Great article.
So, does the author have to put up with lots of crap, too?
(note to self...cross Seattle off the list)
Yes, I suspect he does. I'm almost surprised, observing its leftward drift over the past couple decades, that they print him. Then again, if it catches up to its evil dishonest liberal big sisters the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" (what do you have after all intelligence has departed? the "P-U!") and the Seattle Times (operative rule: if "Times" is not preceded by "Washington" it's probably chock-full of liberal lies).
It's not easy living in the Seattle area. Downtown Seattle is so disgusting to be in and so difficult to get to due to traffic (I live at most 20 miles to the East) that most everytime I go there's at least one new building up.
The "Eastside" (Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Bothell, etc.) is nicer, less congested, less expensive -- and if you, as a visitor, want to slum in Seattle itself, the bus service into town isn't bad.