Your security services at work

(8:46 am) Why did a caravan of Homeland Security cops (a sedan and two SUVs) need to go racing up Third Avenue, full lights and sirens, at the end of this morning's rush hour?

Bloody Leader

How did I miss this one?

Maron at Bumbershoot!

Marc Maron, the funniest person fired twice by Air America, will be at the Seattle's Bumbershoot music/arts festival over Labor Day weekend. According to story today on CBS Marketwatch, Maron --along with "satiristas" Janeane Garofalo, Tom Rhodes and Rep. Richard (Dick) Martin will appear on the Comedy Stage South aka the Charlotte Martin Theatre.

Sonics aftermath - can we move on yet?

Now that the Sonics are loading their stuff into Clay Bennett's stretch Escalade (one guesses) for the long drive to OKC, is it too soon to raise the issue of what happens to the future city revenue no longer dedicated to paying off the Key Arena remodel?

For years, the City has used the excuse "there just isn't enough money for that" for everything not involving Paul Allen. Well the Sonics settlement means $25 million has been freed up.

I hereby step to the counter and take a numbered ticket in the name of sidewalks for all of Greenwood. Everybody else: the line forms behind me.

What activist judiciary?

I have received word that a state appeals court has struck down King County's "65/10 rule," requiring property owners retain 65% of forest and limiting impervious surface to 10%. This rule is critical to the issue of reducing stormwater runoff, which is a major source of pollutants that enter Puget Sound.

The rule is meant to comply with the Growth Management Hearings Board policies, but my source has told me the appeals court has held the rule to be an illegal fee.

More as it develops.

Update (1518 PDT): The Post-Intelligencer has the first media report.

More at This Week in Precipitation.