It looked like a close call when the Seattle City Council voted 5-4 in May to withhold a street vacation essential to construction of a third SODO sports arena. But Seattle City Hall might be the only place where the arena vote is close. The vote...
Manufacturing, hip? You don’t often see those two words next to one another. And you would not see them here except for the Broadway smash, Hamilton, celebrating our most unsung founding father, Alexander Hamilton – the illegitimate immigrant who left a big footprint, by working...
The Governor’s new plan to ease traffic congestion on Interstate 405 was announced February 16 with an odd caveat from Jeff Merrill, president of the Washington State Patrol Troopers Association. Merrill warned that in some key spots the new 405 plan fails to provide enough...
If you want to bring back shop class, Randy Dorn is your guy. As the elected Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction, he helped launch the Core Plus learning initiative based on industry-validated career skills. For this, Dorn should be remembered fondly by thousands of students,...
Topic? SODO traffic. Location? Corner of 1stAvenue South and Edgar Martinez Way. A TV news crew was conducting the interview when a cargo truck sideswiped a car in a nearby lane, forcing the car up over the curb and across the sidewalk where one tire...
Less volume and more listening might help Seattle learn something from the kayactivist kerfuffle over Arctic Drilling. Contrary to the commercial jetliner fly-in by out-of-town activists to portray Seattle as a portal to climate change perdition, our region has a very good track record for green...
Nordstrom. The Boeing Company. The UW Athletic Department. The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Republican Party. The Democratic Party. Former Governor Chris Gregoire. Current Governor Jay Inslee. Former US Senator Brock Adams. These are among the luminaries in our universe who found reasons over the...
During Seattle’s debate about the minimum wage, the University of Washington published a report that included compelling data that never seeped through the sloganeering. In 2012, according to state records cited by the UW report, 75% of all Seattle employers had fewer than 10 workers each....
“Education” usually ranks high on lists of what’s wrong with America. And, in some ways, that’s just plain dumb. The nation is still home to good kids, motivated teachers and successful instructional programs. All three are part of a smart new program in the State of...