if grizz become common throughout the cascades, my partner simply won't go. it's only a slightly unreasonable fear. they can and have killed people - rarely, yes, but I cannot guarantee there is no danger.

there are already some up in NCNP - if they come back in and repopulate the range on their own (as the wolves are doing), so be it. I don't think we need to give them a leg up.

I believe you misread the tech housing article. It says "half a percent," not one and a half percent. I thought the math looked off.

I'm in favor of re-introducing the grizzly in most National Parks, starting with the District of Columbia.

All I want to know is, if we plan to reintroduce grizzlies, who is going to pay for it? The last thing we need is another property tax to tack onto our ever rising rents.

Aren't the tween years when girls are most vulnerable? When they get discouraged from math and science, lose their confidence, and start getting sexually harassed? So maybe go hang out with some tweens and encourage them and stop being a kid-hating cliché, Ms. B.?

Look out twelve year olds hanging out at the mall, Sydney Brownstone is coming after you next.

Probably an easier target than Shell, anyway.

For Every 1 Percent Increase in Tech Hiring, There's a 1.5 Percent Increase in Home Prices... "Over the past year, Redfin found that home prices in Seattle have increased 12.7 percent while technology hiring increased 21 percent"

I know the maths are hard, but my calculator says 12.7/21 = 0.6%.

I know Seattle people aren't used to the heat and love to whine about it, but seriously, 80 degrees is nothing. If you get out of the sun -- like, in the shade of a tree -- it's absolutely perfect.

For every 1.5% (actually closer to 1.6%) increase in tech hiring, there's a 1% increase in home prices. Way to exemplify a profession replete with mathematical ignorance.

Reducing the rising housing prices to "tech jobs" is ridiculously simplistic. As if there weren't plenty of other factors driving up the cost of real estate in US cities - e.g. extremely low interest rates that make real estate a more attractive place for international wealth to park itself on.

@11 The would require actual journalists to investigate things and talk to experts and stuff.

Just as important as the influx of tech workers to housing prices is the fact that nobody who lives here is selling. 2006 this ain't.

If we introduce grizzlies into south lake union would that offset the home price increases caused by tech workers?

@14 So, technically, we'd be introducing grizzles to "the Amazon".

Statistically speaking, adding more people to Seattle is far more dangerous than adding more grizzlies to the Cascades; you're in more danger of getting hit by a car than mauled by a bear.

Wrong color. It's black bear you need to look out for. There are more of them. Like 15x more than all of brown bears which include Grizzlies in N. America. Hence more attacks by black bears. Black bears are already here in Seattle. Last documented sighting was in 2009 in Discovery Park (good spot for cougar sighting as well) and running off into Ballard..... They are terrific swimmers, so yes bound to head toward Amazon soon towing Mike O'Brien in kayak (want that selfie).

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/…

@17: shit son that is not how you do statistics

I blame rent prices on the price soaring on good maple syrup. Clear correlation.

Better hire that GWH (great white hunter) with pith helmet on the 36. A bear has an astonishingly good nose for very dense people in highly dense places.