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
City Council found itself faced with tunnel concerns from the social-services providers that council members have long favored. Will everything in Seattle be sucked into the vortex of tunnel debate?
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.
Rossi-Murray: Very close. Heard that before here? Ballot measures statewide are seeing lots of no votes, but the big money won on I-1107, repealing soda taxes. And Seattle Public Schools' levy measure was winning handily.
Media Roundup: Osama bin Laden aside, finances dominate the public agenda.
