Opinion

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council member Bruce Harrell's E-Newsletter "Positive Focus.")

You may have tuned in to the Energy and Technology Committee meeting of April 1, 2009, and heard the…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin' s newsletter "Making it Work.")

On Monday, May 11, the council committee of the whole on economic recovery approved a resolution…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin' s newsletter "Making it Work.")

On April 13, the council approved an ordinance moving forward $24.2 million to begin construction on…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council member Nick Licata's newsletter "Urban Politics.")

In the wake of reports about the city’s snow response, the Seattle City Council commissioned a study of the…MORE

(Editor's note: this article has been edited to reflect Seattle City Council action at its April 27 meeting of the whole.)

The openness President Obama is bringing to D.C. hasn’t reached a Seattle still in its Bush era, complete with…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council member Tim Burgess' newsletter "City View.")

Stopping Youth Violence

Last week I sat down with four young people in a medical school classroom at the…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appear originally in Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin's newsletter "Making it Work.")

The Seattle City Council embraces the goal of open, transparent, and accessible government. All of our…MORE

(Editor's note: This article appears originally in council member Nick Licata's Urban Politics newsletter.)

Sometimes it's the little things that make me glad to be a public servant.

It was approaching eight o'clock in the evening…MORE

The dysfunctional idiocy known as the “tunnel option” for the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement costs too much, provides less traffic capacity than a new viaduct WHILE costing more, and reduces access to the downtown core - and thus both damages…MORE

(Editor's note: The following article appears originally in Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin's newsletter "Making it Work.")

Seattle is about to embark on a flurry of legislation to invest in economic recovery projects,…MORE