Wallingford, Seattle

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Election season is upon us! Will the Democrats hold on to their tenuous lead in the Senate? Who knows? We have no say in it! Patty Murray isn't up for re-election until 2016 and Maria Cantwell sits tight until 2018. But, we do have a few things that we can vote on, including Proposition 1, a Seattle-only alternative to the King County Proposition 1 transit bill that lost a special election this August. The Wallingford members of the Environmental Caucus of the 43rd…

While this is probably old news to pretty much everyone but me, Kite Hill, and most of the mid-section of Gas Works Park is closed, and will remain so until Memorial Day 2015. I mean, yeah, Lee posted about it on these very pages back in February, but somehow it didn't sink in that this towering icon of our neighborhood would be off-limits for eight months. So, yeah, Kite Hill is closed until May 2015. They're replacing all of the topsoil with…

Chris Harmon writes: I stopped at Dick's for a soft drink.  As I got out of my car a 20-something fella came trotting over asking if the car I was in was mine.  I said yes then he said he had noticed a couple of dings and scratches and said he could fix them on the spot. I replied with a firm and annoyed NO.  He didn't try to convince me.  I watched where he went and it was to his fancy black shiny…