The meeting had a great turn out with 75 people signing in.We covered a lot of material but there was not enough time to answer all of the questions or hear all of the comments.

If you still have questions or comments I would like to hear them.Better yet, email them to the Mayor and the City Council.

Take the time to send an email.It can be as...

Belltown bar expanding to Microsoft
"At the very least, parking for Spitfire's Microsoft patrons won't be nearly the hassle it is on Belltown's crowded streets. The new Redmond complex includes a gigantic underground parking garage with room for about 5000 vehicles. ... "...

In the foreground of this photo taken on the morning of Friday, November 14 we see two young, African-American men with baggy pants and other possible gang attire. In the background are some bike cops, perhaps part of the cyclical increase in police presence the strained S.P.D. temporarily wheels out every time there is an impassioned meeting about...

Wednesday night and walking around Belltown and no depression-like "recession" in sight. Restaurants and clubs are busy and making money. Belltown Pizza, Two Bells, Shallots, Marco's and more appear to thrive. Folks all around on the streets.

Eighty degrees inside the Union Hall. Over an hour of stuff from the police with graphs and stats and whatnot...

The Iraq War is over, according to the fake New York Times!
"The email address that sent out this message was linked to the site of The Yes Men, longtime liberal prank group that has been doing things just as complex and finely tuned as this for years. The Yes Men run the Because We Want It...

Now that it is fashionable to praise people who work for the betterment of society for little or no money and whatnot I'd like to give shoutouts to Eat the State, Seattles steadiest "anti-authoritarian" publication.

ETS has been going strong in print for ten years, and also on the Interspaces...

While on the way to another Seattle Aquarium visit I disregarded the safety of my kid and parked us under Seattle's decrepit Alaskan Way Viaduct.

I noticed that a rain gutter (see photos) was clogged with debris, and that a hole had been welded through the pipe to release water onto the street. ALL of the gutters I saw within a block or so looked like...

Right now DowntownDispatch.com is being run by one person who spends between three seconds and eighty minutes per day on it, for pure enjoyment, because he's trying to be a better writer. We also have a "scanner lady" who is trying to get a police scanner blog system off the ground, but that hasn't started yet.

KOMO now has a Seattle Police scanner...

Hi all, my apologies in getting this out a bit late this month!
If you have any questions about any of the items in this newsletter, please contact Sara Wysocki, sara.wysocki@seattle.gov or 206.233.8560

News/Events

See the story here:
75 Belltownites Roast Cops at Steamy Union Hall
-DowntownDispatch.com

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Update - new location...

OBAMA WINS!... by all the top cartoonists!

Belltown Crime to be Addressed again at November 12 BCC meeting:
BCC Meeting: "Crack Out of Belltown"

Seattle man charged with assault for Belltown shooting
"A 23-year-old Seattle man who police say shot his girlfriend in the face and...

Sarah Palin falls for prank call by Montreal radio hosts, ends up on YouTube
Chris Parry, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, November 01, 2008

A notorious Montreal-based comedy duo named The Master Avengers has released a recording of...

At democracynow.org, of course!
Live Election Night Coverage
Democracy Now! will broadcast & video livestream a five-hour election night special on November 4th from 07:00PM–12:00AM ET to report the results as they come in.

On November...

For Immediate Release

Contact: Paul Merrill
People's Republic of Komedy
206.380-6571

seattlecomedy@gmail.com...

From July 7, 2005!
Greenspan's Fraud: How Two Decades of His Policies Have Undermined the Global Economy by Ravi Batra

Thom Hartmann's "Independent Thinker" Book of the Month...

"The commercial broadcasters are cleaning up this year like never before, and you will never hear them questioning this system that allows so much money to come, in fact, to them."
-Bill Buzenberg

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Does Obama’...

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Do you remember rock'n'roll radio? Remembering Seattle's KCMU

KCMU was the University of Washington's radio station from 1972 through 2001. In 1971 UW undergraduates John Kean, Cliff Noonan, Tory Fiedler, and Brent Wilcox started talking starting talking about and planning a college radio station at the UW. The Communications...

Update 10-26-08: Condensed version of this story published in the November Belltown Messenger.

Update 10-23-08: Self-hating black man Robert L. Jamieson, Jr., who calls other human beings "thugs" much in the style of right wing Fox TV host John Walsh, blames Mayor Nickels for latest 2nd and Bell shooting incident.

Wake up, mayor: Belltown's in trouble<...

Endorsements won't buy you a cup of coffee any more than my opinion will if you don't have three bucks. Still, there's something exciting about these Downtown Dispatch endorsements because the person writing this right now last voted in 2000.

That's right, after getting burned by moderate Republican president Bill Clinton in 1992 I went without voting...

Here are our top 50 Seattle media websites (including upstart WEB ONLY outlets) for the month of October, 2008.
Our ranking system is based on Alexa/Quantcast (estimated US people per month)/websiteoutlook.com (estimated daily page views & daily ad revenue of main page) and also our own voodoo....

"I recently had the pleasure of talking about our city with former City Council President Peter Steinbrueck. An award-winning architect, Steinbrueck contributed a deep knowledge of civic design and planning issues to local politics as a council member from 1997-2007, and has long been a champion of forward-thinking issues around urban livability. He...