Last week I had the chance to participate in one more reminder about how generous this community is. The food bank in the Uptown neighborhood – in the shadow of Seattle Center – had a ceremony to celebrate its successful reopening, after financial woes forced it to close last November. Sacred Heart of Jesus, a [...]
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March 6, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
University District of Downtown
Seattle is the proud home of the University of Washington, and also hosts Seattle University on First Hill and Seattle Pacific University on the north slope of Queen Anne, as well as a great set of community colleges. And there is also the campus of Antioch University Seattle at 6th and Battery near South Lake [...]
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March 1, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
City Food Policy Workshops
My staff and I have been working on issues around local food since we secured approval of the Local Food Action Initiative in 2008. I am very happy that Mayor McGinn and the entire City Council have given great support to this work, and we have completed a large number of significant accomplishments on this [...]
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February 28, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Sound Transit Station Naming Policy
On Thursday, February 23, the Sound Transit Board formally adopted a policy for naming stations and other Sound Transit facilities. Before this, the naming process followed a design manual, but there was no Board policy. This has become a problem as Sound Transit builds stations where there might be some controversy about the name, [...]
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February 24, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Council Sets 2012 Priorities
Council President Sally Clark has led us through a priority setting process for 2012, and the Council has identified an ambitious agenda of thirty initiatives, organized in five core priority areas. We will all have involvement in the entire list in the course of the year. Each Councilmember will lead on certain issues, usually those [...]
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February 21, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Food Policy Council Sets 2012 Strategy
At its February 10 meeting, the Regional Food Policy Council (RFPC) agreed to the recommendations of its Steering Committee for an action agenda for 2012. The RFPC, which is entering its second year, worked during its first year to define its mission and scope of work and to understand the way in which the [...]
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February 16, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Delivering on Our 2011 Priorities
During my four years as President, I led the Council through a priority setting exercise each year, designed to identify the core issues to focus on for the year. Council President Clark plans to continue this plan. In 2011, Councilmembers identified 17 priorities. Here’s a report on how I think we did, from one to [...]
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February 14, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Salish Sea Trading Cooperative
Seattle is blessed by hosting a wide range of creative and committed individuals and groups who are willing to push the envelope of what can be done to create a more sustainable City. Think carrying freight on sailing ships is no longer practical? Meet Ballard’s Salish Sea Trading Cooperative. The Salish Sea Trading Cooperative relies [...]
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February 8, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Helping Business Become More Sustainable
Seattle has a mission to become more sustainable, and we cannot attain that goal unless we work with our business community. Fortunately, much of that community is in harmony with Seattle’s sustainability values, and we have forged many good partnerships. We offer so many great services to help businesses, in fact, that it has become [...]
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February 7, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Saving Central Cinema
Recessions are tough times to run a business, but they can also unleash entrepreneurial energy and creativity. The worst thing that government can do – all of the time, but especially in hard economic times – is shut down new ideas because ‘we don’t do things that way’. [...]