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news: 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! 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. ... 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 ... 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... 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 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.... 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... 6:15 a.m: Finally, after 4 days of smooth commutes, we have a bad one.
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. |