A conversation with Seattle
With 98,328 ballots counted (and 96,445 on hand to be counted, plus whatever continue to trickle in through the mail), Ed Murray and Mike McGinn have established clear leads over the rest of the field. Continue reading McGinn and Murray to Battle for November’s Mayoral Title
In these illustrations, the stitch to fix the scar is about as wide as the waterfront itself, and wider at parts. Tourists will share those remarkably spacious lanes with freight traffic delivering goods to the city. Continue reading A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Waterfront
Mayoral candidate Peter Steinbrueck appeared Monday night, without fanfare, on the 73rd floor of the Columbia Center, at the Sky View Observatory, where he was introducing himself to guests with the casual remark that “I’m running for mayor.” Continue reading In Race with McGinn & Murray, Citizen Steinbrueck Starts Throwing Elbows
But Boeing’s support — and that of heavyweights the Association of Washington Business and Washington Roundtable — for a $9.5-billion transportation package was not enough for Washington’s Senate Republicans, who were against a 10-cent gas tax increase (phased in over five years, upped two cents annually). Continue reading The Divorce: Washington State Republicans vs. Big Business & Boeing
Not so long ago, the park’s large shoreline was shut off from the park by a blackberry-strangled, rusty chain-link fence. And, as Madison Park Blogger noted, the neighbors of that park liked it that way. Continue reading Seattle Parks Adds Green Space, Views to Maple Leaf & Madison Park
Seattle police are, this morning, on the hunt for a woman who hit a 24-year-old man with her car, near the 9400 block of 11th Avenue Southwest in West Seattle. Police say it was intentional, and they know who she is. A little over a week ago, West Seattle Greenways co-founder Jake Vanderplas was also the victim of an intentional hit-and-run. Continue reading Will Road Rage in Sleepy West Seattle Fuel Drive for Street Safety?
U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has joined senatorial forces with Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Angus King (I-ME) to introduce a bill they’re calling a “21st Century Glass-Steagall Act,” an updating of the Banking Act of 1933 (Glass-Steagall), which was gradually rendered toothless during the go-go 1980s and 1990s, and repealed in 1999. Continue reading An Indomitable Maria Cantwell is Back with a Glass-Steagall Posse