February 26th, 2009
I attended the annual State of Downtown breakfast hosted by the Downtown Seattle Association a couple of mornings ago. The room at the Convention Center was jam packed with business people sharing glum awe over the cliff the economy had driven over. Maybe that's why a page of the DSA 2009 State
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Posted: February 26th, 2009 under
Budget and Economic Development.
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February 22nd, 2009
In talking on the the Sunday editorial page about the federal stimulus package and the Obama Administration's willingness to focus on cities starved in the Bush era, Jim Vesely writes: "At the end of the day, cities are whole and not accumulations of individual neighborhoods." This may be the toughest concept to
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Posted: February 22nd, 2009 under
Neighborhoods.
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Neighborhoods
February 11th, 2009
One of the things I sometimes have trouble with is giving short answers. Another reason the Land Use Committee is great for me. There are no short answers when it comes to land use. People have been asking me if I support HB 1490 and I do my usual, "Well, I like
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February 5th, 2009
Deep. That's the upshot from an early estimate we received this morning in the Council's Finance & Budget Committee. When we wrapped up the budget building process for 2009-2010 in November of last year, we had closed a $19 million budget gap that had opened between the Mayor finalizing his proposed budget
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