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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 10/12/16, 6:51 am

The last day to register to vote online came and went with record smashing numbers. Congrats to any new voters! But if for some reason, you’re a reader of HA and still need to register in Washington, you can. Do it in person.

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Open Thread October 10

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 10/10/16, 6:39 am

Before we get too removed from the Trump tapes, I’d like to extend an extra special fuck you to the people who enabled Trump over the decades who are now condemning him. Oh Republican elected officials who knew who he was thing this is beyond the pale. Great, but you’re late to the fucking party. Mitt Romney spent half of 2012 alone with Trump and still desperately courted his vote. He was a gentleman the whole time? Oh producers of his show say he said even worse? And yet you kept working with him. Oh there’s probably tape of him dropping n-bombs? Did you not do anything when they first came out?

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Open Thread — 7 Oct

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 10/7/16, 6:12 am

It’s always a bit tough to figure out when companies make decisions that activists have been pushing, how much is because of those activists, and how much is the stated reasons. So Shell won’t be sending oil trains to Anacortes.

I don’t know how much oil prices had to do with it as the company says, and how much activists and environmentalists won the day. It’s great for Anacortes, and good for everywhere between there and the Bakken.

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O’Penthread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 10/5/16, 6:56 am

On top of the instrumental benefits of getting the hell around much faster, Sound Transit expansion will be good for the environment. It’s sort of duh, but it’s nice to be able to read some specifics. It’s nice to be able to say it will cut over 360 million vehicle miles per year, save 800,000 tons of annual carbon emissions. Rather than just I assume it must be because driving is still driving.

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Open Thread October 3

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 10/3/16, 7:07 am

I’ve always thought that with vote by mail and the general good government stance of the state, that Republican secretaries of state can’t fuck things up too badly. But Kim Wyman is determined to try.

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Open Thread 9-30

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/30/16, 6:59 am

Is anyone surprised that the Seattle Police are tracking people’s social media, including location? I mean Geofeedia seems like creepsville in general. Add to that people with guns and tasers and the ability to literally arrest you.

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oPEN THREAd

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/28/16, 7:07 am

I know the post-debate analysis has been done already. But I just want to highlight this that Trump said.

And when it comes to stop-and-frisk, you know, you’re talking about takes guns away. Well, I’m talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them. And I don’t think — I really don’t think you disagree with me on this, if you want to know the truth.

There were some people who called out in real time how shitty it was that he was telling a woman how she really feels. And yeah.

But the other part of the dynamic is white people talking to other white people. One says something racist and the other person rejects it. It can be a joke, or some “observation” or a policy proposal. And the other person doesn’t agree. But the first person insists that the other person approves of their joke or observation or policy proposal. No matter how much they say they don’t.

This is the same dynamic of people yelling about PC culture.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/26/16, 6:40 am

Did anyone else go to the Angle Lake Station? I skipped the opening ceremony, but did check it out later in the day. It’s a lot more isolated than any of the other stations. Just walking around it looked like it was mostly hotels and a federal detention center that I didn’t know existed. I guess that’s probably good for future growth. Maybe.

I’d prefer a Graham Street Station (or other places where it’s a long distance between stations) to that. But I guess the goal is to get further and further South. I’m always happy with more light rail, so it was pretty neat.

Also, a lot of parking.

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Open Thread Sept. 23

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/23/16, 6:44 am

I’m all for the City Attorney’s office suing the crap out of people who cut those trees down in West Seattle. I mean fuck them. Oh, my view could be better if I just clear cut city land illegally is not an OK thing.

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Sep. 21, Thread: Open!

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/21/16, 6:43 am

Secure Scheduling. Seattle has secure scheduling. Just like with sick leave/safe leave and with various state and local minimum wage initiatives, the business community are having a sad. But just like those things, it’ll be a bit better than it was before for working folks.

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Open Thread 9-19

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/19/16, 6:37 am

Somehow I missed that Park(ing) Day just happened. It looks like many of the locations were pretty fun. And somehow cars still exist. The war on cars is going pretty poorly.

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Open Thread 9-16-2016-AD

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/16/16, 6:14 am

A) Yay! B) I’m not sure how temporary putting the bunker on hold is. Hopefully it won’t be back, as is or slightly modified, in a few months. C) Holy shit, great job activist community. D) Even as Murray was doing the right thing his statement was pretty shitty. Blaming McGinn and environmentalists for the cost. What?

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Op-En—Thr-Ead

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/14/16, 6:59 am

I don’t know exactly the details of “try” to solve homelessness crisis in Seattle. But the main thing is to build more housing. A lot more. Public and private sectors. It probably means better zoning and better incentives to not just build luxury housing.

It isn’t punishing people for being homeless, especially when they don’t have other options. Best case, that means they leave the jungle and go somewhere else. Maybe a sanctioned place, maybe some other unsanctioned place, maybe another city or the suburbs.

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September 12 Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/12/16, 6:20 am

As a white person, far be it from me to tell the majority Black Seahawks that they’re protesting police brutality wrong, especially when they’re at work. Still, I think if you thought it hit the right cord or if you thought it was a bit too all-lives-matter, we can all agree fuck the mayor of DuPont. What an asshole. I hope he draws strong opposition next time he’s up.

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Open Thread 9-9

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/9/16, 6:42 am

I’m both inspired and a little pissed off about Bob Ferguson supporting an assault weapons ban. On the one hand, it’s well past time, and I hope his push for this adds to the call. I suppose it’s possible to get something passed depending on the makeup of the next legislature.

On the other hand, it’s a relatively small amount of the gun deaths. And we’re going to need a lot more wholesale change than nibbling around the edges.

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