The recent launch of the See It, Send It campaign by the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau Street Scene Task Force has generated a new run of debate over Seattle’s attitudes and responses to disorder Downtown. “Disorder” takes many forms depending upon your threshold. So far the campaign has forwarded eight (as of this afternoon) [...]
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October 2, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Budget thoughts.
How best to turn Seattle’s always-limited resources into efficient services over the next two years? That’s the question my Council colleagues and I deal with this fall as we examine the 2013-2014 proposed City budget. The process started for City Council last Monday. In a rare Seattle moment of required protocol, Councilmember Harrell and I [...]
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September 18, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Medical Marijuana Zoning
“They’re popping up like Starbucks!” That was the take from a patient in the waiting area of one of the dozen medical marijuana shops I surveyed the Monday of Labor Day weekend. (And, no, “surveyed” does not mean “patronized.”) Councilmember Nick Licata and I have been working with staff from the city’s Department of [...]
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August 31, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
ALERT: A happy visitor!
I know we have a lot of happy visitors to Seattle and the Northwest, but sometimes I lose sight of that when reading emails from someone who received a parking ticket while here or who felt unsafe in some part of town. Once in a blue moon (literally right now), I get an email from [...]
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August 1, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Trash talks.
It’s finally Seattle summer – yet it’s hard to focus on our brief period of blue skies when our sense of smell, not to mention our community hygiene, is challenged by piles of trash (and accompanying urban wildlife) in alleyways in Chinatown and overflowing garbage cans in West, South, and Southwest Seattle. Employees of Waste [...]
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July 9, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Just a sample of the more than 4,000
The proposal for a new basketball arena has launched many thousand emails to councilmembers as of early July and I know there will be many more to come. While the emails break down into the “for” and “against” camp, they also split into the “click-and-send campaign” variety of few words and the “took some time [...]
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July 6, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Mid-point check-in
Somehow we got into July and I’m not sure how that happened. At the top of this year the Council went through our annual agenda priorities exercise which yielded this 2012 Action Agenda and I thought, “Great. We finished this relatively quickly at the start of the year. Now we have the year ahead of [...]
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June 20, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Live from downtown Vancouver, WA
Hello from the annual meeting of the Association of Washington Cities. This year’s conference, my first as a board member from Seattle, happens at the Red Lion in Vancouver, WA. This is the big conference for elected officials and administrators from cities and towns all over the Evergreen State. Meetings started Tuesday and last through [...]
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May 18, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Ocean Beauty – a big fish story
When you think of the types of business sectors we have in Seattle it’s easy to mentally jump to jets, coffee and software. But when you think about an icon for the Northwest, few would challenge the salmon as our region’s reigning champion symbol. Our local economy and our dinner tables have long benefited from [...]
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May 16, 2012January 6, 2023News Releases
Career pathways to skip the skills mismatch
We had two great presentations in the Council’s Economic Resiliency & Regional Relations Committee yesterday on current job trends and the better coordination under way in the Seattle area to prep people to be successful competing in the sectors that are hiring. Matt Houghton from the City’s Office of Economic development started off breaking down [...]