Is there a single "cafe street" in Seattle that doesn't also allow cars? Didn't think so.

I mean, in 1982 Helen Hunt was 19, so it's not that much of a reach.

“There’s been a landslide down by Delridge,“ tell me you don’t know anything about West Seattle geography without telling me you don’t know anything about West Seattle geography

4 I was going to say the same thing, although technically Highland Park Way does go up into the Delridge neighborhood but is near Delridge Way the same as I-5 is near 1st Ave. South.

-- By 3-to-1 margin, a @nwprogressive poll finds Washington voters overwhelmingly want a transportation package that prioritizes transit, walk/bike, climate, and fish passage, not highway expansion.

Hah - I'm sure that survey doesn't have any inherent bias cooked into it?!?!

@4, @5 — I’m just so happy The Stranger has acknowledged the existence of West Seattle that tears of joy are still streaming down my face. Once I recover, I’m going to try to grasp the news value the of a 40 year-old TV promo.

Simon Sefzik is the new Doug Ericksen.

This is excellent news. Sefzik is less electable than the other two being considered, improving the odds for Sharon Shewmake (current 42nd state Rep) to win in the next general.

@6 You could always click a couple links and find the details yourself.

But loading it down with howevers, and/or grooming the target demographic until it produces results more aligned with your prefs, that's not bias?

@6 and 8:

“While some may feel the poll cast a wide net by combining multiple alternatives to highway expansion in a single answer, NPI defended its approach.”

These ‘urbanists’ can’t ever present honest data.

Did the county choose the 22 yr old apparatchik because he's the least qualified and looniest? I hadn't thought about possible defensive applications of our weird tradition of replacing dead reps with members of the same party.

It's the Golden Girls kitchen!

@ 10, Sefzik has zero experience, no qualifications, he’s obviously incompetent, and it’s not even clear that he’s resided in the state for the last four years, so naturally they’re gonna hand him a top job as a senator.

The inverted culture of right wing white men failing upwards strikes again.

@14 if that is their strategy its a pretty dumb one because a) they are screwing over their constituents in some lame attempt to game the political system and b) he'll most likely get a primary challenger on the Republican side anyway since he is a loon and there is a good chance he won't even make it through to the general.

@11:

No one has ever said that vaccinated people can't spread COVID, for the simple reason that they can still be exposed and have active virus in their systems, which can be transmitted to others. But vaccinated people have developed antibodies to fight off the infection (which is the entire purpose of the vaccine), which in turn results in vastly lower viral loads and therefore they are much less likely to suffer more than mild symptoms, and in most cases will not present any symptoms whatsoever. But, the viral load is never going to be reduced to absolute zero, so there's still some small risk of transmission; this is why people are being told to quarantine, even if they've been vaccinated, if they test positive or have been in close contact with someone who has. It's vital that EVERYONE who can gets vaccinated, so that if they DO contract the virus, regardless of from whom, they won't end up in the hospital with more serious, possibly life-threatening symptoms.

Just a reminder that Monday is MLK Jr Day, so all federal state and county parks are free admission.

Even if they don't want you to know that.

Protein structure prediction is HUGE. It would let us bypass years of work in figuring out what proteins actually look like & how they interact with each other. Traditional methods could take years to solve what a single protein looks like, let alone thousands of them. Probably still a way to go before we know how universal this is going to be but it's a really big advance.

And Wile E. Coyote with a box of Acme dynamite could get rid of that White Pass boulder in a heartbeat.

@20,

Figuring out what proteins look like & how they interact with each other sounds like a huge waste of time. Wouldn't we be much better off studying what amateur teens look like and how THEY interact with each other?

HEY-OOOOOOOHHH!!!

sorry.

@22 - there are a couple of things wrong with your slippery slope argument. First, the chance of being hospitalized, occupying resources needed by others, and needlessly endangering health care personnel is night and day different in vaxxed/unvaxxed people. The other bad lifestyle choices you cite have nowhere nearly as strong an effect.

Second, you can't begin to compare the burdens on the individual. Quitting smoking, getting sober, or losing that extra 60 pounds are all good ideas but they require major effort/lifestyle changes. Getting a couple (or even three) shots is a trivial burden.

Also, what is wrong with charging smokers, for example, higher insurance premiums? Maybe we just charge unvaccinated people an extra $500/month for their coverage or else exclude Covid treatment.

I don't know who the other contenders for the senate seat were but the Whatcom County Council is 4-3 leftish so they chose this clown for some reason...

@26 the other two under consideration were a member of the county council and a Bellingham police officer so the guy they selected was definitely not the best choice for representation since he is only 22 and has no experience. I really hope this isn't gamesmanship though as that would reflect very poorly on the council. They did say they wanted someone who would not oppose th governors vaccination mandates so we'll see how this kid responds to that. If this is part of some bigger strategy to flip the seat it is really dumb as I said previously because if he is as bad as he seems he will definitely have a contested primary.

@1: Post Alley

@20, You know, that boulder does look exactly like one of the boulders in the Roadrunner cartoons, the one that kept falling on Wile E's head every episode. I was wondering what it was up to these days, looks like no good. If it is the same boulder, the WSDOT is right to be cautious, we've seen what it can do.

@31: That's an alley, dummy.

@8a periwinkle: Agreed and seconded. I hope Sharon Shewmake wins, too. She's exponentially more qualified than any GOP candidate running. The easily MAGA-duped voters of the 42nd District also brought us gun-crazed RWNJ Jason Overstreet and ditzy Luanne Van Werven as well as the late Doug the Thug Ericksen and the global mistake of Donald Trump in 2016. I'd love to see the 42nd District turn a solid blue.

@10 HW3: GOP gross incompetence seems to run amok in the 42nd District. I'm also keeping my eyes on Tyler Byrd, of the Whatcom County Council.

@13 and @14 Original Andrew for the WIN!!! We'll see what happens with Simon Sefzik. He sounds exactly like Jason Overstreet. Yuck.

@18 Will in Seattle: Thank you for the reminder. Happy MLK, Jr. Day, everyone!

@20 dvs99: I dunno----Acme products have a long track record for being defective. I'm guessing either of two possibilities:
1. Any Acme dynamite used would explode in Wile E. Coyote's face, while the 12 foot boulder rolled over him. OR
2. If the Acme explosives actually did the job, flying debris from the blown up boulder in the form of smaller rocks would crash land on Wile E., still crushing him.

@32 MikeXW: Especially if WSDOT orders an Acme crane to hoist it down off that hill.
"HEADS UP!"

@20 and @32: I think I remember somewhere that The Roadrunner was the corporate CEO of Acme, Inc., Tempe, Arizona Branch.....

@31: Still has the ambiance, nit picker.

@35: Alleyways are roads "not designed for general travel." My point is that in the 30 years I've lived here, Seattle has never closed a street used by cars. In fact the city has done the opposite, dipstick.

@36 ok, but then why do we keep having these street road shutdowns one day a year for Neighborhood Block Party day?

... and the ones from Montlake to Magnolia along the nice coastal highway so we can walk and bike it ...

Oh, those never happened?

Hmm.