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  • Blogs

    December 19, 2011

    Logging Market Being Gamed by Sneaky Canadians, U.S. Trade Officials Say

    ​What's the upside of a mountain-pine-beetle infestation? United States trade official say it's the opportunity to use the bugs as a way of undercutting American lumber prices.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Free Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream NOW

    ​Central District News reports that Seattle University students are serving liquid nitrogen ice cream for free in the Bannan Arboretum, just southwest of the main gate at 12 and Marion, today from 3:15 pm until it runs out. The nitrogen bubbles double the size of the batch, made with custard ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    Nitro-Shucked Oysters & Good Fish

    I don't have a lot of experience shucking--I find it awkward and a little dangerous to go jabbing a blade into an oyster's crevice.  So it's a good thing I can use liquid nitrogen to do the work instead.  Nitro-shucking, or cryoshucking, is the process of opening the shells of mollusks by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Ban Spray Paint, Stop Gang Activity? Not Likely

    ​"We have two Hispanic female gangs that are over-taking each other," Pigeon Point Neighborhood Council President Pete Spalding said at a meeting of the 34th District Democrats last night near the Fauntleroy ferry terminal. Spalding says that the two gangs are from somewhere else, but have bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2009

    Today Is National Boss Day!

    ​You don't get this kind of crucial information from your fancy Google Calendars or iPhones. Friday, Oct. 16 is National Boss Day, at least according to my old-school desk planner. (Thank you, MeadWestvaco Consumer & Office Products of Sidney, NY. And could we base a sitcom on your office?) We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2009

    Throwback Tuesdays, Pt. II: "Hands All Over" by Soundgarden"

    And just to cover the local angle in the spirit of Throwback Tuesdays, here's some old-school Soundgarden. Earnest environmental activism is great and all, and though the Big Blue Marble/Goddess imagery is a bit much, it's still awfully fun to watch these guys climb all over (get it?) the interior o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    A Slightly More Nuanced Take on Why the Bag Tax Failed

    ​I was opposed to the bag tax from the moment it passed the City Council, all the way until it got trampled at the polls Tuesday. I didn't oppose the measure because its megabucks chemical industry opponents dumped over a million dollars into the race, even though those megabucks chemical indu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    "New" Strategy to Save Forests is as Old as Some of the Trees

    The front page of the Seattle Times today trumpets a New Strategy to Save the Forest: Logging. In the story, reporter Lynda Mapes uncovers "a shift in thinking" among environmentalists, who "not long ago" would have opposed all tree-cutting as an affront to their principles. Now, however, they re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    My Friend John Madden Retires

    John Madden and I went to the same college, at different times, and played football there, on different teams. I also once covered the Oakland Raiders, and he wasn't the coach. Today, amazingly, he retired from NBC, which I watch! (For the record, I played in 1960 for the Grays Harbor College Choke ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2009

    Roll Over, Rachel

    Debunking global warming—at Rachel Carson Elementary.

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

    New Devices, New Food Labels, and Other Food News

    Debunking global warming—at Rachel Carson Elementary.

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Spotted Owls Rejoice: Big Timber is Hurting for Buyers

    Debunking global warming—at Rachel Carson Elementary.

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2007

    P.R. Industry: Last to Go Green?

    Debunking global warming—at Rachel Carson Elementary.

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2007

    Tap It, Don't Scrap It

    Debunking global warming—at Rachel Carson Elementary.

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    On the Tree Stump

    Money pours into the 5 million acre campaign for state public lands commissioner.

  • News

    May 21, 2003

    Lube That Chain Saw

    Bush is set to roll back protections under the Northwest Forest Plan.

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Chainsaw Politics

    Some environmentalists think the way to deal with Bush forest policy is to cut a deal that involves cutting a lot of trees.

  • News

    September 4, 2002

    Spotted Owls on the Outs

    Supposedly saved, biologists now count half as many on federal land.

  • News

    July 31, 2002

    Darth Doug

    Environmentalists take the commissioner of public lands to court.

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Who Said It?

    Environmentalists take the commissioner of public lands to court.

  • News

    July 4, 2001

    The coming war

    Environmentalists take the commissioner of public lands to court.

  • News

    October 11, 2000

    Rotten to the gills

    KIRO-TV offers viewers a salmon documentary that's bought and paid for by the timber industry.

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    Sierra clubbed

    Environmentalists break out their axes over a green tree-cutting scheme.

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    Tree-huggin' lumberjacks

    Environmentalists are embracing a new strategy for saving the forests: cut 'em themselves.

  • News

    April 12, 2000

    Mansion in the woods

    King County struggles to zone the millionaires out of the forest.

  • News

    September 15, 1999

    "Why aren't Geov Parrish and his friends sticking up for that single mom? What about her interests, her emotions, and her right to be able to purchase whatever she needs at the best price?"

    King County struggles to zone the millionaires out of the forest.

  • News

    August 18, 1999

    A bedtime story

    King County struggles to zone the millionaires out of the forest.

  • Arts

    August 18, 1999

    Oops

    How Weyerhaeuser's corporate campus subverts itself.

  • News

    July 28, 1999

    Freedom to clear-cut

    How Weyerhaeuser's corporate campus subverts itself.

  • News

    April 21, 1999

    Letters

    How Weyerhaeuser's corporate campus subverts itself.

  • News

    October 14, 1998

    Concurrency:

    The state and county square off

  • News

    July 29, 1998

    Bonding with developers

    How stealth corporate welfare gives Weyerhaeuser a windfall at Snoqualmie Ridge.

  • News

    July 8, 1998

    Who Killed the Timber Task Force?

    Weyerhaeuser has been an F.O.B. since 1980. Did that friendship involve the spiking of a timber theft investigation that might have embarassed both the northwest timber giant and the forest service?

  • News

    May 27, 1998

    Devil's bargain

    As owl and salmon protections fizzle, a desperate attempt is made to hammer out a statewide forest conservation plan.

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