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RANDOM LINKS FOR 8/29/12
August 28th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

Today’s historic-preservation outrage involves the Jefferson Park Golf Course clubhouse. It’s a magnificent structure, “homey” yet elegant, that’s served city residents for more than 75 years. The City wants to raze it to put up a new driving range. It’s rushing through a plan to deny landmark status to the building, in cahoots with the architects that are planning the redevelopment scheme.

  • This week, the southeast corner of the United States has been hammered by a massive destructive force of nature, devastating the people and the land with its wind and fury. There’s also a tropical storm.
  • A deaf woman in Tacoma was arrested for a crime she was really the victim of. She was tasered and held for 60 hours without access to an interpreter. She’s now got a global support network.
  • The stretch road in front of the J.P. Patches statue in Fremont may get the honorary second name of “J.P. Patches Place.”
  • Dan Froomkin doesn’t want more jobs. He wants more decent-paying jobs than today’s corporate sector seems willing to provide.
  • As Seattle’s libraries and their patrons endure their fourth annual end-o’-summer closed week, the son of an ex-Seattle Public Library bigwig believes libraries need to reinvent themselves by ditching those dumb ol’ books, or at least stuffing them in some inaccessible-by-the-public storage facility. Uh, thanks but no thanks.
  • Meanwhile, the volunteer-run “People’s Library” at 23rd and Yesler plans to remain open after the city libraries reopen, at least through the end of this month.
  • Pierce Transit, already socked by over-dependence on local sales tax revenue, could face potential total shutdown (or something close to it) if a tax increase measure doesn’t pass.
  • An extreme-right-wing militia cult wanted to bomb a Wash. state dam and poison the state’s apple crop.
  • Higher prices, less selection. Isn’t liquor privatization wonderful?
  • In the no-rules/new-rules world of self-e-publishing, you can get your book all the rave reviews it needs, and for a reasonable price.
  • Bill Nye, who’s usually right about these things, proclaims that creationist fantasy is not healthy for children and other living things.

One Response  
  • elaine bonow writes:
    September 1st, 201212:28 amat

    The Clubhouse at Jefferson is a wonderful place and should NOT be torn down. the city is also trying mess the Greenlake course trying to get bidders to turn it into some disgusting theme park. this city sucks and the mayor too!


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