Jordan Royer left city government in 2007 to accept the position of vice president for external affairs in the Seattle office of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, where he currently works rep
The governor and the legislature should take an overhaul of the education bureaucracy straight to the people. And let the people have a chance to eliminate the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Belltown's history over the past 25 years suggested vitality, density, and the kind of success needed for the state's growth management plans to succeed. Now, it may be at a tipping point, in the wrong direction.
City Hall loves nightlife, bicyclists, and the "creative class." But we are also a working port, a manufacturing center, and a place where green jobs might grow. Why not make it all work?
There are new ideas being developed around a neighborhood alliance, which has an energetic executive. Online-gaming developers have already discovered the charms of the place.
The city of Seattle has been losing jobs while neighboring King County gains. And the city is resisting the kind of tighter budget practices that would help it live within its growing (yes, growing) general fund revenues.
