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This page regularly updates feeds from several sources of local Seattle-area information.
This page is mostly about what's happening now. Find out what happened years ago on this date.Times local headlines
What's catching the eye of MSM. Take #1.
Local headlines from The Seattle Times
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What's catching the eye of MSM. Take #2.
Local headlines from The Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Frequent posts by the paper's writers
News and comments from The Stranger's blog
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Meta-posts about local blog post from aggregator Citizen Rain
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These frequent bloggers are part of a conglomerate of city-focused joint-blog sites.
Recent posts from seattlest.com/
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Nothwest online newspaper for the "Great Nearby"
Headlines from Crosscut
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Blog posts by Times political reporter and columnist David Postman
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Posts by PI political reporters and Joel Connelly.
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Another joint-blog, part of a different conglomerate.
Recent posts from seattle.metblogs.com/
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Street fashion from the Hill and beyond
Photos and comments on street fashion
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BizJournal headlines
Headlines from Puget Sound Business Journal
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State news from Stateline.org (Pew Trust)
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Seattle news/talk radio and its politics
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BusChick gets around town in those big blue/teal/green and gold boxes with black stripes
Fetching RSS feed... please stand bySome Emerald City Links
- Metro's trip planner
- Metro's own trip planner doesn't give an exact map, but it offers more route choices which are often closer or quicker than Google's.
- Seattle Bus Monster
- Real-time tracking on a Google map of a bus route or all buses at a stop.
- This week in WA history
- An updated weekly look at the history of Seattle and the state.
- Seattle LiveJournal users
- What are LiveJournal diarists in Seattle talking about today?
- Seattle Channel schedule
- What's showing on Seattle Channel today?
- CraigsList: Seattle / Tacoma
- Local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events
- Google's bus map for Metro
- Enter start-point and destination address. If you're really lucky, you'll get a map of one possible -- though often bizarre -- route.
Why "Seattle"? A history primer
Photo of Chief Seattle bust by "coolmel" on FlickrAlthough native peoples had lived in villages in the area for thousands of years, Seattle is a relatively young city. The first lasting Euro/white settlement along the densely forested banks of "Elliott Bay" wasn't established until 1851.
The town that grew from those settlements took its name from a tribal elder related to both the Duwamish and Suquamish clans who had villages in the area. He was called "Chief" Seattle by the settlers even though his clans didn't recognize the kind of formal assignment of leadership duties that the word "chief" suggests. His name is sometimes also spelled as "Sealth".
"The different forms arose from the difficulty in catching the guttural pronunciation by the Indians. In addition to the above instances, it may be cited that in 1853, Theodore Winthrop wrote it 'Se-at-tlh.' In 1858, the United States Coast Survey wrote it 'Se-at-tl.' The more euphonious spelling on that first pioneer plat has persisted. The Indians' own name for the place was 'Tzee-tzee-lal-itch,' meaning 'little portage,' and referring to the trail to the large lake -Washington- so much shorter that the circuitous river route." -- Tacoma Public Library
Pronunciation of local place names, which are often derived from (sometimes misunderstood) native words, is often a tricky task for newcomers and visitors.
Seattle's hour-glass spaped city limits are relatively small and divided into a a number of neighborhoods. (The small map lists all named neighborhoods in each section of the city.)
Starbucks Gossip
Way more than you probably wanted to know about Starbucks.
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A Denver-based chain paper occasionally things here
News, politics, media, links from a Seattle Weekly blog
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Local news bits from a realtor
Local news plus home-buying tips.
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News and reviews of Seattle condos from urbnlivn
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Announcements and tidbits about gay-related stuff
From gay news site seaQwa.com's Seattle-focused blog
Also see: Gay Seattle lens.
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What passes for "news" items from the new Seattle Weekly
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Writers from Rivet Mag blog arts & culture
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Short Trips in the Pacific Northwest: 52 Weekend Destinatons from Seattle and Portland
Amazon Price: (as of 07/12/2009) 
Celebrate The Rain: Cooking With The Fresh And Abundant Flavors Of The Pacific Northwest
Amazon Price: $21.09 (as of 07/12/2009)
Answering Chief Seattle
Amazon Price: $15.95 (as of 07/12/2009)
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Flashfink wrote
When I was a kid growing up in Vancouver (B.C., not Washington)I watched a lot of TV from Seattle. I figured any city that has shows like J.P. Patches and Nightmare Theater must be a pretty great place!
Posted April 01, 2008
robinev wrote
We've rearranged things a bit and added a feed from the interesting Seattle Daily Photo site. (Yup, we've noticed that the picture doesn't show up until you visit the site, but are hoping that will change.)
Posted October 06, 2006
by robinev
Robin Evans has lived in Seattle for 25 years. He's the "newseditor" for the gay news site lgbtQnews.com
From 1981 until 1985 or so, Evans was...
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