And, as it turns out, we can't do much of ANYTHING about it either. According to a new study (via Sightline), congestion correlates directly with population regardless of whether a city is sprawling or dense. Sightline's Clark Williams-Derry writes: Demagogues would have you believe that there's som...

The media bloodbath hasn’t made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York, you could practi...

One of the hard things about living in a basement is the lack of natural light we get down here. So with slow shutter speeds to compensate, you can imagine most of my images are going to have some blur in them when photographing toddlers. I don't really mind though because I think it shows life ...

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It is almost immediate; I feel spring in the air and I start planning inexpensive projects for my home.I shop for deals and research the internet like a mad women on a mission. First project on my list of things to do is install a door knob on the bathroom door and finish the floor. I installed the ...

This week has flown bye. With the spring like weather I spent many days out and about. It has been great.Today the girls and I met up with Joe and went walking at the school. We walked for a half hour while Joe played racket ball. Little did I know, we would follow Joe to the mall and walk some more...

Our Asshole of the Week winners are of course always assholes, but sometimes they are helped by both stupidity and incompetence. Which makes our job easier. So, cheers to you Steve Russo! The delightful Russo, age 36, hosted parties for his 16-year-old son in the basement of his home, providing beer...

In his latest column, the P-I's Joel Connelly is mystified that Democratic leaders in the state House snubbed Seattle in doling out federal transportation stimulus dollars. He writes: The snubbing of Seattle by Democratic rulers in Olympia is a little tougher to figure out. After all, the house spea...

The closer it gets to May the more I realize we only have a year left. One more year and Joe has finished grad school. However, in lot of ways, this last year will be the most challenging. I am up for the challenge because I am ready to be done. It just leaves a lot of questions and very little answ...

I started my week asking God to give me the strength to change my life style. I am pretty impressed with my first week. I managed to keep my calories to 1200 a day all week, sometimes less then that but that is not good. I thought keeping calories that low would be a challenge but it was not at all....