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The last two Seattle City Council meetings have been disrupted by a mysterious man wanting to address the council. At the March 24 meeting, after being prohibited from speaking, the man was shown Seattle code by legislative assistant Theresa Dunbar. (Public comment is allowed during council committee meetings or public hearings, not full council meetings.)

Nonetheless, the man subsequently sent a letter alerting Council President Peter Steinbrueck that he planned to be at the March 31 full council meeting. At that meeting, as the man waited, Steinbrueck called for a vote to suspend council rules and allow the man to take the mic. The vote failed.

As he sat in the front row during the meeting, the man was monitored by security. The guards later learned that the man had delivered a bouquet of flowers to the council prior to the meeting. NANCY DREW

Redesigning the P-I

A plan to comprehensively revamp the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and make the paper more appealing to youngsters ["Post-Intelligent Design," Sandeep Kaushik, Nov 14, 2002]--code-named Project Tornado--has picked up speed.

P-I sources report that the paper is investing heavily in Project Tornado, taking staffers off daily assignments. Several weeks ago one P-I reporter made the rounds of city hall offices to ask younger city staffers how the P-I could be more relevant to political junkies. He was also interested in finding ways to make the daily more like a certain alternative weekly, council sources report. SANDEEP KAUSHIK

P-I, Times: Waiting for a Pulitzer

As we went to press on April 1, an unconfirmed list of Pulitzer Prize finalists leaked to industry publication Editor & Publisher included both the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Times is said to have two finalists--its coverage of the D.C. sniper, and its "Terrorist Within" investigation. P-I editorial cartoonist David Horsey, a winner in 1999, is again on the list. SANDEEP KAUSHIK

Gaping in West Seattle

West Seattle's Big Kmart on Delridge Way Southwest will soon close, leaving a prominent gap in the neighborhood. "Most people orient themselves from the Kmart," explains Jim Diers, executive director of the Delridge Neighborhood Development Association.

So Diers is inviting residents to an April 30 meeting to discuss the site's fate. Diers isn't sure if Kmart's landlord is open to community suggestions, but hopes that if the neighbors unite on an idea ("There's no supermarket on Delridge," Diers offers), they'll have some influence. AMY JENNIGES