Injured Birds

It's evidently pigeon-hunting season in downtown Seattle. The Stranger has received numerous tips and photos from downtown office workers about a number of pigeons found strutting around Westlake Center with four-inch blow darts through their heads.

Licenses are not required to exterminate pigeons. However, most downtown businesses implement humane pigeon deterrents such as nets and spikes.

No one has claimed responsibility for the pigeon puncturing—the parks department, animal control, and Fish and Wildlife all denied being involved—and no one appears to be looking for rogue pigeon hunters. SPD says they haven't received any calls about the injured birds. NANCY DREW

Intriguing Proposals

The city council is just starting the process of amending the city's comprehensive plan—the planning blueprint that guides the city's land-use policies. In one intriguing proposal, the city's Department of Planning and Development suggested that the city build a lid over I-5 linking downtown and Capitol Hill. The idea, according to a DPD spokesman, is "just a vision right now," with no specific structure, location, or price tag, although it ultimately could include a park or housing. ERICA C. BARNETT

Unhappy Editors

After just eight months, Emily White quit her job this week as arts and entertainment editor for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. On Monday, April 7, she sent an e-mail to friends and colleagues that began, "It is official, Emily can't work for corporations." Her departure was immediate. (White was the editor of The Stranger from July 1995 to February 1999.)

"My main problem was they had a—to me—irrational attachment to banker's hours. Like, you have to be here from 8 to 6, when actually much of a newspaper can be done remotely or at other hours, and I have a daughter. We'd be doing all these stories about how to be green and then be sitting in [rush hour] traffic all the time, which was really contradictory."

She adds that higher-ups didn't understand what she was trying to do with the arts and music coverage. "The breaking point was having to defend wanting to put [musician] Daniel Johnston on the cover of What's Happening," she says, referring to the P-I's arts guide. "I couldn't believe I had to defend that. So it's a generation gap, I think."

She's working on a novel and has a long-distance gig teaching grad students in North Carolina.

Calls to the P-I weren't returned by press time. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE