Many thanks to
Raymond Gastil
and
Rebecca Rickabaugh
some of our many supporters.
ALL MEMBERS »
Chapter 4: During May, Seattle City Council members listened to hours of public comment on how tax dollars should be allocated by the 2009-10 budget. Now what happens? Not much until autumn — then a flurry of activity.
READ MORE | 1 COMMENTSSeattle Mayor Greg Nickels has mounted a new national stage, to go along with his climate-change leadership role. This one is about metropolitan regionalism. The mayor is joining a national crusade by the Brookings Institution, hoping to steer more and wiser funding to American metropolitan regions. The key argument, not exactly a new one, is that cities generate most American wealth and innovations, so the rural-oriented Congress ought to get on board.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWAlmost ready: Northwest Progressive takes an exclusive sneak peak at the not-yet-opened Link Light Rail system. ... Almost November: SurveyUSA and Rasmussen both have new polls out showing Gov. Chris Gregoire leading GOP challenger Dino Rossi. Darryl at Horse's Ass breaks it down for the Left, while Eric Earling at Sound Politics does it from the Right. ...
READ MORE | COMMENT NOW
A foreign tourist sees this as a place where citizens and the bureaucracy have in many ways abandoned each other, resulting in individualism, survivalism, and capitalism.
READ MORE | 16 COMMENTS
Follow us on Twitter. |
Like us on Facebook. |
Subscribe to our RSS Feeds. |
Get our Daily Email Newsletter. |
Crosscut.com is a production of Crosscut Public Media
Suite 330
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 382-6137
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feeds