Stories for Nov. 12, 2010

Amid cuts, city council achieves some budget restorations

Fri, Nov 12, 2:46 p.m.

As budget chair, I found this to be the most difficult year yet, but the city and the council found ways to protect the highest priorities.

One way to remember Dave Niehaus

Fri, Nov 12, 8 a.m.

By Benjamin Lukoff

What's the name of the street running by Safeco Field?

How a new congressional district would reshape the Washington map

Fri, Nov 12, 2 a.m.

By Dick Morrill

The new district, the state's tenth, is likely to be centered on Olympia. Such redrawing of the lines would create several more logical districts.

A clean and confident production of 'Hamlet'

Fri, Nov 12, 2 a.m.

By Ben Rankin

The Seattle Shakespeare Company avoids trite staging, emphasizing the forcefulness of its characters even as they play out their weaknesses.

'Stomp' still delivers smiles, 15 years after its first U.S. tour

Fri, Nov 12, 2 a.m.

By Jean Lenihan

But the show could be more relevant if it tapped into the digital tools of the 21st Century. Maybe even cellphones, seeing as they were ringing in the audience anyway.

For tar sands developers, a long and winding road leads through the Northwest

Fri, Nov 12, 2 a.m.

By Daniel Jack Chasan

Big Oil's plans for developing Alberta's sands involve shipping huge equipment up the Columbia to Lewiston, Idaho, then by truck to the north. Environmentalists fear the plan will keep four Snake River dams operating.