The Daily Weekly

Two Very Different Opinions on the Seattle Housing Market

2009-11-20 13:57:21

CNNMoney.com reports today that if you're in the market for a lifetime's worth of debt, Seattle is a great place to live. The Emerald City placed second behind only San Francisco in a list of cit...

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OMG! Jonas Brothers to Endorse Microsoft Xbox360!

2009-11-20 13:30:15

You know what? Let Apple have its annoying Justin Long and nerdy John Hodgman for those Mac versus PC commercials. Microsoft just upped the celebrity stakes by announcing that teen rockers the Jo...

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Local Hardcore Band 'Furious Styles' Uses Cop-Killing to Sell T-Shirts

2009-11-20 13:20:52

UPDATE: Another former band member disowns the shirt. Details after the jump. A big tip of the hat to SeattleCrime.com for what they accurately titled as today's classiest story. A local hardco...

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Sports Guy Bill Simmons Shocked to Find Love for the Sonics Can't Get Him Out of a Speeding Ticket

2009-11-20 12:33:16

Celebrities expect to be treated differently than non-celebrities. That's part of why they're famous. But it's one thing to expect favorable treatment. Bitching publicly about not getting it is q...

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Hybrid Vehicles to Become Even More Annoying on Seattle Streets

2009-11-20 11:23:21

As previously mentioned, our state contributed accident data to a recent federal traffic safety report that concluded that the Prius and other silent hybrid vehicles were striking a disproportiona...

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Tim Lincecum Wins Cy Young, Proves Voters Don't Mind Less Victories or Pot Arrests

2009-11-20 10:56:01

Former University of Washington pitcher and current San Francisco Giant Tim Lincecum won his second-straight National League Cy Young award yesterday. The hardware comes a couple days after Zach...

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Reardon Watch: Reardon to the Rescue

2009-11-20 10:41:16

Last weekend a carload of twenty-somethings took a 35 mph corner going 70 to 80. The car slid off the road, hit a tree, and killed two of the guys in the car. According to the Everett Herald, a ...

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New Documents, Complexity, Likely to Delay Trial of Bellevue Man, Peter Egner, as a Nazi War Criminal

2009-11-20 10:10:56

Whether or not Peter Egner of Belleuve is a war criminal will not be decided this year or next, it appears. Federal prosecutors and his attorneys this week asked the federal court to delay his pla...

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Pontiac Silverdome Sold for $583,000: Here's the House the New Owners Could Have Bought

2009-11-20 07:52:07

At an auction on Monday, the Pontiac Silverdome, the former home of the NFL's Detroit Lions, was sold to a Canadian developer for $583,000. Roughly half of what a New Jersey couple recently paid ...

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Teenage Drunk Driver Calls the Cops...on Herself

2009-11-20 06:56:58

It's not often you can say that a teenager who drank and got behind the wheel of a car made a smart move. But one 19-year-old Auburn teen may be the exception. The young lady's night began at a p...

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In The Race to Mouse-Click Their Way to a Charitable Payout, Eastside Moms Are Destroying Amputees

2009-11-20 06:05:59

Clicks are the new currency in an Internet economy. We all know that. But it's never been more true than in the case of a charitable promotion being run by Seattle Metropolitan Credit Union--one ...

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Comment of the Day: Decriminalizing Pot May Be Bad for Seattle Smokers, But it's Good for the State

2009-11-19 17:23:58

Reader Alison Holcomb responds to With Pete Holmes in Office, Decriminalizing Pot Could Actually Be a Drag for Seattle Smokers. The Drug Policy Director of the ACLU of Washington says that while ...

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Window Washer Survives Eight-Story Fall in Downtown Seattle

2009-11-19 14:44:29

Wonder no more about who might be Seattle's luckiest man, as a 34-year-old window washer who survived an eight-story fall this morning has claimed his rightful honor. Eyewitnesses at the Broadac...

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Seattle Blogs: Flying Just Got More Annoying, Thanks to Seat-Back Ads

2009-11-19 14:11:31

Your daily trip around the Seattle blogosphere. - Aerospace News reports that AirTran will now outfit all 138 of its Boeings with seat-back advertising. Will that provide enough money so they ca...

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University of Washington Study Holds Important Info for Herpes Sufferers--and Everyone Who Loves Them

2009-11-19 14:05:20

No doubt that most of the U.S.' estimated 45 million Herpes sufferers take the counsel of their doctors and use condoms during sex even between outbreaks. But for those who don't and instead ch...

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