The Stranger is 10: Just surfed over to The Stranger and saw that they are now ten years old. When I first moved to Seattle in September of 1991, there were these odd little stickers all over the U-District, showing a bald guy looking off into the distance. "The Stranger is coming." It produced quite a bit of anticipation. Ten years later, The Stranger has become by far the best Seattle newspaper, being much more thorough than the Times or the P-I, and much more open about its biases than the Weekly.
Speaking of The Stranger: Pat Kearney has a good review of SB 6464 in the latest issue. This bill is needed to give Seattle voters the authority to fund the monorail, but gives the city council power to amend the monorail plan once passed by the voters. This is a bad idea: the council has tried before to kill the monorail and should not be allowed another chance to interfere. If the ETC can sell the idea to the voters, they should be allowed to build the monorail, and having council oversight will just make the process that more expensive. Write to Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles about the issue. Not only is she in the state senate, but was recently appointed to the monorail board, too.