Archive for the 'In The News' Category
Christmas trees removed at Sea-Tac
Sunday, December 10th, 2006Christmas trees removed at Sea-Tac (from Seattle PI) — *sigh*. Seriously? This is beyond lame.
Edit 12/12: Looks like they finally got some common sense. The Christmas Trees are back.
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Eden Prairie #10 on Best Places to Live
Monday, July 17th, 2006This took me by surprise… My hometown, Eden Prairie, is ranked #10 out of 100 for Best Places to live by CNNMoney.com. How cool is that?
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Tough to Cancel AOL
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Moving a House on Eastlake
Monday, June 5th, 2006This past Saturday night the last residental home on Eastlake Ave E was moved off of its lot, thru a parking lot, and onto a barge. The Seattle PI has a photo slideshow of the event as well as an article. So, in short, this is what is going on:
The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had [...]
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Schools and the Internet
Thursday, May 25th, 2006Recently, for some reason or another, schools, parents, and the media have found out about teenagers habits on line and are beginning to use their postings as leverage against them (see this MSNBC article: “District to monitor students’ MySpace pages”). Mainly, these issues revolve around one site, Myspace.com. This shouldn’t come as any surprise to [...]
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Camera Cops
Thursday, March 16th, 2006Today in the PI there’s an article about Seattle thinking about installing cameras at intersections to detect cars that run red lights. What’s funny, to me at least, is that in Minnesota they’ve had these cameras up for a little bit, but the ACLU (and some angry drivers) got involved and claimed that drivers were [...]
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Light It Up One Last Time
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005If you are a smoker, tonight is the last night of your free reign on smoking in public places. At 12:01 Thursday morning the Smoking Ban, which was passed by a 2:1 margin on November’s ballot will go into effect. This means, that you can no longer smoke in public places or 25 feet around [...]
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