Go round and round: The Street Smarts column reminds drivers the start of the school year means an increase in traffic, adding about 14 percent more traffic to rush hour.
Of course, we could eliminate that 14 percent if young’uns walked the eight miles to school we did. In four feet of snow. In shoes with cardboard soles. Carrying our books bound with a belt. Both ways.
Are you ready for some practice? Seattle Seahawk players have differing opinions about whether Saturday’s third preseason game had some meaning or was just a “glorified practice.”
That’s opposed to the debate among the Seattle Mariners and whether the last month of the season has any meaning or if it’s just a glorified early start on next season’s spring training.
Sorry, Bill; how about an airport? President Obama will change the name of Mount McKinley to Denali, a native Alaskan word for “the Great One.”
Donald Trump, R-Yuuuge, said he doesn’t object, but when he’s president he’ll further refine the name change to Mount Trump, which is his native word for “the Great One.”
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