Seattle & King County
Life after Lowe's: How to fix Southeast Seattle's "hardware desert"
Transit-driven development by Mount Baker Station has many pitfalls - and two potential silver linings.
Eric Scigliano
Eric Scigliano's reporting on social and environmental issues for The Weekly (later Seattle Weekly) won Livingston, Kennedy, American Association for the Advancement of Scie
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Seattle & King County
Think tank to Seattle: Forget redeveloping Rainier Beach. Try a little TLC.
When Mayor Murray announced two weeks ago that a delegation from the renowned Urban Land Institute (ULI) would visit and
Politics
A jail with a view proposed for Seattle's Beacon Hill
King County appears to favor a plan to move its juvenile detention facility to the landmark PacMed tower, former home of Amazon, in the south Seattle neighborhood. "Here we go again," says a neighborhood leader. "We're getting dumped on."
Culture
A new world in South King County
Welcome to Kent, frontline for the forces transforming America's suburbs: poverty and hardship, global diversity, and exciting new energy and innovation.
Tech
How Sound Transit could build a promised station for SE Seattle
The money is there, because of a budget surplus. Even though ST originally planned for the Graham Street station, don't count on the agency doing what it should.