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I think vaginas are the best tunnels, but it is pretty neat that you have two news items today about tunnels.
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If I've figured right, 29,322 cubic yards of concrete will go into the pilings of Bertha's access pit, only about 15% less than used in the California Academy of Sciences building (Hoover Dam contains 3.25 million ydÂł). The difference, obviously, is that Bertha's wad of concrete will be abandoned soon after use.
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50% of those "news" items are simply links to already existing posts on Slog. Perhaps Eli you're confusing "Best of Slog" with the news. I thought especially you Eli, of all staffers, had more of a passion for your work.
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The School Board was doing its job vetting the math textbooks. Unless the additional member was elected, that wouldn't have even happened, and the existing books were crap. If Jose couldn't handle tough questions to his staff, he had no place as superintendent. I can't believe the Stranger flip flopping on this after the fact.
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Gregoire should be put up for indictment.

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The sins of the mother.... down with Courtney Gregoire and her special appointments to the Seattle Community College board and then the Port of Seattle Commision.
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Hey sgt doom,
Go fuck yourself, you nutty tin foil hat wearing pos. No wonder you dont make shit for income, because nobody wants to hire a dipshit like you.

so go ahead, keep complaining about how the evil 1% are holding you back, the rest of us with a clue are living well and making plenty of cash

go away loser.
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@9
I wouldn't quite put it the way you do but basically you are correct.

@7
Can you believe it? We give Gregoire junior plum jobs just because her mother was incompetent.
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So, even after all this overly delayed work just to access Big Bertha, there is ZERO guarantee that the "fix" won't result in a second breakdown in another 1000 feet.

And it's still the most obvious contribution to Global Warming GHG emissions in Seattle over it's lifetime. Not just construction, not just the emissions of cars (zero transit) in it's reduced capacity, but OPERATIONS will make our "green" Seattle plans a mockery.

Mr. Governor and Mr. Mayor, kill this Tunnel.

Now.
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What the 'Thirty Five Percent' article fails to filter is the irrelevant data: among debt collections, at least 40% of them are phony or invalid. There is a common practice for collection agencies to buy old debt--which is only a portion of the actual amount due (anywhere from 12 months to 7+ years after supposed debt)--and then make attempts to collect the _full_ amount plus fees (often very LARGE fees) when the debt isn't even valid. These phony/invalid debts are reported along with the data, even if the consumer did indeed pay off the debt (but records get fudged, are incorrect, etc.).
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It is not the school board that drives away superintendents, it is the incompetent, arrogant central staff and their dysfunctional political culture. No one wants to take the blame for all of their failures.
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No, there is virtually no one "wondering" about superintendents in Seattle except the Seattle Times editorial board (but they have this weird fixation on this topic), Tim Burgess (who would like to be mayor and then get rid of elected boards and appoint the board himself) and a few random ed reformers.

That's it.

Seattle Schools has a cultural dysfunction at headquarters. Anyone who knows this district, knows this for certain. Superintendents die, come and go, are exited and things remain the same.

Years ago, there was a great report by a local firm, Moss-Adams, that basically said, that if you don't change the culture of a bureaucracy, you change nothing.

So it is for Seattle schools and their administration.

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