The whole city is chuckling about the no-financing-yet proposal for a $1 billion sports-and-entertainment complex floated yesterday by ex Sonic Fred Brown and public relations guy Dave Bean. But wait. There may be some last laughs in this story.
The cure-du-jour for skyrocketing housing prices, at least in Seattle City Hall, is something called inclusionary zoning, or IZ. It's in effect in more than 300 urban areas in the country. Typically IZ requires residential developers to include a percentage of affordable housing in new projects. Doe
An important organization in Seattle, the Alliance for Education, has announced changes in the way it will be distributing money [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/356767_alliance28.html]. There will now be more targeting and accountability, and more meshing with the district's emerging strategic
Years of planning and public relations work fail to hold the Center's place in the queue for capital improvements. Will two more years of waiting make things worse?
On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Seven] conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include atto
