Washington State Department of Transportation maintenance crews will close the Montlake Bridge this weekend, along with the westbound state Route 520 off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard and a single lane of the eastbound SR 520 off-ramp to Montlake Boulevard.
The Seattle Department of Planning and Development will hold a series of community meetings this fall to solicit public comment on the Draft City of Seattle Comprehensive Plan.
This year is a milestone in Seattle politics, and not just because of the new districts for City Council elections. The infusion of enormous wealth into Seattle’s economy has finally given Seattle big-city politics
The problems with Seattle Public Schools shifting teachers around this far into the school year and homeless people taking over long-vacant buildings were big news last week. It’s what happens when an ever-growing city is faced with ever-growing lists of needs and wants it can’t fund and problems it has no solutions for. Or at least solutions it wants to consider.
It was a homecoming of sorts for Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant on Thursday afternoon. The former economics teacher at Seattle Central College was back on campus to face off with challenger Pamela Banks in a back-and-forth District 3 debate that predominantly centered on issues facing students.
Metropolitan King County Council members heard more than two hours of testimony on Oct. 6 from a large number of Northeast Seattle residents concerned about Metro Transit cuts and route revisions proposed to begin at the start of University Link light rail service in March.
With a guaranteed three, and potentially four, new faces on the Seattle School Board this fall, the composition of the seven-seat council is sure to have a different look come November.
The upcoming Seattle City Council elections will determine the future of our neighborhoods and our remaining stock of low-income housing. It’s all on the line.
With the general election looming less than a month away, the two candidates jostling to represent District 3 on the Seattle City Council took to the stage of a packed Pigott Auditorium at Seattle University on Sunday, Oct. 4.
It’s a good thing for the environment that the Shell Oil Co. decided to discontinue its pursuit of untapped oil reserves in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea. But local environmental activists are misguided if they think their efforts in May had any impact on that decision.
With the passage of Proposition 1, the City of Seattle now has a funding mechanism that is expected to raise $45 million per year to help address overcrowding and reliability issues with Metro Transit and to add frequency to meet demand for more transit, effective Sept. 26.
Earlier in September, a coalition of some housing advocates, developer-sponsored groups and a few unions, calling itself “Growing Together,” appeared with Seattle City Councilmember Mike O’Brien and Mayor Ed Murray to express support for the mayor’s recently announced Housing Affordability and Liveability Agenda (HALA).
