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| Washington legislators who want to ban drivers from making cell phone calls at the wheel are delighted that New York managed to pass a similar law. Hurry to Olympia and assert your right to drive carelessly. | The former directors of drugstore.com are under investigation for stock manipulation during the fallen company’s initial stock offering. At least this would prove somebody made a buck off this Internet dud. |
| State workers have declared victory and called off their 10-week pseudostrike. It’s comforting to know that a successful labor action can be waged entirely through press releases. | Lynnwood is ruing the day it nixed a fiberglass chicken art project similar to the Seattle promotion that spawned herds of sidewalk pigs. Doubters were afraid to damage the city’s reputation—as a strip mall with streets. |
| Viaduct-haters were heartened by a call by state engineers to replace the roadway. Hey, folks, tell us that one again about how we can just demolish the Viaduct and let the traffic cruise around downtown. | Richard McIver, the light rail-backing Seattle City Council incumbent, now has two monorail-loving opponents: E. Heath Merriwether and Grant Cogswell. If they could figure out a way to get the train itself on the ballot, McIver might be worried. |
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