Joe Copeland is the former senior editor for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi
The chef of Seattle's Crush restaurant came home with the Best Chef Northwest award from the James Beard Foundation. Thus ends the annual competition in which Portland was bragging about finally having more nominees than Seattle.
Mayor McGinn makes his case for changing the planned Highway 520 bridge replacement to accommodate a possible light-rail line from the start. That proposal faces rough going in a region tired of hearing Seattle's concerns.
The venerated Seattle peace activist, who helped build housing for survivors of the bomb, lives on past his death in 2001.
In his state of the city speech, Mayor Mike McGinn focused on youth and schools, transportation (including light-rail expansion and concerns about the cost of a waterfront tunnel), the city's economic future, and broadband. The speech drew mixed reviews from city council.
Bellingham appealed NOAA's plan for moving its Pacific research fleet to the Oregon coast. Now, Seattle hopes NOAA will look at two alternatives to the Lake Union site the agency has rejected.
