Washington: Seattle Times

On this post, I need your help.   Yesterday I watched the Q13 story and read the Seattle Times story on the newspaper's closing.  Neither mentioned any mistakes by the PI.  In particular, neither mentioned the way the newspaper has...

Yes, not exactly a newsflash, yet it finally makes the pages of the Seattle Times. No doubt we'll get an article focusing some new fangled thing called Twitter in a few months. Priceless moment in the article: In several weeks...

Jennifer Sullivan at the Seattle Times blogged on it yesterday.

That's when the House approve a bill.

I know the Community Corrections (aka 'parole') officers wanted broader authority to do random, unannounced searches of the offenders under their supervision, including their homes and apartments. But it looks as if the Legislature is going to approve such searches only when ex-cons show up at Department of Corrections reporting centers or before an offender gets into a CCOs vehicle.

Unless, of course, a more severe earthquake knocks it down, along with several hundred cars and trucks.

The following story from The Associated Press prompted me to repost what I wrote a couple weeks ago about the big gamble state, Seattle and King County leaders are taking on the Alaskan Way Viaduct staying upright for another 7 years or so.

A 4.5 magnitude quake that rattled the Puget Sound region on Jan. 30 caused no damage to Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct.

But new sensors on the elevated highway showed the top deck shook 10 times harder than nearby ground.

The head of the University of Washington Seismology Lab, John Vidale (vih'-DOLL'-eh), told The Seattle Times the measurements confirm the structure and the fill dirt it's built on amplify earthquakes.