How disgustingly arrogant for the city to spend millions trying to get the Sonics to stay but stick it to its citizens with these extortion enviro-marxist tactics.

Multi-use canvas bags should cost $4 at grocery stores.

Free canvas bags should be available at homeless shelters, food banks and other agencies that serve the poor (Linda's doesn't count).

YOU carry on.

That would be ... prudent.

Exactly. You hit the nail on the head, friend. Congratulations...when it comes to this matter, you're one of the few sane individuals in our fine city.

It's easy enough for car-centric people to keep a bunch of eco-friendly natural hemp totes tucked in their trunks for a quick trip to the grocery store. When I'm walking home from work, I generally don't have room in my coat for the one or two or three cloth bags it would take to bring home dinner, niceties and necessities.

Guess who's on KUOW tonight?

I think checkers are the ones who will "pay" the most for this.

Just ban the plastic bags outright, don't charge for paper bags, and continue to promote reusable bags Paper bags are highly "reusable," btw, and hold about 10 times as much as the plastic ones.

But let's not start celebrating yet.

Wow, it does feel good to say it. It is no wonder why you Nazis say it all the time.

Will in Seattle @5: I didn't know this, but Safeway apparently gives a $0.03 refund for reusing plastic bags, for each bag! I mean, its not like cans back in Michigan where, if you were an industrious child, you could gather up all the cans in your neighborhood and buy yourself a CD, a couple movie tickets, a new baseball glove, or save up for something more. But, it is something.

Notice the comments are, oh, 20 to one against you?

Does that bother you at all, or does it only make you more smug and arrogant.

The bag fee is counterproductive, period.

We don't need smug, somewhat dim reporters for free weekly newspapers telling us how to live. At least that dude over at the real newspaper understands his city.

Carry on, my ass.

Some of us have busy schedules.

No, it isn't, and, no, they don't. You get to vote for representatives who get to enact laws and taxes. If you don't like what they do in office, you can vote against them in the next election. Of course, since a plastic bag fee is trivial, not one of you whiners is going to vote against any city council member for supporting the fee.

And that's where you get to the crux of all of this whining. No one cares about this issue enough to punish politicians for it. It will happen and you will suck it up.

I've been using re-usable shopping bags for years now and I think it's hilarious (and shocking) at how utterly pissed off you people are about your precious plastic bags.

Stick them over your head and suffocate you sacks of shit.

Oh, and ECB rules. All you haters try doing her job for one day and then say what you will.

What Erika said.

Really? It seems like a pretty easy job. Mix in some phony, manufactured outrage, throw in some excessive exclamation use, a little finger-wagging enviromental nannyism and stir.

I've seen message board trolls work harder.

- reposting tediously long stories from feminist magazines on Slog
- never leaving Capitol Hill
- bitching and moaning

Fuck you, hater!

It is really no problem to keep a bag or two in one's briefcase or backpack if one usually stops at the store on the way home. For those of you who are grieving the loss of your free garbage/dog poop bags: given that everything has a cost, why should the general population of consumers fund your free bags?

I'm not against these bag reforms, but I've also said this before: the libs and the left nibble about the fringes on things like this, and meanwhile, on the well-funded right:

http://www.truthout.org/article/vicious-ideologue-renews-attack-social-security

One bill-yun doll-ars...