On Sunday (Feb. 26), a totem pole carved by the Williams family and others to commemorate native woodcarver John T. Williams will be carried in a procession from downtown to Seattle Center, where it will be ceremonially raised at its permanent home. The public is invited.
It's been a difficult week because of two shootings. Renewed application for a coal project. Smarter paving for the future? And possible health care solutions.
Once upon a time, the ideal in city zoning was thought to be a pattern in which each activity had its own place: industry beside other industries, homes by themselves, businesses all grouped into commercial centers. But we gain by the kind of mixtures we experience riding around the city.
The week's winners and losers: Rick Santorum hurt himself by admitting to engaging in, gasp, team play and compromise. Tacoma, don't you realize Seattle is proud of its plunder?