http://www.rainiervalleypost.com Proudly serving Southeast Seattle since 2007 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:22:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-blue-scholars-update-coffee-and-snow-video/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-blue-scholars-update-coffee-and-snow-video/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 18:42:00 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=31203 The Blue Scholars – the south-end’s own homegrown hip-hop kings – have updated their 2008 “Coffee and Snow” video with “Coffee and Snow II” (above): It snowed again. So we filmed something… again. The original “Coffee and Snow” (above): It snowed. So we filmed something. Which Coffee and Snow video do you prefer? The original [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-blue-scholars-update-coffee-and-snow-video/feed/ 0 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/tonight-learn-about-citys-new-snow-plan-at-open-house-on-beacon-hill/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/tonight-learn-about-citys-new-snow-plan-at-open-house-on-beacon-hill/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:00:01 +0000 Editor http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=17654 The city recently announced the completion of a “comprehensive effort to revamp and upgrade its winter storm readiness and response plan,” including which streets will be the highest priority to plow, and in southeast Seattle, Rainier Avenue South is it (see dark green lines in map below). The second south-end priority would be plowing one [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/tonight-learn-about-citys-new-snow-plan-at-open-house-on-beacon-hill/feed/ 5 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-the-mayor-to-his-face-114/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-the-mayor-to-his-face-114/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:00:00 +0000 admin http://docommunications.com/test/?p=3278 Mayor Greg Nickels invites Seattle residents to tell him and his department heads just how bad they @#$%-ed up last month in allowing the city to become paralyzed by a little bit of snow and ice. Good thing it was just Mother Nature and not a terrorist attack. Who needs a dirty bomb when you’ve [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-the-mayor-to-his-face-114/feed/ 3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-your-mother-may-not-live-here-but-you-do-pay-taxes/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-your-mother-may-not-live-here-but-you-do-pay-taxes/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +0000 admin http://docommunications.com/test/?p=3232 In a Bushian effort to claim “mission accomplished” before the event is even over, the Mayor gave the city a “B” for effort nearly two weeks ago, even as garbage continues to litter south-end streets more than three weeks after some SPU customers last had their trash picked up. So it’s not surprising that there [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/trash-talk-your-mother-may-not-live-here-but-you-do-pay-taxes/feed/ 4 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-snowpocalypse-08/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-snowpocalypse-08/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:45:00 +0000 admin http://docommunications.com/test/?p=3190 Rainier Valley neighbor and faithful reader Anne-Marie Eitreim spotted this one-horse open sleigh on Wilson Avenue South in the Seward Park/Columbia City area yesterday. What fun! Thanks, Anne-Marie! Taejon Park on Beacon Hill is named in honor of Seattle’s South Korean sister city. The park features a traditional Korean pavilion and views of Mount Rainier. [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/south-end-scenes-snowpocalypse-08/feed/ 3 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/snowpocalypse-08-road-conditions-across-the-valley-ugly/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/snowpocalypse-08-road-conditions-across-the-valley-ugly/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:30:00 +0000 admin http://docommunications.com/test/?p=3187 We spent two hours traversing the valley today for photos and details of road conditions throughout the south-end, and there’s a lot to tell, if you’re into that sort of thing. If you’re not, then here’s the bottom line: It’s a hot (cold) mess out there on the roads, and unless you’ve got chains or [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/snowpocalypse-08-road-conditions-across-the-valley-ugly/feed/ 9 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/bus-bitch-%e2%80%9cbaby-it%e2%80%99s-cold-outside%e2%80%9d/ http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/bus-bitch-%e2%80%9cbaby-it%e2%80%99s-cold-outside%e2%80%9d/#comments Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:30:00 +0000 admin http://docommunications.com/test/?p=3186 Beacon Hill writer, performer and raconteur Brian McGuigan publishes his “Bus Bitch” column on a semi-regular basis (when he feels like it). Email him with your stories, tips and pictures of your bus-riding calamities. In the meantime, here’s his latest – a super useful guide to getting around in what he’s so aptly coined the [...]]]> http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/bus-bitch-%e2%80%9cbaby-it%e2%80%99s-cold-outside%e2%80%9d/feed/ 22