Stories for December 2017

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Friday, December 29

Greater Seattle Business Association looks forward to 2018

The Greater Seattle Business Association capped off 2017 with an annual meeting where Business & Humanitarian Awards recipients were announced and local lawmakers gave an optimistic preview of the 2018 legislative session.

Durkan’s team: Despite some good people, it’s business as usual

Last month Mayor-elect Jenny Durkan announced her transition team, a 61-member body she described as “the best of Seattle”. But a closer look at the team shows that it tips heavily towards the status quo and suggests more of the same. 

Scott Kubly resigns from SDOT

The director of Seattle’s Department of Transportation has resigned after having been listed as one of six finalists for the position of city manager in Austin, Texas.

Seattle man charged with robbery and rape in Dec. 17 Madison Valley attack

A 24-year-old Seattle man accused of robbing and raping a woman at gunpoint in the East Precinct on Sunday, Dec. 17, had his first appearance in King County Superior Court on Thursday, Dec. 21.

Hillary Clinton tackles “what happened” at Paramount Theatre

Those damn emails. Not only has that been a consistent refrain of 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the year since she lost to Donald Trump, it’s also a chapter in her new bestseller “What Happened.”

Wednesday, December 20

Revisiting the Park: Youth of the late forties made trouble too

We, the proud kids of the 70-plus-years-ago era were pretty similar to today’s youth, except we were definitely more visible and focused on real life around us.

Garden Hotline: Nine steps to put your garden to bed

Many creatures in the garden go to sleep in the winter–but not your soil.

Healthy and Active: Aging with strength and weightlifting

There may not be a fountain of youth feeding Lake Washington, but you can add years to your life with muscles. Resistance training, or weightlifting, has great benefits for us as we age.

Tree Talk: From Rome to Brindisi… and on to Seattle

One day in the early 1990s, when my son was not much past ten, we were walking down a Madison Park sidewalk and he spotted a tall, columnar evergreen tree, pointed to it and said, “Look Dad, the Via Appia.”

Monday, December 11

Innovative uncle builds business brick by brick

Phil Keller is a good uncle. With 10 nieces and nephews living out of state, that’s no small feat.

A City on a Hill: Cascadia and the limits of white progressivism

“White separatist” proponents have long seen the Northwest, or parts of the Northwest, as a likely place for a secessionist, explicitly racist nation.

Outside City Hall: How new zoning formula may affect Seattle

Look out! The Washington State’s Department of Commerce just selected a private engineering and planning firm, LDC Consultants, to set new formulas that counties and cities must use to calculate how much capacity for new residential development they have under their existing zoning code. 

Seattle Soundings: Political staying power

Just after the decisive victories last week of Jenny Durkan and Teresa Mosqueda, Interim Mayor Tim Burgess released the city’s long-awaited Growth Management Plan.

Friday, December 8

Editorial: Why Net Neutrality matters

With a news cycle updating at a speed heretofore unknown, it’s understandable if what we focus on each day changes. But one of the reasons we’re able to get so much information so quickly is under dire threat.

PAWS brings kitten ambassadors

Ten minutes isn’t much time to spend with a kitten. The hope for local nonprofit PAWS is that those 10 minutes could turn into a lifetime.