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IN THURSDAY'S NOOZE

December 6th, 2007 by Clark Humphrey

The LGBT Community Center, which just got its own Capitol Hill building a couple years back, is now in fiscal trouble. It may close by month’s end. Does cultural acceptance of other sexual preferences necessarily lead to assimilation, and in turn to the death of niche-subculture institutions?
Is Paul Allen getting a “sweetheart deal” from the City in regards to his South Lake Union development projects? Many have rumored such allegations, and now City Councilmember Peter Steinbrueck is vocalizing ’em.
No, Snohomish cops, UW profs taking industrial-art photographs are not terrotists.
Microsoft’s shut down a holiday greetings Web page that featured a sometimes foul-mouthed Santa.
In decades past, private, for-profit lending libraries offered books for rent, sometimes in genres or to audience niches public libraries wouldn’t or couldn’t fully serve. Now, some web entrepreneurs want to bring back the concept, in the form of “a Netflix for books.”
And, yep, there’s still lotsa flood damage and closed roads and highways throughout Western Washington.