November 23rd, 2010
Last Friday afternoon the Clark office slipped out of City Hall and over to the Seattle Animal Shelter (2061 15th Ave. W. in the Interbay neighborhood just a mile south of the Ballard Bridge, 386-PETS, www.seattle.gov/animalshelter) for a couple of hours of volunteering. We've volunteered as a team a couple of times
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Posted: November 23rd, 2010 under
Random.
November 12th, 2010
Seattle Public Schools took a brave and much-needed step Tuesday with the release of report cards for each of our public schools. I call it brave simply because the report card is clear that we – and we are all in this together – under-perform in far too many schools. The onslaught
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Posted: November 12th, 2010 under
Education.
November 10th, 2010
OK, it’s not my Alden Mason, it’s our Alden Mason. It belongs to all us City Light ratepayers. For decades the City of Seattle has spent 1% of the cost of capital projects on art. The program improves the look of things like substations in neighborhoods and makes it possible for our
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Posted: November 10th, 2010 under
Memorials,
Random.
November 4th, 2010
With the vote tallies for the state-wide initiatives clear we can now get down to building the final 2011 City of Seattle budget. The Mayor delivered his budget proposal Sept. 27, but it wasn’t until Wednesday morning that we really knew how much money we would have next year. Revenues (sales tax
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Posted: November 4th, 2010 under
Budget and Economic Development.