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August 2007My Friday assignment was "Bumbershoot." The annual music, art, theater, film, etcetera, etcetera festival fires up on Saturday and runs through Labor Day. ...Listening to the police tape of Senator Larry Craig’s interrogation after his arrest in a Minneapolis airport men’s room offers a fascinating bit of drama. It seems pleading guilty to a crime was the idea of Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport Police Sergeant David Karsnia. Karsnia: You can plead guilty, there'll be a fine, you don't have to explain anything. You pay the fine, you'll be let go ... done! Or you could plead no... I just met a seasoned truck driver, and it's a good thing he is seasoned!
And what is it about synchronized swimming that addles my brain and makes me do foolish and potentially embarassing stuff?
In a perfect world Darla Varrenti would be seeing her son Nick off to college today. Varrenti's son Nick died of a cardiac arrest 3 years ago at the age of 16. There are days when I really love my job. Tuesday was one of those days. But I know the next time I revisit the pictures we took, it will be one of those times when I don't love my job...when somebody is seriously injured, or dies on Mt. Rainier. ... Have you've ever taken a look at the language in our state's law banning smoking in public places? Clearly the spirit of the law is to protect patrons and employees of public establishments from being subject to the ills of second-hand smoke. ...Have you've ever taken a look at the language in our state's law banning smoking in public places? Clearly the spirit of the law is to protect patrons and employees of public establishments from being subject to the ills of second-hand smoke. ...This past weekend (August 23-25, 2007) I had to pinch myself. I was in balmy Honolulu, talking to the likes of Senator Daniel Inouye (D) Hawaii; Hawaii’s Governor; Honolulu’s Mayor; Hawaii’s former Governor and a Member of Japan’s Parliament. I must be dreaming. Yet these politically powerful folks wanted to be with me and nearly 40 other young Americans of Japanese descent. Why? They believe Japanese Americans can play an important ... Hospitals are private places. They should be. Many of us wouldn't want our medical history out there for public consumption. But the privacy that shrouds hospital operations can also keep some unseemly activity in the dark. That's what some employees say has been happening at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. For a couple of year... Denis Watson seemed a bit stunned and truly humbled. He was standing on the 18th green at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge, having just won the Boeing Classic Champions Tour event in a wild, record-setting playoff finish. He had picked up a gorgeous crystal trophy and a nice little winner's check for $240,000. And a key to the city of Snoqualmie, and that seemed to please him tremendously. He was genuinely touched by the gesture. Two local college students, who tackled and restrained a violent woman on a Horizon Air flight last weekend, say they were doing "their duty" as passengers of the flight. They said in this day and age it's not just a courageous act of heroism -- it's what any passenger should do in that situation. I wonder in this post 9-11 world, if all passengers think this way -- that we all have a responsibility when we get on board an airplane to... How many times have you wanted to disobey speeding laws and just mash that gas pedal and fly down the highway? Just rolling along on my normal scattershot approach to pre-Olympic or pre-travel research. Yes, spending time with family and friends was first and foremost in the minds of the returning air crew from the "Yellow Jackets" squadron at Whidbey, but military life overseas also brings with it other desires. Among the first stops for one particular pilot: Taco Bell. Welcome home! ...With the recent construction on the I-5 corridor putting transportation at the forefront of people's minds, this was certainly an opportune time for a visual demonstration of how transit choices impact our roads. The Seattle Department of Transportation took pictures (see video) of what 200 commuters look like on city streets depending... Okay, The Crunch is over, and I think I’ve had enough of talking about traffic volumes, paving, and joint replacement. I feel I’ve talked about it over and over, and there isn't much left to say. But they may want to work on their signage, including one in particular. ...A monster was eating away at Tom Ingram. It was devouring his body from the inside out. Yet Ingram refused to concede defeat to his many cancerous tumors. He was determined to fulfill what turned out to be his dying wish. ...Do you really care what your barista is wearing? I don't. I love coffee. Good coffee. Personally, I can't imagine going to a coffee stand because the baristas wear skimpy or provocative outfits. Maybe if they sold the best coffee in Western Washington I would. On the other hand, if my son were in the back seat, I can tell you where I wouldn't go. ...Do you really care what your barista is wearing? I don't. I love coffee. Good coffee. Personally, I can't imagine going to a coffee stand because the baristas wear skimpy or provocative outfits. Maybe if they sold the best coffee in Western Washington I would. On the other hand, if my son were in the back seat, I can tell you where I wouldn't go. ...Douglas Lee Merino is a man of many hats. And most of them were bought with tax dollars. Douglas Lee Merino is a man of many hats. And most of them were bought with tax dollars. Bad things sometimes happen to good people. But good people can sometimes make decisions about what to do about it. Darin and Derek Wade refused to believe that their beloved 63-year-old father James Wade tripped, fell, and later died. Instead, they went on a quest for the truth. The Wade brothers went door-to-door in the Ballard area where their father was found lying in the street last month. What they learned appears to confirm ... A lot of us may be asking, where were the huge backups? You know the ones the state predicted we could see during the I-5 crunch. Did they cry wolf? Not so, says one of the top WSDOT managers in our region. Russ East says people did their part by staying off of the Interstate, and that is why we never felt the real pain we could have experienced. Roughly 40 percent of the average traffic found alternate routes -- the state was shooting for 50.... It's been in the news for a while: our state's prisons are so overcrowded the Department of Corrections is forced to send inmates to local jails and even out of state. So I was surprised to learn that the new Intensive Management Unit at Monroe is sitting empty. The new prison facility was finished in March 2006 and can house 200 inmates. It was used temporarily to house some offenders while another unit of the Monroe Correctional Com... My cat, Dalmatian, is so fat he’s been mistaken for a soccer ball. Even so, I was surprised at how quickly he was going through his weight-control pet food. Until one night when our family was watching a movie and we heard a loud slurping noise from the water dish. We turned around to find a black-and-white critter of another kind finishing off Dalmatian’s dinner. A raccoon had come in through the dog door (Dalmatian is too fat to fit thr... When the Olympics roll around, whether they're in Sydney or Salt Lake or Greece or Italy or China, we like to stay relentlessly local in our news coverage. In our news slots, outside of the presentation of the actual sports events provided by NBC Sports, we devote most of our Olympic time and energy to the kids next door who grew up and landed on the biggest sports-stage of them all. We're a year out from the Olympics and I am already getting antsy and fired up about going. To China! How wild is that? I have never been there and I expect it will be a strange and wonderful experience. I like the strange and wonderful and every Olympics is that way of course, but to have the craziness and energy and buzz of the Games set in a place like China is ging to make it extra special. And weird, frankly. Extra strange and extra wonde... 6:15 a.m: Finally, after 4 days of smooth commutes, we have a bad one. Where did everyone go? Today, the South Bureau (Photographer Tom Tedford and myself) got up early...really early. Like before the crack of dawn early. Today, the South Bureau (Photographer Tom Tedford and myself) got up early...really early. Like before the crack of dawn early. Today, the South Bureau (Photographer Tom Tedford and myself) got up early...really early. Like before the crack of dawn early. Today, the South Bureau (Photographer Tom Tedford and myself) got up early...really early. Like before the crack of dawn early.
On Friday July 27th I returned to the station after shooting three different stories for the day when I noticed on one of the monitors in the newsroom an image that caught my attention. It was from KTVK. I recognized the logo in the corner of the screen…I asked around "what’s going on in Phoenix?" Feeling peeved about all the I-5 northbound road closures planned for August? We hear you. It's anybody's guess how the 19-days of round-the-clock lane closures will play out. Use this space to vent about traffic, exchange driving tips or share stories from your commute. ...Many drivers woke up on Thursday morning, probably wondering could a collapse, like the one we saw in Minneapolis happen here? It's a scary thing to think about. The Seattle area, in particular, is full of bridges. |