Top stories around the Ist-a-verse over the last seven days:
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Week Around the Ists
It was a heavily political week at Seattlest, as the King County Council made us wait on a decision that could have set mass transit in the region back 15 years; thankfully, the council came to their senses and Seattle’s Metro dodges a major bullet in the process. After the primaries, in which the controversial deep bored tunnel project was , we found ourselves disturbed by the amount of presumption exhibited by Starbucks CEO Howard Schulz’s recent political maneuverings.
Week Around the Ists
This week Seattlest saw the sentencing of Isaiah Kalebu, and thus the end of one of the most thoroughly disturbing trial cases in recent history; watched and celebrated as the King County council got its act together and enacted policy to save mass transit in the area; and were proud of Senator Patty Murray for advancing onto the Super Congress, even if we’re leery the very concept to begin with.
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Chicagoist’s readers had a field day with a Cubs marketing report that indicated one-third of Chicago Cubs attendance was a result of tourism, spurring concerns with the team about the need to cultivate homegrown fans.
Week Around the Ists
Seattlest observed a fairly varied week, as first we felt a little paranoid at the news that state government was planning on installing surveillance cameras in our state forests. We also celebrated being named in the RIP Bagley Wright, aged 87.
Week Around the Ists
It’s been an active week for Seattlest’s oft-divisive mayor; on Mayor McGinn’s agenda is the continuing battle over child prostitution with local Village Voice Media paper, the Seattle Weekly, at week’s end, neither party has budged, with McGinn threatening to go nationwide. Elsewhere, McGinn begins making moves toward bringing state liquor laws into the 21st Century. In non-mayor-related civic news, the people of Seattle crowded county council chambers in support of Metro, the county’s mass transit system.
Week Around the Ists
SFist shared news that LGBT history will be added to California text books.
Week Around the Ists
Seattlest spent the week preparing for some recession-induced severe cuts to its mass transit system; watched and were astonished as the Amanda Knox case devolved to slapstick in Italy; swelled with pride as our ladies in green and gold met with the president;and applauded our mayor for diving into the middle of Ashton Kutcher’s fight against the Village Voice family of alternative weeklies.
Week Around the Ists
This week Seattlest saw things get worse for the Seattle Police Department, as a Federal lawsuit was filed against two of its officers; gawked as the fight for the legalization of marijuana found a new proponent in a former US Attorney; and ended the week by discussing a sure-fire way to make oenophiles really angry.
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SFist wondered why the University of New Mexico football player who was arrested at San Francisco International Airport because he wouldn’t pull up his saggy pants on the plane wanted to put his underwear on the airline seats.
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Gothamist found out you can get a summons for eating a doughnut in the park. Oh, and a Congressman is really into social media—and sending explicit photos of his genitals to Twitter followers/Facebook fans.
Week Around the Ists
Chicagoist was on the scene for the first civil union ceremonies in Millennium Park since the civil unions law took effect, while speculation ran as to whether an increased presence of gang bangers at North Avenue Beach forced police to close it down on Memorial Day.
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Shanghaiist looked at the sad story of Qian Mingxi, the man responsible for Thursday's bombing of three government buildings in Fuzhou City, Jiangxi province.
Week Around the Ists
Gothamist was riveted by the news that now-former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. Of course, the French were disgusted by America’s tradition/love of the perp walk and Ben Stein wondered how a “short fat old man" could allegedly rape anyone.
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It was a bad week for hipsters at Chicagoist. A hispter post-grad map of inhabitable U.S. cities inexplicably omitted Chicago; a flyer demanded "white hipsters" leave the predominantly Mexican Pilsen neighborhood; and they obtained an email from Pabst announcing they were leaving suburban Woodridge for Los Angeles.
Week Around the Ists
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Gothamist found out that a subway passenger was stabbed in the head with a pen after telling a man to stop smoking...his blunt.
Week Around the Ists
DCist was in full shutdown preparation mode last week. With the District’s House delegate recommending Congress "go straight to hell", its residents planning to dump garbage -- which in front of Speaker of the House John Boehner’s home, and many wondering what would happen if we just didn’t comply with federal regulations, it’s probably a good thing a last-minute agreement was reached. (Then again, considering the deal bans the city from spending money on abortions, it’s hardly a helpful development in D.C.’s never-ending battle for autonomy.)
Week around the Ists: Judgement Day, "speeding" bicyclists & full face transplants!
LAist reminded everyone to save the date for the end of the world, which, according to a California-based billboard campaign, is slated for May 21. Oh joy. Oh rapture.
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