With developers paying the bureaucrats to review their plans, we build in incentives to accelerate approvals and keep the projects flowing. Also, Seattle's regulatory agency may have become too big and too unaccountable to protect the public interest.
FIRST, ORCHIDS: To Barlett Sher, Intiman artistic director, who won a Tony Award Sunday [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/theater/theaterspecial/16tony.html?th&emc=th] of his direction of the New York Lincoln Center revival of the 1950s Rogers-Hammerstein musical, "South Pacific." The revival won
Mayor Greg Nickels takes the stand today against the Sonics, with team owner Clay Bennett and others to follow throughout the day. Here's the live blog from the Seattle P-I [http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/sonicstrial/] and the continually updating story from The Seattle Times [http://seattletime
For one thing, bus and rail ridership represents only a fraction of trips now, and that's not likely to radically change soon. A Seattle think tank believes a balanced approach is called for, accepting the fact single-occupancy vehicles will play a huge role in years to come.
Seattle's last old Pacific schooner is about to be dismantled. The Wawona's impending "death" this summer offers a lesson in the challenges of maritime preservation. It's a tough end for a landmark ship that people have worked so hard for so long to save.
