiovanni Luigi Giovanni

    5) is missing the link.

  • Barleywine

    #1
    Absolutely won’t be used by anyone but kids from Gold Beach, but not such a bad thing. They stopped the pit, and that was the only goal.

    I played there as a young adult, and fished off the dilapidated pier.
    Better to keep it abandonded, for future generations.