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Seattle City Councilmembers Sally J. Clark, Jean Godden and Tim Burgess, Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) Executive Director Leonard Garfield, and the Hearst Corporation today announced plans to forever keep the Seattle Post-Intelligencer Globe in Seattle as a recognized historic landmark.
“We need to move forward now to immediately fix this problem. Ratepayers demand and deserve financial accountability from the utility. And they will get it,” said Councilmember Jean Godden.
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On Wednesday, Seattle City Councilmembers will announce developments in preserving a Seattle treasure, the Seattle PI Globe. Joined by leadership from MOHAI and the Hearst Corporation, Councilmembers will discuss the Globe’s future.
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The Libraries, Utilities and Center Committee, during this morning’s discussion of fraud at Seattle Public Utilities (SPU), called for an independent review of SPU’s financial practices.
As a Seattle resident, I’m proud that Seattle ranks 2nd among the most literate cities in the U.S., just behind Washington D.C. As a member of the Council’s Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology Committee, I’m proud of the City’s efforts toward increasing digital literacy rates, as well. The City’s Technology Matching Grant is one way of [...]
The First Hill Streetcar will be an important link to the regional transit system. It will connect the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, First Hill, Yesler Terrace, the Central Area, Chinatown/International District, and Pioneer Square, and will serve major employment hubs (Harborview, Swedish, and Virginia Mason medical centers), institutions of higher learning (Seattle University and Seattle [...]
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The Seattle City Council voted unanimously this afternoon to approve the Families and Education Levy Implementation and Evaluation Plan (Council Bill 117395). Through the use of performance-based contracts, competitively awarded investments and required data reporting, the Plan emphasizes accountability and results.
There has been lots of discussion lately about the best path forward on public school reform. There has even been a public airing of the frustration some Democrats feel over the slow pace of reform and their belief that teachers’...
On any given day more than 200,000 children have no place to live in the United States
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Seattle City Councilmember Jean Godden, chair of the Libraries, Utilities and Center (LUC) committee, today released ...