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News in review: There's more than one way to recap the week that was.
 | JULY 06, 2005 | |
Pies under scrutiny
P-I food editor Hsiao-Ching Chou reports that Whole Foods Market is cracking down on the moldy pie problem she noted last week. However, e-mail she received from readers suggested that the problem "was not exclusive to the Roosevelt store [in north Seattle] and it was potentially systemwide."
| JUNE 20, 2005 | |
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| MAY 28, 2005 | |
No more free parking
One of the nicer amenities about shopping downtown will go away next Wednesday when the Pike Place Market stops offering free one-hour parking.
| MAY 25, 2005 | |
Guerilla artist dies
Guerilla performance artist Jason Sprinkle, who gained notoriety in Seattle during the 1990s, died May 16 after being hit by a freight train.
Sprinkle was part of the merry band that memorably tied a giant ball and chain around the ankle of Hammering Man in 1993, much to the public's amusement.
The public -- and the authorities -- wasn't amused, however, by his last big public splash: a stunt that inadvertently triggered a terrorist bomb scare in downtown Seattle three years later. (Registered SeattlePI.com users can read all about it in our archives.)
P-I art critic Regina Hackett recounts the highlights of his career and the difficult years afterward in an obituary today:
In the 1990s, Sprinkle was Seattle's most famous guerrilla performance artist, and some of that fame he didn't want. Although his first foray was almost universally celebrated, his last caused a public panic and landed him in jail on terrorism-related charges.
After he got out (charges reduced to a shadow of themselves and the sentence a year's probation plus the 30 days served), he was a changed man ...
| MAY 22, 2005 | |
| MAY 21, 2005 | |
Art tax followup
Following up on yesterday's stories about uncollected taxes on high-priced works of art, the P-I reports today that state officials now say they're looking into the matter.
| MAY 20, 2005 | |
Uncollected taxes
Wealthy art collectors owe the state millions of dollars in use taxes but the Department of Revenue is reluctant to crack down on them to collect it, P-I art critic Regina Hackett reports today.
| MAY 18, 2005 | |
Remembering May 18, 1980
Where were you the morning that Mount St. Helens erupted 25 years ago today? What were you doing when you heard the news -- or witnessed it yourself?
We're inviting readers to post their memories and we're getting some very interesting, very detailed stories. Please take a look -- and add your own.
| MAY 15, 2005 | |
Top clicks, top picks
As usual, here are the most popular stories on SeattlePI.com for the past week, May 8-15, 2005:
Top clicks (most read articles):
- Pregnant woman 'Tasered' by police is convicted
- U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens
- It's not a Dumpster -- it's a lifeline
- Woman awarded $45,000 in cat death
- Military base closures may be less than feared, but they'll sting
- Seahawks Notebook: This time Ruskell runs into Bucs wall
- Xbox 360: Hard core, but aiming for more
- The boom is coming back at Boeing
- Getting There: Tailgater pushes driver to seek solution to scary practice
- Sonics endure lopsided beating, losses of Allen and Radmanovic
- Manhunt ends in 70-year-old suspect's suicide
Top picks (most e-mailed articles):
- U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens
- Pregnant woman 'Tasered' by police is convicted
- Woman awarded $45,000 in cat death
- Detained Kenyan insists she had abortion
- Whole Foods expanding to Interbay
- In The Northwest: In B.C., ruling party's 'gold' looks a lot like poop
- The boom is coming back at Boeing
- Go 2 Guy: 'The big ugly secret' of WSU's stadium
- It's not a Dumpster -- it's a lifeline
- 'Homeshoring' means that call center might be in someone's bedroom
| MAY 09, 2005 | |
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| MARCH 30, 2005 | |
By any other name
As Todd Bishop noted, the clunky monikers for the Media Player-less versions of Windows that Microsoft is required to sell in Europe -- "Windows XP Home Edition N" and "Windows XP Professional Edition N" -- sound "like something a regulator would come up with."
Actually, they were picked by the European Commission after it rejected a short list of 10 alternatives submitted by the company. After seeing that list, which includes the even clunkier "Windows XP not incorporating Windows Media Player" and mystifying labels like "Windows OS/C," I have to say that I'm with the bureaucrats on this one.
| MARCH 27, 2005 | |
| MARCH 23, 2005 | |
Another right-to-life case
The case of Terri Schiavo is dominating the headlines but, as P-I military reporter Mike Barber notes, "right to life" issues are at the core of another case quietly making its way through the federal court system:
When she learned that she was carrying a baby with almost no brain and no chance of survival, a devastated young Navy wife from Everett pleaded with a federal court in Seattle to force her military medical program to pay for an abortion. ...
She won her case and had the abortion. But more than two years later, the federal government continues to fight her, trying to get the woman and her sailor husband to pay back the $3,000 the procedure cost and trying to cast in stone a ban on government-funded abortions.
The case of Jane Doe. v. the United States will be argued before a federal appeals court next month. Like the Terri Schiavo case in Florida, involving a severely brain-damaged adult, this matter involves questions of what is human life, when can family decide to end it and how far can the government go to block that decision.
On a related note, D.C. correspondent Charles Pope talks to Rep. Dave Reichert, R-8th District, about why he voted against the bill that moved Schiavo's case to federal court. Reichert was one of only five Republicans who cast "no" votes. As the former King County sheriff puts it: "Why are we, Congress, getting involved in this case? It didn't make sense to me."
| MARCH 22, 2005 | |
Disaster looming?
Today, P-I investigative reporter Eric Nalder begins a four-part, in-depth special report looking at how safety measures enacted after the devastating Exxon Valdez oil spill "are being evaded and undermined."
The main story in the first installment details how an oil spill in the middle of the Pacific Ocean went unreported for four months until a whistle-blower told the Coast Guard. Was there a cover-up? Depends on whom you ask ...
| MARCH 14, 2005 | |
| MARCH 07, 2005 | |
Boeing's latest scandal
Our business department offers up a couple of interesting follow-up angles on the news of Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher's abrupt resignation after the company's board of directors learned that he'd had an affair with another executive:
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| DECEMBER 28, 2004 | |
Salon on 2004 in tech
"When technology became cool again", Salon.com's roundup of 2004's most important technology stories, also provides some cool-headed analysis for some of the headline hype.
For example, in summarizing the impact that blogging had on the national elections, Farhad Manjoo points out that Howard Dean and other candidates who relied heavily on blog financing lost despite all the talk of revolutionizing politics: "Was the entire online political effort something of an illusion -- a mere echo chamber of blue-state optimism, all sound and fury, signifying nothing? Alas, it sure seems that way now. "
Other topics covered include the coming of age of the wireless Internet, the Kyoto Protocol, e-voting security, Firefox reigniting the browser wars, the ongoing campaign against file sharing, California's decision to fund stem-cell research, outsourcing, a reality check for hydrogen-fueled cars, and the growing Big Brother potential of Google.
Of the latter, Andrew Leonard writes:
When any individual or company becomes that omnipresent and all-knowing, there's usually justification for wariness. At Salon we've been pulling for Google since the very earliest days, because we have consistently found the company's offerings incredibly useful and because we believe that the executives of Google are sincere when they say they want to do the right thing. But if a different crew were running the Google ship, and economic circumstances began to force their hand, it's chilling to think of just how much information Google knows about us. It knows what we search for, whom we e-mail, who our friends are, and soon, what books we like to read. That's quite a dossier, and it's scary.
| DECEMBER 27, 2004 | |
| DECEMBER 23, 2004 | |
Who's our governor?
The interminable saga of the 2004 governor's race continues with no real end in sight, but with a likely legacy of future election reform.
Seattle Weekly's Rick Anderson likely voiced the thoughts of many when he wrote:
The thin margin separating mansion hopefuls Christine Gregoire and Dino Rossi has exposed us to the sausage-making reality of vote inexactitude, layered with the hypocrisy of both candidates (every vote counts unless it was cast for the other candidate) and the rhetoric of state party officials .... As it is, voters will forever wonder who really was elected. Maybe we're better off with the position vacant. No one has earned it, and we could use the savings to pay for election reform that puts deserving candidates in office. Can that be retroactive?
On a related note, this interesting chart from today's P-I plots the ups and downs of the recount tallies. (A related table details the totals, gains and losses in each of Washington's 39 counties.)
| DECEMBER 22, 2004 | |
2004 in blogging
Time magazine's 10 Things We Learned About Blogs is a great capsule overview of 2004's highlights in the growth of blogging and its impact in the offline world.
| DECEMBER 20, 2004 | |
Disaster yields windfall
In the Silver Lining Department, the oil spill caused by a wrecked freighter off the Aleutians has proven a financial windfall for businesses around Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
| DECEMBER 13, 2004 | |
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| DECEMBER 03, 2004 | |
Walking can kill you
Walking remains the most dangerous mode of transportation per mile in the nation, according to the Mean Streets 2004 report by the Environmental Working Group and the Surface Transportation Policy Project, beating out public transit, driving and flying.
The Seattle-Tacoma-Bremerton ranked 40th on the list of 50 most dangerous metropolitan areas in the country when it comes to pedestrian deaths. Although pedestrian deaths declined nationwide from 1994 to 2003, the number in this region actually went up last year, rising to 55 from 45 in 2002. Ten of last year's fatalities were in Seattle, where eight pedestrians have been killed so far this year.
Unfortunately, traffic around here will only keep getting worse, according to a new report released by Sound Transit.
| NOVEMBER 29, 2004 | |
| NOVEMBER 21, 2004 | |
Past vs. future
The story of an 85-year-old shipyard that stands in the way of Seattle's planned monorail line is yet another account of the ongoing conflict between the city's maritime past and its high-tech future:
Attempts have been made to find a way for the monorail line and the shipyard to coexist, but without mutually acceptable results so far. The old and new ways are clashing at the water's edge, with the shipyard the last business with which the monorail must come to terms. ...
| NOVEMBER 14, 2004 | |
| NOVEMBER 07, 2004 | |
Top clicks, top picks
Here's the roundup of the stories that caught SeattlePI.com readers' fancy from Nov. 1-7, 2004. There was a lot more overlap than usual this time out.
Top clicks (most read articles)
- Gilbertson ousted as UW coach
- Hundreds turn out to protest Bush's re-election
- Case for water on Mars is growing stronger
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