Wallingford, Seattle

If you nerded out on Nate Silver this past election, you may get a kick out of a series of maps King County has created. They show key demographic features of the county specifically related to income, race, ethnicity, and other social justice relevant measures. They're meant to be used by county staff for community engagement, program planning, and equity analyses, but also to help members of the communities understand the way the county is put together better.

Last week, Jeri wrote: Hi there. I just wanted to share that we had our car (a dark green 1996 Honda Civic) stolen from in front of our home sometime between 8pm last night and 8am this morning. I was hoping you could share this on your blog in case anyone saw anything suspicious and also so to inform others to keep an eye out so they don't experience the same unfortunate situation. We did file a police report but have…

After a long hiatus, hiding out from spambots, the Wallyhood Forums are back! These are an incredibly important part of the Wallyhood experience, because it's an opportunity for the readers to create the conversation. One of the problems with the "blog" format of community site is that unless one of the writers happens to write an article about a particular topic, there's nowhere for people to go to talk about it. As a result, comments sometimes get stuffed irrelevantly at the…

(Wallyhood welcomes its newest writer to our fold, Nicholas Kato.) What do we do when a reader reports gunshots in lower Wallingford? Well, as a gun enthusiast myself, who has the best 308 rifle I could fine - I say, gumshoe, of course. After hearing reports there was a man seen with a rifle on December 2nd at 34th and Burke, I walked the block last Friday to investigate. What I found was surprising, to say the least. Two spent 10-gauge…