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RANDOM LINKS FOR 7/8/11

July 8th, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

Local business promoters have prepared an “infographic” hawking Seattle as the best place to start a hi-tech company.
First, Sonic Boom Records said it would close its recently moved Capitol Hill branch. Now Everyday Music says high rents are forcing it out of its own site on the Hill. The store says it will move, somewhere.
Seattle Goodwill tried several times over the past 12 years to redevelop its Rainier Valley campus. One scheme would have razed its beautiful mega thrift store for a Target. With the collapse of that and other concepts, Goodwill is finally going ahead with a limited plan to build a new job training complex.
Alex Carson explains why “Seattle Mariners baseball is like an Elvis Costello album.” An album Carson hasn’t actually heard.
In more tragic baseball news, a fan at a Texas Rangers game leaned over a railing to catch a ball and fell over.
State Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna spoke to Young Republicans in Bellevue, and tried to have a Democratic Party operative kicked out of the room, even calling police.
Meanwhile, a national “Christian Left” group bought ad space on Facebook for a quite inoffensive little message. Facebook pulled the ad after conservatives complained.
A Portland judge approved aÂ bankruptcy plan for the Northwest Jesuits. It sets aside more than $150 million for past victims of abusive priests.
Meanwhile, a Centers for Disease Control report claims more than half of usÂ had harrowing childhoods, “featuring abusive or troubled family members or parents who were absent due to separation or divorce.” In other news, Leave It to Beaver was never real.