While I'm not specifically blaming Mayor Nickels for the WaMu disaster

have you noticed that since he's been in charge, old Seattle is gradually disappearing?

WaMu - gone
Sonics - gone
Sunset Bowl - gone
Ballard Denny's - gone

The list goes on and on, of course. Now, he wants to knock down a grove of 100 old trees in Maple Leaf, in the face of fierce community opposition - this despite his supposed tree initiative.

http://www.mapleleafcommunity.org/savewaldo.html

Don't get me started on the Thornton Creek development. It was painted as a sleepy little development - in reality, it's a bunch of cheaply built condos that will tower over a little trickle of a creek. The construction is invasive, my bus stop has been closed down for a couple of years, and the whole thing is going to look horrible.

...(now a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual of Boston), RKCNDY, and the Crocodile Cafe. Of course, Boeing's also gone, but I think that occurred on Paul Schell's watch.

The city's been going downhill since Norm Rice left office.

I should probably throw in the University of Washington football team.

But, seriously, please call the mayor's office about the Waldo hospital grove of trees. It will wreck Maple Leaf if they develop that.

everywhere today. I thought I had escaped the suburban family atmosphere?

One of those people with kids might be me, as my 6 year old and I like to go down to Fremont.

(We live in Greenwood, BTW)

Change is inevitable but it seems this decade the chenges locally have been for the worse. But hey, I've lived here since 1961 so maybe I'm just a grumpy old man.

Personally, I think transistors are to blame for global warming, as there are far more transistors around now than there ever has been in the past. But in any case... correlation does not imply causation. :hi: