Equity
UW gets a president on a discount; lawmakers think about tax breaks
Media Roundup: Osama bin Laden aside, finances dominate the public agenda.
Joe Copeland
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
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Politics
Could Seattle have a fighting shot at keeping its NOAA ships?
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.
Seattle & King County
McGinn draws a firm line about the waterfront tunnel
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.
Politics
Former P-I exec takes national freedom of information post
Ken Bunting has been named as the first full-time executive director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, based at the University of Missouri's renowned journalism school.
Politics
New round of election results
The first post-Election Day round of ballot counting brought only minor narrowing of some races across Seattle. In the Seattle