April 30th, 2009
Russ Zabel, the great reporter for the Queen Anne/Magnolia News, passed away April 12. In these days when major print media is "contracting" (that's what the economists call it, but most of it just call it going bankrupt), I've found the smaller neighborhood newspapers in Seattle to be more important than ever.
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Posted: April 30th, 2009 under
Memorials,
Neighborhoods.
April 30th, 2009
If you sneeze or cough, cover up. Wash your hands. If you're sick, stay home. And wash your hands. I'm on the Board of Health. That makes me almost a doctor. Go wash your hands. If you want advice from people who went to school to learn how to keep us all
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April 27th, 2009
Hello from the American Planning Association conference in Minneapolis! I'm here as a presenter with the Seattle Planning Commission, Puget Sound Regional Council and Port of Seattle to talk about Seattle-area efforts to save blue collar jobs. The panel discussion was this morning. I think it went well. No one walked out
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April 13th, 2009
This has been a somewhat painful, but instructive few days with regard to the budget briefings by the Mayor's staff. I wasn't part of the small team in the meetings this past week, but I wasn't against the idea of doing advance, small-group discussions with the Mayor's staff about their initial ideas
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Posted: April 13th, 2009 under
Budget and Economic Development.
Tags:
Budget
April 9th, 2009
Here's a BIG problem that needs to be fixed before light rail starts running in July. At the City Council Transportation Committee meeting this week Metro staff said that if you pay cash for your trip on Metro your transfer won't be good when you get off the bus and step onto
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Posted: April 9th, 2009 under
Transportation.
Tags:
Metro,
Sound Transit
