
Social services come barreling into the tunnel
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?
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?
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