This fall, Seattle-area voters will vote on ST2, $9.8B transit package, including light rail to the suburbs. Like any smart bureaucracy, they’re holding focus groups, like this one, which reminds me why I would hate to be the guy who runs focus groups:
[P]eople were worried about encroachment on established residential areas around downtown Bellevue.
It isn’t just the neighborhoods, said Susan Woerdehoff of Bellevue. It’s the amenities, too.
“Don’t touch the Pancake Corral,” said the 42-year-old who grew up in Bellevue. “Don’t mess with Chace’s pancake house.”
Ho boy.
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Obama and McCain get ready for the conventions, news from Georgia, Russia and Pakistan, the wages of the War on Drugs, and finally, WA’s Governors race gets ugly.
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