Week in Review

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Touchstone, one of the Seattle area's busiest developers, has acquired another South Lake Union block, dominated by the Troy Laundry building, a former commercial laundry built in 1927 and used mostly for storage since The Seattle Times bought it in 1985.  The building's brick and terra-cotta façade is a historic landmark and must be integrated into any new development.  Nearby, Vulcan Development, the company of Microsoft founder and sci-fi fan Paul Allen, announced that it has partnered with ECOtality to bring 24 electric vehicle charging stations to the neighborhood.   Mayor McGinn said of charging stations: "We'll do all we can to make sure Seattle is eco-ready."  Meanwhile, the US Energy Information Administration was reporting that the top two sources of electricity in the US are coal and gas.


Washington state was reported to lead the nation in parents opting out of vaccinating their children.  A cat in Prineville, OR was diagnosed with bubonic plague, the fourth case reported in Oregon among people and animals since January of last year.  In northeastern Washington, Authorities were trying to track a pack of dogs that has killed about 100 animals in nighttime forays - attacks that have claimed goats and a llama and raised alarm that people could be targeted.  Crows were reported to be attacking cops in the parking lot of the Everett Police Department's north precinct station. Tippi Hedren, the actress attacked by birds in the phone booth in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, appeared for fans at a Sheraton in New Jersey.