Finally. Finally we have a decision on what will be built to replace Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct. The 1953 monstrosity will be replaced with a tunnel. According to the Seattle P-I and other sources, the government entities who are involved with the decision will be announcing on Tuesday that they are choosing a 4-lane tunnel [...]
A couple of weeks ago, there was an unusually large amount of snow on the ground all over Cascadia. That in itself is not news. We were all inconvenienced, but we all collectively made it through without too much damage. A few weeks later, we are all doing just fine and the big accumulation of [...]
Thanks to a recent Seattle P-I article, we now have some facts and figures on the roadblocks being set up by the US Border Patrol on Washington State highways and at ferry terminals. From the beginning, the justification made by the Border Patrol for using this technique of stopping everyone to make them prove their [...]
I have been a user and a fan of the Washington State Ferries my entire life. Over the years, I have used them for transportation around Washington, as a Commuter, and at the beginning and ending of vacations. It all has depended upon what part of Cascadia I have been living in at any given [...]
I follow closely the political action going on in the northern part of Cascadia, in Washington State. While I’m not going to go too far in depth into the races and questions on the ballot, there are a few that I would like to comment on before Election day. Chris Gregoire for Governor. Even if [...]
Tuesday, November 4 is Election Day nationwide. However, in Washington and Oregon, you will probably want to act ahead of time to make sure your vote counts. In Oregon, your Vote-By-Mail ballot must be returned to your County Elections Office by 8:00 PM on Election Day. You may put it in the mail, but it [...]
I have been a bit negligent lately in posting to the blog, as I have been away recently traveling to an assortment of places in Cascadia, for an assortment of reasons. I am now back at my computer, and after a stint of catching up with work, I have a moment to reflect on some [...]
Sometimes I wonder whether we have the right to call ourselves a civilized society. We are presented this Sunday with an article from the Everett Herald that proves just how messed up we are at a number of levels. The article, “School Lunch Issue Reveals a Sorrier Problem”, reveals a number of issues about ourselves [...]
There are a number of ballot initiatives and ballot measures in both Washington and Oregon every year that are clearly the work of a few folks who are in the business of making up and presenting controversial measures for fun and profit. Initiative 985 is another of those disgusting works, this one presented by serial [...]
At first blush, I couldn’t find anything wrong with the new way of doing primary elections in Washington State. To those who are yet uninformed, the “top two” system has all of the candidates running in the same election pool. Each voter will receive a ballot with all of the candidates names listed and will [...]
