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The Killing

That headline makes it sound like this will be a super serious blog post about the need to end urban violence.  And we should end urban violence.  Also, I should lead off 2011 with some sort of serious, tone-setting blog post about the challenges in the year ahead. Instead this post is about television. About [...]

No vaping inside the bar

What’s vaping, you ask? That’s the lingo for users of electronic cigarettes.  Instead of smoking users of e-cigarettes vape. At the King County Board of Health meeting today we voted to regulate this new world of electronic cigarettes much like we regulate the world of old-fashioned cigarettes.  No selling e-cigs to minors, no distributing coupons [...]

Finished with the low-rise code

I learned a ton, we had great conversations about goals and philosophies of city development, and I think we built a great package of changes, but I’m glad to be done with the low-rise portion of the City’s Multi-Family Code.  We won’t know for a few years if we succeeded on all counts, but I [...]

Angel

Last Friday afternoon the Clark office slipped out of City Hall and over to the Seattle Animal Shelter (2061 15th Ave. W. in the Interbay neighborhood just a mile south of the Ballard Bridge, 386-PETS, www.seattle.gov/animalshelter) for a couple of hours of volunteering.  We’ve volunteered as a team a couple of times before both as [...]