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| articles from Seattle IAM where you will find | | | | |
| the best blogs from Seattle, WA as well as | | | | Texas to Test Dawgs Tonight |
| video uploads, social networking, rumors, and | | | | |
| blog authoring | | | | The Seattlest brings us an update on the |
| | | | tonight's NIT semifinal between the Huskies |
| Ferry Problems Escalate | | | | and Texas A&M. Blogger Seth reminds us |
| | | | that the Aggies are still a little steamed |
| Blogger John Gillie over at Biz Buzz asks | | | | due to “that whole Seahawks/12th man |
| readers if the latest ferry problems will | | | | dispute. (Texas A&M has a 12th man |
| slow down or speed up new ferry | | | | tradition too, they said the Hawks were |
| construction. The four ferries pulled from | | | | infringing on it).” Tonight’s |
| service last night by the Department of | | | | game will be a good test for Jon Brockman, |
| Transportation are badly in need of | | | | Husky forward, “who's dominated against |
| replacement. “The Legislature and the | | | | both small… and unathletic… |
| department have been trying for four years to | | | | front lines this season.” The |
| build four new ferries to replace the | | | | Aggie’s front line is neither small |
| 80-year-old Steel Electric class | | | | nor unathletic with All-American candidate |
| boats.” The issue has been caught up in | | | | Joseph Jones and future NBA lottery pick |
| politics, though, between the state and | | | | DeAndre Jordan up front. |
| Tacoma's Martinac Shipbuilding. | | | | |
| | | | The blogger’s post also states that |
| Gillie explains in his post that the state | | | | “the backcourt is a bigger |
| “tried to award the contract to | | | | question,” with the Aggies loss of |
| Seattle's Todd Shipyards two years | | | | point guard Acie Law to the NBA, replaced by |
| ago… saying Martinac was unqualified | | | | “lockdown defender Dominique |
| financially.” Martinac appealed the | | | | Kirk,” who’s, fortunately, not |
| decision, essentially blocking the award. | | | | the scorer Law was, although “wing Josh |
| Then, early this fall, the department and | | | | Carter has picked up the scoring |
| shipyards involved “reached a deal in | | | | slack… averaging 16 points a |
| which all three shipyards would share in the | | | | game.” A&M also has a new coach, |
| construction.” But in light of the | | | | Mark Turgeon. “Hopefully the Dawgs can |
| urgency to get the boats back in service, | | | | exploit any growing pains that go along with |
| will the state chose “make-do” | | | | learning a new offense.” Still, |
| repairs and build new boats or will it take | | | | they’re a solid team, a great |
| another option, “replacing the hulls of | | | | barometer for the Huskies. |
| the old ferries instead of building new | | | | |
| ones?” To complicate it all, one of the | | | | I-601 Constitutionality Side-Stepped Again |
| shipyards, Nichols Brothers, “has | | | | |
| filed for bankruptcy, putting its | | | | From Postman on Politics most recent blog, |
| participation in the new ferry deal in | | | | David Postman informs that “the state |
| limbo.” | | | | Supreme Court agreed unanimously this |
| | | | morning to uphold increases in tobacco and |
| Peripheral Art | | | | alcohol taxes approved by the 2005 |
| | | | Legislature.” The problem, however, is |
| A recent post in Slog, The Stranger’s | | | | that the court side-stepped important |
| blog, Jen Graves announces a unique art | | | | constitutional issues, specifically whether |
| installation, and collaboration between | | | | the 1993 voter-approved Initiative 601 was |
| Seattle artists Thom Heileson and Wyndel | | | | constitutional. “In 1994 the court |
| Hunt, “in which buildings—and | | | | declined to rule on a challenge to |
| sounds—stretch to the point of | | | | implementation of the law, saying the |
| disappearance.” Appearing at SOIL, Free | | | | plaintiffs could not yet show any harm from |
| Dissociation combines Hunt’s sound art | | | | the measure.” Currently, two justices |
| with Heileson’s imagery of | | | | wrote clearly that they think I-601 is |
| construction sites around Seattle. | | | | unconstitutional, while two others disagree. |
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| The post describes the piece, explaining | | | | The post reports that “Chambers and |
| that “by the time Heileson’s | | | | Alexander say that 1993's I-601 violates the |
| photographs make it to the screen, their | | | | state Constitution because it requires a |
| surroundings have been washed out.” The | | | | public vote for the Legislature to raise |
| half-constructed buildings are barely | | | | taxes above limits set by the |
| intelligible as they “float by, on the | | | | initiative,” an intrusion, they claim, |
| wave of Hunt’s heavy drone | | | | into the Legislature's constitutional |
| composition.” The projections appear on | | | | powers. We can avoid dealing with the |
| three sides, creating a sense of | | | | question, states Postman, but we do have the |
| “constantly missing something | | | | power to make a decision, and |
| that’s being projected right in front | | | | “answering the underlying question is |
| of you.” The exhibit is open at SOIL | | | | principled, is definitive, and will serve |
| (open noon-5 Thur-Sun) through November | | | | the public good. |