The first reaction to the lawsuit against the federal health care act by Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna and other Republican AGs was that they had no chance of winning. Now, some experts suggest the arguments have at least some chance of swaying the U.S. Supreme Court.
Local governments do it all the time: start popular new projects while ignoring upkeep. This time, Seattle and King County took it to the point of shutting down South Park's vital bridge, shafting a neighborhood that lacks political clout.
The city let the spending flow during good times, playing generous with everything. Now, the revenue has slowed and the challenges are huge. A good place to start with cuts is at the top, where the big salaries are.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct project runs through a part of today's SoDo district, an area radically transformed by early development of Seattle. The conclusion of a two-part series examines how the viaduct and the 520 bridge projects will create engineering problems and rich opportunities to learn about
The 520 bridge expansion crosses an Indian burial ground, and the Viaduct replacement in SoDo has dug up artifacts from early boom-town Seattle. Here's a two-part preview of what we could learn from our two transportation mega-projects, and some of the cultural challenges they face.
