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
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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
Why Portland begat 'Portlandia' and Seattle stopped being funny
Once Seattle had its own self-mocking comedy sketch show, but now it's too grown-up to be funny. Luckily, Portland's not.
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."
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.
Environment
Revenge of the wild: The owl and the terrier
When it comes to leash laws and not following them, police and park rangers aren't the only enforcers.