January 24th, 2011
I get a few newsletters in the mail and via email. They’re often the best sources for what’s going on in a neighborhood or within an organization. That can be true of the Seattle Police Guild’s Guardian newsletter, but the Guardian can also, from time to time, serve as a tool for
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Posted: January 24th, 2011 under
Civil Rights,
Public Safety.
January 14th, 2011
I just did a cool thing with Mayor McGinn. We sat around the table in the Norman B. Rice Conference Room and thanked the City staff, architects, builders and other advocates who helped shape the changes to the low-rise portion of the Multi-Family Code. This was the big, complex re-write of the
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Posted: January 14th, 2011 under
Planning and Land Use.
January 11th, 2011
Washington State Department of Transportation announced yesterday that they will propose demolishing the Western Building in Pioneer Square due concerns the building is already too structurally weak to withstand any settlement or vibrations from tunnel boring. Out of the 300-some buildings reviewed along the potential tunnel routes, it had to be the
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January 3rd, 2011
That headline makes it sound like this will be a super serious blog post about the need to end urban violence. And we should end urban violence. Also, I should lead off 2011 with some sort of serious, tone-setting blog post about the challenges in the year ahead. Instead this post is
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Posted: January 3rd, 2011 under
Random.
