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@1, user ID checks out.

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Sort of a different subject but is "SLOG" an acronym and if so, what does it mean?

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I took the NYC subway yesterday for about 15 stops. Not a single cop at any station.

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I like the Wallingford idea.

5

I thought Jewish bagels were the best.

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well, since i've said that pike place is fine the way it is, i'll admit i didn't see a vehicular homicide on easter sunday coming.

i'd like to learn the particulars of how it happened.

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oh, she wasn't killed. thank the risen christ.

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@3: Stranger Blog.

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@10- Last I checked Harrell as not been Mayor since 2013. Is he responsible for a trend which started before he took office?

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"Affordable housing, managed by a public entity, where nobody pays more than 30% of their income in rent?"

This initiative would create a new public entity to build market-rate housing for persons making $97,000 annually. There is no funding mechanism.

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@3 @11 Which is short for Stranger Web Log, which is short for Stranger World Wide Web Internet Thingie Log.

@10 The ST isn't quite Fox News. They're liberal on things that don't cost them any money, like LGBTQ and abortion rights. Otherwise the analogy is pretty close to the mark.

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@13: They probably have in mind a property tax levy, just afraid to say it.

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Who do y'all think had the bigger erection over the combo of vehicular violence and pike place , Matt or Charles?

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@16 That ST comments section, though! Definitely the local equivalent of the Carlson/Hannity/Ingraham white supremacist greek chorus, if not worse. (I'll allow that it has gotten marginally less incendiary since they restricted comments to subscribers but it's still pretty awful.)

I remember the first time I visited Pike Place Market, knowing nothing of its history, I was gobsmacked that people were allowed to drive through it. That road is narrower than Barbara Bailey Way, and no one to my knowledge is advocating that the Capitol Hill Farmer's Market should be open to automobile traffic (though in this car-crazy city it wouldn't surprise me).

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always love it when ā€œthe eastside eliteā€ gets thrown around. you guys ever heard of this dude Dan Savage? how much do you think his home is worth? a shit ton more than mine, for sure. but at least Iā€™m ā€œeliteā€.

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If the SPD writeup of the car-car-pedestrian-hammer incident is to be believed, it was a fight between two people on foot, who then took it to their cars, bumping each other back and forth, then escalated further to hammer throwing vs. both cars. Sure, I know SPD has their own credibility issues, but since they didn't shoot anyone or beat them up in this incident, they're maybe a little more believable.

I'd love a pedestrian-only road in front of Pike Place outside of delivery truck hours in the morning and evening, but I don't think this incident is the poster child.

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@22: thanks boatgeek.

I was looking for more info and I found this incident that i half-remembered from 2015, which is also not market-specific:

The driver, described as an elderly man, told officers his foot got stuck between the gas and the brake of the rental car. He struck the pedestrian along with three cars, and one of those hit another car.
Witnesses tended to corroborate the driver's statement that he was trying to stop the car.
"Its brake lights were on, but it wasn't stopping," said witness Rob Young. "It looked like he was trying to stop."
The driver was released from the scene, said Officer Lauren Lovanhill of the Seattle police. She said it's unclear whether he was cited. She said the driver was not impaired.

https://komonews.com/news/local/1-hurt-as-car-careens-wildly-through-streets-of-pike-place-market-11-21-2015#:~:text=SEATTLE%20%2D%20A%20pleasant%20morning%20at,horror%2C%20police%20and%20witnesses%20said.

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I'm sure anything an employer does that isn't rolling out a red carpet to organizers would qualify as union busting in these pages however that video is a really poor example. Look you can organize but you also have to follow the rules of the workplace. You can't just put up posters all over the place. That could have been a lost kitten poster and I'm pretty certain they still would have pulled it off the front door. This seems like it was a PR stunt. They put those flyers on the door knowing they would be taken down and then claim union busting. This is the kind of moronic shit that makes these activists just seem like clowns rather than people are serious about organizing.

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@21:

Well, when you write a few New York Times best-selling books and win a PEN Award, maybe you too can own a house as nice as Dan's. But, you'll never get there by sitting on your lazy ass scribbling crabby "poor, poor Eastside me" comments here...

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@18
Matt, since thereā€™s no obvious tie-in with capitalism. Now if one of the cars had been a rental or Uber driver, then Iā€™d go with Charles.

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Why is Mike McSchwinn making comments? Doesn't he have the Sierra Club to suck up to?

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If you are killed on Easter weekend, are you back in action by Monday?

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@35: although, if there were no motor vehicles allowed, there wouldn't have been a road rage incident.

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/man-assaulted-with-hammer-woman-hit-with-car-pike-place-market-road-rage-incident/TXCYOTHTDZGLZII2NLKH2KJFLM/

maybe just ban men from the market instead?

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Matt - you know I like your writing, but the contradictions today were too much for me.

It's great that the guy cuts hair for homeless people, but give me his Venmo, not his Amazon Wishlist which you just lambasted for union busting. Also - again, I love Kids in the Hall, but it's on Amazon Prime. Until we actually stop buying shit from Amazon, we are supporting their union busting tactics.

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@31 - such a stickler for the rules!

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I can't imagine driving---much less walking---through Seattle anymore.
I remember when it was safe to walk through Pike Place Market when we
lived in Ballard. Norm Rice was 49th Mayor of Seattle then (1990-1997).
I remember when it was safe to walk through the vicinity of 3rd and Pine, and the Greyhound bus terminal on 8th and Stewart, like the King Street Amtrak station, was a decent hub of public transportation. I know violent crime is up everywhere, not just in Seattle, but WTF!

@39 PrincessAngeline#2 for the WIN!!! I KNEW Bezos' overblown space dildo was as impotent as he is.

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I drove through Pike Place Market several years ago, and immediately after turning off First Avenue thought "That was fucking stoopid!". Aside from delivery hours cars should be banned from the market. This does not even seem like a hard question.


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