Op-Ed: The Seattle Police Department Has an Efficiency Problem ( www.theurbanist.org )
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The survey of 1,000 Seattle voters, conducted by EMC Research in December, polled respondents on a hypothetical renewal measure for Move Seattle, a nine-year $930 million levy which funds about 30% of SDOT’s budget and expires at the end of the year. Pollsters asked about a $1.2 billion version, essentially the same amount as...
Blue Angels: patriotic celebration of America that’s fun for the whole family, or noise-polluting, climate-change-worsening, outdated abomination of the petro-military-industrial complex?
House Bill 2252, sponsored by Representative Mark Klicker (R-16, Walla Walla), would require every city and town in the state to permit the operation of a neighborhood cafe in a residential zone, regardless of whether the zone allows other business uses. Under a substitute version of the bill approved Friday, as long as business...