One Million Is the Number of Bike Trips Made Over the Fremont Bridge in 2014: An indication that cycling rates are rising is found in the fact that there were one million bike trips taken over Fremont Bridge this year. That's nearly 75,000 more trips than 2013. Cycling, like walking, is good for your body.


Rents in the Region Only Knew How to Rise by a Lot in 2014: In 2013, average rent in King and Snohomish counties rose by 6.5 percent. This year, it rose by an astounding 8 percent. The key fact is that the increase was four times the rate of inflation. The post does not, however, mention if wages increased or were flat in 2014. An apartment in Seattle's downtown area costs almost twice as much as a one-bedroom apartment Renton.


Home Prices in Seattle Actually Fell by a Tiny Bit in October: But for the year as a whole, home prices rose by 6.2 percent. That's a substantial increase, but not enough to reach the dizzying level of home prices in the year before the crash, 2007. Many homes in our town are still 20 percent below their peak in 2007.

The Wildrose Turns 30: The Capitol Hill bar has been serving "lesbians and their friends" since 1984—the year modern hiphop was born.




The Top 1 Percent of Americans Own 50% of all Mutual Funds and Stocks: What is more amazing than this fact is that the top 10 percent of Americans own 90 percent of all stocks and mutual funds. The rest not only own just 9 percent of such assets but own 74 percent of all debts. Last week, the Dow Jones Index broke a record by passing 18000.


Authorities do not expect to find survivors in the AirAsia crash.
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  • Authorities do not expect to find survivors in the AirAsia crash.
Bodies From the AirAsia Crash are Finally Appearing: The mystery of what happened to AirAsia Flight 8501, which lost contact with humanity while flying over the Java Sea on Saturday, is clearing. The dead and their things are appearing. This will be no Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The living will know their dead.


Gunfire Heard Near the Palace of Gambia's President: The president of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, is, however, reported not be in the palace or the country. Jammeh has been in power since 1994, and it appears he has no intention of giving up his post.


Scientists Confirm that Fins are Related to Hands: After years of suspecting a deep connection between hands and fins, but failing to find hard evidence for this connection, scientists have finally located the link between the two by way of a "non-model fish."