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On Other Blogs Today: Pizza, Pierce County, Pussy Riot, and More
1. No Justice, No Pizza: The Stand
(the International Labor Workers' Union's daily newsletter) reports on efforts by union supporters at the University of Washington to oppose Costco's contract with pizza purveyor Palermo's, which has been cited for labor violations.
2. At Crosscut, Knute Berger discusses something we talked about on KUOW's "Weekday" last week: Whether Seattle's street grid system makes sense. (I'm pro-grid, because it allows people who aren't in cars to get around; he's pro-streets that "track the landscape," whether that involves cul-de-sacs or "quirky" paths around our lakes and hills or Pike Place Market-style "irregularity."
3. The AP reports that Washington State politicians spend their excess campaign cash on everything from booze to iPads to auto repairs.
4. The LA Times reports that two members of the feminist collective Pussy Riot have fled Russia and are looking for international supporters to back their free-speech cause.
5. The Tacoma Pierce County Chamber of Commerce came out against the county's proposal to stave off an additional 50 percent bus service cut (Pierce Transit has already cut 43 percent of its service since 2007). Tacoma Tomorrow explains why cutting even more bus service would be disastrous.
6. At Propeller Magazine, writer Mary Rechner issues a broadside against today's culture of "urban homesteading," which, she argues, is shorthand for sending women back to the kitchen.
2. At Crosscut, Knute Berger discusses something we talked about on KUOW's "Weekday" last week: Whether Seattle's street grid system makes sense. (I'm pro-grid, because it allows people who aren't in cars to get around; he's pro-streets that "track the landscape," whether that involves cul-de-sacs or "quirky" paths around our lakes and hills or Pike Place Market-style "irregularity."
3. The AP reports that Washington State politicians spend their excess campaign cash on everything from booze to iPads to auto repairs.
4. The LA Times reports that two members of the feminist collective Pussy Riot have fled Russia and are looking for international supporters to back their free-speech cause.
5. The Tacoma Pierce County Chamber of Commerce came out against the county's proposal to stave off an additional 50 percent bus service cut (Pierce Transit has already cut 43 percent of its service since 2007). Tacoma Tomorrow explains why cutting even more bus service would be disastrous.
6. At Propeller Magazine, writer Mary Rechner issues a broadside against today's culture of "urban homesteading," which, she argues, is shorthand for sending women back to the kitchen.
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