The great rookie debate
Posted Thu, Sep 10, 10:03 p.m.
The first face-off of Seattle's mayoral candidates offered contrasts, but no aha! moments.
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September 10, 2009: Headlines
Mercer Plan has a new price tag: $290 million
Posted Thu, Sep 10, 6 a.m.
For the first time, cost estimates for the western part, phase II, have surfaced. Adding $100 million to a project that is already short of funding is starting to look like a kind of farewell fling from Mayor Nickels. A critic traces all the funding maneuvers.
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Sea rise and climate change: let's do the science
Posted Thu, Sep 10, 6 a.m.
The sea is rising, and may go up about a foot in the next 100 years in Puget Sound. That's serious, but much less alarming than the usual figures cited.
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