So you probably don't get no posting, capisci? No tears. Here, enjoy these SEXY SEATTLE pictures.
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Spend money at the Northwest Women's Law Center Auction
NWLC is an Uptown-based nonprofit that provides legal services, lobbies and takes on high profile litigation on various issues important to women. Its annual fundraising dinner and auction is taking place on October 15 at the Grand Hyatt. Give the Law Center a call at (206) 682-9552 if you want to go or have something to donate to the auction. In the last couple of years, the Center and cooperating attorneys have represented a nonbiological lesbian mom trying to get the right to see her kids after she and her partner split up and a military wife who was denied a covered abortion by the military even though the child was developing without a brain. It's good work and underfunded - but most importantly, the auction is a fun way to get involved.
-- K
Tags: uptown, seattle, northwestwomen'slawcenter, charity, auction
-- K
Tags: uptown, seattle, northwestwomen'slawcenter, charity, auction
Dendreon still curing cancer
Our friendly neighborhood cancer curer, Dendreon (love the light blue paint, hate the brick color), is applying for FDA approval to start marketing its prostate cancer drug, "Provenge". According to the Puget Sound Business Journal (you gotsta register!), a study found that substantially more patients treated with Provenge were alive three years after receiving the treatment than a group that received a placebo. The treatment is apparently safe and causes few side effects. Is there a downside here? Keep at it Dendreonites!
--K
Tags: uptown, seattle, dendreon, cancer
--K
Tags: uptown, seattle, dendreon, cancer
Ignore the Seattle Times, there is a monorail plan
Despite what the SeaTimes would have you think (they don't even get a link for being Mr. and Mrs. Liar-pants), monorail powers-that-be do have a plan and haven't missed some kind of dire deadline. Take a look at the details , surf around to view the conventional wisdom, and, if you like what you've read, let the city leaders know.
-- j
Tags: uptown, seattle, monorail
-- j
Tags: uptown, seattle, monorail
Uptown shopper: Cool blue jeans from Seattle
Usually the fashion and shopping stuff is K's department but she is already off to SF for the weekend (I'm right behind her, don't worry!). But I have to report a find. Is there a better way to strut around uptown than in your own pair of Seattle jeans? Certified Jeans is HQ'd right here in Sea-town. And they're on a mission:-snip-
* CERTIFIED jeans are made from 100% organic / transitional cotton grown without chemicals in the USA. Wear what you care - organic cotton jeans.
* CERTIFIED jeans are not sold in suburban malls.
* CERTIFIED jeans are made in the USA under US labor laws.
-un-snip-
One more thing to note - as far as fashionable denim goes these days, these are a bargain. We'd better not see you in Old Navy ever, ever again.
(Inspiration thanks to cryptogon.com though I'm not really sure why it exists. Yay for random blogs found via Google's new blog search)
-- j
Tags: uptown, seattle, shopping, jeans
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Big monorail meeting tonight: what can you do?
The good folks at 2045Seattle remind and inspire that tonight is the night for the current incarnation of Seattle's monorail plan:
--snip--
Tonight at 5:30, the new monorail director is going to answer the mayor’s deadline and present his plan for building our monorail. If you haven’t made it to a meeting before, this is a good one to attend as it’s important to show our support and desire for the monorail.
--un-snip--
Usually we like to entertain ourselves with a snarky cut or two but nothing like that here. We're as earnest as the shoeshine guy in front of the Frontier Room. If the monorail matters to you, you might want to hear things first hand and be there to represent your cause. Us? We eagerly await the details -- but we're reserving our cheering until we get a look at the spreadsheet.
-- j
Tags: seattle, uptown, monorail
--snip--
Tonight at 5:30, the new monorail director is going to answer the mayor’s deadline and present his plan for building our monorail. If you haven’t made it to a meeting before, this is a good one to attend as it’s important to show our support and desire for the monorail.
--un-snip--
Usually we like to entertain ourselves with a snarky cut or two but nothing like that here. We're as earnest as the shoeshine guy in front of the Frontier Room. If the monorail matters to you, you might want to hear things first hand and be there to represent your cause. Us? We eagerly await the details -- but we're reserving our cheering until we get a look at the spreadsheet.
-- j
Tags: seattle, uptown, monorail
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Deadbeat booted from uptown, lands in Pioneer Square
Seattle's goofy old-timey streetcars will have a new home. Maybe. Seattle PI reports the generous granting of $1M to the project to build a new maintenance barn for the little green death machines. We're told the project will top out around $9M with the Port, King County Metro and some parking lot scoundrel named Greg Smith kicking in the rest. All we know about Mr. Smith is that he owns the parking lot adjacent to the proposed barn and, presumably, will do ok on the transaction. The thought of a parking lot maven teaming up with the Port people and the find folks at King County Metro gives us a small case of the heebie jeebies. Really, though, we don't give a hoot. We're just happy to have the nuisance issue out of our backyard to make way for the glorious Olympic Sculpture Park.
-- j
Tags: uptown, seattle, streetcar, olympicsculpturepark
-- j
Tags: uptown, seattle, streetcar, olympicsculpturepark
Monday, September 12, 2005
Our primary erection: huge!
Ooops. Typo. Not surprising when it comes to democracy. Even highly educated, smarty pants folks get confused about the timing and purpose of the elections let alone who deserves a vote. The democratic process becomes a rushed, poorly thought out scramble. Boo!
First, here's what you need to know about timing:
Sept. 20 **STATE PRIMARY**
Sept. 30 Primary results certified
Oct. 19 Absentee ballots available
Oct. 24 Voter registration deadline
Nov. 8 **STATE GENERAL ELECTION**
Dec. 1 General results certified
We are already a step behind -- it's too late to register for the Sept. 20 primary but you have plenty of time to make sure things are squared away for Nov. 8.
As for purpose, washingtonvoter.org has a simple summary of the political seasons in our state. Like you probably learned in high school civics, the primary's primary purpose is to establish each party's main candidate in the general election. But don't make the mistake of thinking the Nov. election is the big show and the primary, some skippable warm-up -- in Seattle's city races, especially, it's critical that you put your vote behind the people who think like you. Without you, your kind of candidate can't go on to the general election, of course. But even if you don't back the eventual primary winner, you shape the upcoming race by showcasing what kinds of positions and philosophies will have to be understood and and catered to in order to receive your vote. Think of these primary candidates as the embodiment of how you'd like your city to be run and vote for the smartest, most innovative and progressive of the pack.
If you're looking for ideas, we prefer the Northwest Progressive Institute's endorsements because they represent cross-party thinking with a progressive, liberal core and, frankly, we like an endorsement list with a few surprises. But there are many to choose from.
--j
Tags: uptown, seattle, election, politics
First, here's what you need to know about timing:
Sept. 20 **STATE PRIMARY**
Sept. 30 Primary results certified
Oct. 19 Absentee ballots available
Oct. 24 Voter registration deadline
Nov. 8 **STATE GENERAL ELECTION**
Dec. 1 General results certified
We are already a step behind -- it's too late to register for the Sept. 20 primary but you have plenty of time to make sure things are squared away for Nov. 8.
As for purpose, washingtonvoter.org has a simple summary of the political seasons in our state. Like you probably learned in high school civics, the primary's primary purpose is to establish each party's main candidate in the general election. But don't make the mistake of thinking the Nov. election is the big show and the primary, some skippable warm-up -- in Seattle's city races, especially, it's critical that you put your vote behind the people who think like you. Without you, your kind of candidate can't go on to the general election, of course. But even if you don't back the eventual primary winner, you shape the upcoming race by showcasing what kinds of positions and philosophies will have to be understood and and catered to in order to receive your vote. Think of these primary candidates as the embodiment of how you'd like your city to be run and vote for the smartest, most innovative and progressive of the pack.
If you're looking for ideas, we prefer the Northwest Progressive Institute's endorsements because they represent cross-party thinking with a progressive, liberal core and, frankly, we like an endorsement list with a few surprises. But there are many to choose from.
--j
Tags: uptown, seattle, election, politics
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