Posted Tue, Nov 23, 8:39 a.m.

The GOP failure can be summed up in two words: Dino Rossi. I think there are plenty of King County residents that could vote for a GOP candidate if the GOP were to put up someone with the quality of someone like Dan Evans. Dino Rossi was an empty shirt ...

Posted Fri, Nov 19, 12:43 p.m.

I would love to see teachers paid more, but only in exchange for a year-round schedule. Our kids will learn more and teachers will get more pay. I like the idea of the school year being run on a 4 quarter schedule, and for one quarter a year teachers would ...

Posted Thu, Oct 14, 11:16 a.m.

If Boeing is going to be held accountable for torture it should have more to do with their seat pitch and width than anything else.

Posted Fri, Oct 1, 7:47 a.m.

Why not just increase fare revenue by eliminating the ride free area in downtown Seattle?

Posted Thu, Sep 30, 2:49 p.m.

One of the key reasons that so many parents are opting to raise their kids outside Seattle is the abysmal state of the Seattle School District.

Posted Tue, Sep 28, 12:53 p.m.

How did this wind up costing $30 million?

Posted Thu, Sep 16, 9:14 a.m.

I wonder if the author is a tenured professor, and how many classes they are currently teaching at the UW.

Posted Fri, Sep 10, 7:10 a.m.

Or you can read it online for free. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/

Posted Fri, Sep 3, 9:46 a.m.

I feel sorry for any teacher who works in schools that are located in neighborhoods where families aren't traditionally strong supporters of education.

Posted Thu, Sep 2, 8:34 a.m.

Who's paying for it, and how much is it adding to the cost of the project?

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 7:57 a.m.

The capital funding levies seem to have been designed by the same kinds of people who want a suburban McMansion with 12 foot ceilings and twice as many bathrooms as people but never think about how much it costs to heat and maintain those kinds of homes. This city used ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 7:50 a.m.

The city has already destroyed the view down Pike Street to the waterfront thanks to the Convention Center. The once iconic view down Pike, with the red Farmer's Market sign beckoning you to come down for a visit, is gone now. It's buried behind a convention center that seems to ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 7:34 a.m.

"They both drown out badly needed analysis about how the transportation assets of our pavements bequeathed from yesteryear can best be used for today’s transportation needs and tomorrow’s transportation technologies. " Tomorrow's transportation technologies will mainly address how vehicles are powered, not whether or not people still want their own ...

Posted Tue, Aug 31, 7:28 a.m.

The personal automobile isn't going anywhere. How they will be powered is likely to change in the next ten to twenty years, but the idea of personal transportation is here to stay. Public transportation becomes more convenient for riders when it is faster and easier than driving, and that is ...

Posted Mon, Aug 23, 7:05 a.m.

Readers should note that the Broadway cycle track means that there will be one lane in each direction that is shared by cars, trucks, buses AND the new streetcar. In other words, the northbound streetcar will have to wait for any cars taking a right turn across the bike track ...

Posted Thu, Aug 19, 10:55 a.m.

If the GOP would run another Dan Evans, I'd vote for him (or her) in a heartbeat.

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 2:40 p.m.

"All of the professional traffic engineers who have looked at the Nickerson Road Diet issue (at least the impartial ones) have found no significant impact in their modeling." Then why change it at all if it doesn't have any impact? Why waste the money?

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 2:39 p.m.

Can't LLCs opt to be taxed like a C Corp or an S Corp, depending on what works best for the owners?

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 11:25 a.m.

But if the company profits are reinvested in the company or the workers then the overall amount of profits goes down, gluhn. Those are expenses that reduce overall profit. Reinvest before the government has a chance to take out taxes.

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 8:37 a.m.

"An income tax would raise some money and satisfy some powerful constituencies, but that is money taken out of the private economy. My company is an example of how there would be many fewer jobs created as a result." Come on, what you are really saying is that it takes ...

Posted Wed, Aug 18, 8:12 a.m.

They weren't really stolen from us, Roofus. They weren't ours to begin with. They were privately owned companies who discovered that you really can't be in the business of hauling passengers and be profitable without subsidies. Seattle bought up the privately owned streetcar lines in 1918 but converted the lines ...

Posted Wed, Aug 11, 7:38 a.m.

We need to maintain our roads, but this is not the time to be spending money on social engineering projects like road diets or on redesigning our current transportation grid. We have enough money in the transportation budget to take care of what we have, but we don't have enough ...

Posted Mon, Aug 9, 9:38 a.m.

Our skyline is the product of crass commercialism and of corporate and developer egos. Adding tenant signs wouldn't be a terrible thing and could actually promote the local businesses that drive our economy. The Microsoft sign on the top of one of Bellevue's office buildings doesn't bother me. Nor did ...

Posted Mon, Jul 26, 9:06 a.m.

The city has already spent tens of millions on improvements to Pioneer Square over the years. The problem isn't with the retailers but with the neighborhood itself. Unless the Main Street grants can get the homeless out of Occidental Park and the drug dealers off the streets and the gang ...

Posted Fri, Jun 25, 10:40 a.m.

The first time I heard one of the celebrity announcements, all I could think of was Troy McClure. "Hi, this is Troy McClure. You might remember me from such roles as 'Terror on the High Seas' and 'That Sinking Feeling.' Welcome aboard the Washington State Ferries..." You also forgot to ...

Posted Wed, Jun 23, 12:39 p.m.

It would be an interesting experiment. What kinds of businesses would thrive in places where parking is at a premium and with our existing public transportation system? Stores and restaurants in places like New York and London thrive on customers who get there by taxi, subway or foot, but for ...

Posted Wed, May 19, noon

Get rid of the ride free area downtown. Collect fare box revenue each time someone gets on the bus. If they don't pay, they walk. Reduced demand for transit in the ride free area would increase the amount of capacity that would be available in other areas. It might also ...

Posted Wed, May 19, 11:51 a.m.

I'd think that a teacher would be thrilled to show off their mastery of their area of expertise. I know that I love having my knowledge about my job challenged so I can show off how much I know about what I'm doing.

Posted Wed, Feb 17, 10:11 a.m.

And thus the Disneyfication of Pike Place Market continues.

Posted Wed, Dec 30, 10:40 a.m.

The old Food Giant felt bigger than the QFC that is there now for some reason.

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 1:47 p.m.

Think about what kids could look forward to at Seattle Center a few decades ago. The Fun Forest was packed with rides spread from Memorial Stadium to the Science Center. The Science Center had more exhibits and activities than it does now, and it didn't have the vast empty spaces, ...

Posted Mon, Dec 21, 1:20 p.m.

If you want to save Pioneer Square as a neighborhood then you need to stop thinking of it as an arts district or an entertainment and tourism mecca. It needs to be a neighborhood. The more effort you put into attracting people to the neighborhood who don't like and work ...

Posted Fri, Dec 4, 7:47 a.m.

The penalty should only be applied if the cyclist was clearly obeying traffic laws. Motorcycles always have headlights on - maybe we should require cyclists to use bright daytime lights and bright clothing to help drivers see them.

Posted Fri, Jul 17, 9:10 a.m.

"Incidentally, commenters, what difference does it make how Mr. Eyman makes his living?" I think it's informative to understand that Mr. Eyman is as much a professional politician as any elected official.

Posted Fri, Jul 17, 7:18 a.m.

Isn't it a little ironic when someone with a $300,000 mortgage is saying that the government needs to live within their means?

Posted Tue, Jan 13, 2:55 p.m.

R on Beacon Hill, the Battery Street Tunnel will still exist and will connect directly with Western and Elliott for local traffic. You can see the entrance to the new tunnel and to the Battery Street Tunnel on this mock-up from WSDOT. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/3027654349/sizes/m/in/set-72157609016191958/ Since the south end of the tunnel ...

Posted Fri, Sep 21, 11:39 a.m.

RE: Not A Logical Place for Children's: The cost of building a brand new facility on land that would need to be purchased on First Hill or South Lake Union is prohibitive for a facility that size. That would take up hundreds of millions of dollars in capital that would ...

Posted Fri, Sep 21, 11:06 a.m.

RE: You tried to heal the wrong wound: You nailed it. The problem isn't with the schools, it's with the parents and with the culture in which the kids are raised. There are Seattle schools that have outstanding WASL scores and academic success, but they are the ones where the ...

Posted Thu, Aug 30, 10:10 a.m.

RE: commenting on some of the above comments...: Providing a unique experience isn't enough. If they want to make enough money to pay their staff enough to make a living, then they have to provide an experience that audiences want at a price that audiences are willing to pay.

Posted Wed, Aug 29, 8:50 a.m.

One important statistic left out...: What are the attendance levels at the theaters like these days? How do they compare with twenty or thirty years ago? We'd have to spend $100 for the two of us to see the September Intiman production of "To Kill a Mockingbird", plus parking the ...