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The Rainier Val­ley His­tor­i­cal Soci­ety hosts a rare Open House this Fri­day evening, Novem­ber 7th between 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., dur­ing Colum­bia City’s monthly Beat­Walk event. Check out the RVHS’s new win­dow dis­play hon­or­ing politi­cians with Rainier Val­ley roots.

From Direc­tor Mikala Woodward’s arti­cle, “The

South­east Seat­tle res­i­dents Lee and Sachi LeFever make fan­tas­tic lit­tle videos that make it easy to under­stand com­pli­cated ideas.

What makes these films so dis­arm­ing? Well, they’re paper cut-outs ani­mated over a white­board, that’s what! And there’s Lee’s hint of North Car­olina on the ter­rific voice-overs.

But all this is pre­lude. “We made Con­tinue reading

Two weeks back, local blog­ger John Hoole pub­lished a long, illu­mi­nat­ing piece on his The Hoole Intel­li­gence Report called “NIM­BYs of the fight­ing South­east!” If you’re even think­ing about get­ting involved in the com­mu­nity or want to under­stand the con­tours of Colum­bia City/Southeast Seat­tle neigh­bor­hood activism, this is a must-read.

And it’s going to get in front of a few more eye­balls now. Crosscut.com has picked up “NIM­BYs of the fight­ing South­east!” (adding the sub­ti­tle, “How an obsessed fac­tion of res­i­dents dri­ves the pol­i­tics of an entire Seat­tle neigh­bor­hood”) and has it fea­tured on… Con­tinue reading