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When I first moved to Seattle in 1993, I regularly visited a coffee shop in the University District called The Last Exit on Brooklyn. The large, rustic, high-ceilinged warehouse space was a sanctuary for the artistic, bohemian counterculture—a vestige of the beat generation—that once defined the city. The large, round wooden tables were always filled with “long-haired hippies” (both old and young) sketching in notepads and painting at easels; reading and writing (with actual pen and paper) poetry, novels, and song…

Pro-HALA folks paint San Francisco as our nightmare future if HALA doesn't pass, where all housing near jobs costs millions of dollars. Anti-HALA folks paint Ballard as our future if HALA passes, where existing residents are driven out by a construction tsunami and we are left with luxury housing that is 95% tech bros (plus 5% reserved for a few token "poor" people that win the MHA lottery) I sat down with some Wallingford HALA proponents, looking for win-win solutions to housing…

Last Friday I sat down with mayoral candidate Cary Moon to ask her a series of questions about her candidacy and how her election might effect the residents of Wallingford. Cary was congenial, open and candid while she answered every question that I posed to her. I viewed my role as just a reporter who asked the questions and did not challenge any of her answers and remarks. I want to thank Cary and her team for the time they shared…

The time has come for the second* most important question of October: will I get trick-or-treaters at my house? This is a sticky issue. Guessing wrong has potentially damaging ramifications: overbuy on treats and you end up with a dangerous indulgence situation for at least a month. Underbuy and you'll find yourself crouching behind the couch with the lights off while droves of sugar-drunk hooligans stomp up and down your front steps. As a neighborhood, Wallingford does well for trick-or-treaters. Tripsavvy…

Yes, yes, "Wallingford Home For Sale", it hardly seems worth a mention on a neighborhood blog. Lots of housing for sale, after all. Ah, but this is THE Wallingford home, as in the home that once belonged to John Wallingford, after whom our dear little neighborhood was named. It's standing in all its wee craftsman glory up on 1624 N 50th St, just east of the southeast tip of Woodland Park. According to HistoryLink, John arrived in Seattle from Maine via Minnesota…