As the eminent Stranger newspaper notes, Seattle City Councilmember Jean Godden believes "63% of Seattle residents are like birthers".
I recall her colleague Sally Bagshaw stating on the same subject "virtually every lawyer in Seattle believes the State financial responsibility clause is unenforceable".
Go figure!
Though what the Tea Party will become is still up in the air, me thinks this particular 'teabagger' doth protest too much.
Former Tacoma News Tribune food critic Ed Murrieta writes on the irony of receiving food stamps in order to dine.
Dominic Holden opines on the proposed Viaduct Tunnel, in my opinion framing the current issues exactly right on this tough subject, and **moving** target.
I lived around the block from Conlin in the mid 90's, leading up to his election sitting with him on the Madrona Council.
He is a good guy, but I fear he's doing a bit of an Obama on this issue - supporting the downtown Seattle 'business' folks with good intent, just like Obama supported the folks who Enron'd the mortgage market with enough foresight to short their own scam.
FWIW, the public money folks HQ'd in Downtown Seattle are why Olympia hates Seattle, and rightfully so.
Great piece Dominic, and I hope Conlin is using his vacation time to realize this isn't a situation with a completely positive outcome.
This will blow your mind, if you have the strength to read it through.
Here's a very well thought out and written piece on the current status of light rail through the upscale (and becoming less conservative) Seattle suburb of Bellevue. Its only lack is an awareness of the regional prevalence of the general problems, and as such, I'd go a bit farther.
Most pointedly, overruns on the I-90 crossing can be safely expected - as such it is necessary that the 520 Bridge continue to be a 'competitive' option for light rail - as the citizens of the Montlake neighborhood are calling for.
The best explanation of the derivatives market I've read yet.
If you wish to comment on the controversial 520 bridge replacement over Lake Washington today is the deadline. Here are my comments:
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I am writing to comment on the 520 Bridge Design Process via the Washington Department of Transportation Environmental Review. Though I am no longer a citizen of King County I likely can claim ‘senior’ status as a citizen involved in this process – having originally suggested the general approach in option K/L, the additional crossing of the Montlake Cut, in 1988 . Additionally, during the time the project formally got started I served as Secretary of the Madrona Community Council. I am also a 1990 Honors graduate from the University of Washington, in the field of Economics. My senior’s thesis was a labor approach to economic development and education(1988), and I have also significantly studied Urban Planning and other public fields. Prior to the incidents referenced below I was employed with King County in the field of Geographic Information Systems – where I grunted out the first parcel database for the unincorporated County – and the first growth management boundaries.
My comments today are solely my own, though hopefully I do have some remaining indirect connection with many communities in King County, including the Eastside, where I have worked often in both the public and private sectors. I would also hope to have at least some remaining respect among the members of my former profession, as well as other allied arts and sciences
In a strange bit of repeating history the Seattle City Council is getting ready to unconstitutionally harass panhandlers downtown with a very vague 'aggressive panhandling' ordinance, at the request of downtown 'business' groups. It appears that the vast majority of Seattle Citizens understand what this is about, as the Stranger reports.
Curiously, when this happened before these same folks were also in need of a bailout for their own mistakes. Last time they did get it, this time I don't think they will be so lucky with their own (constitutionally) 'aggressive' solicitation.