I made the decision last month to pull my seven-year-old daughter from school for field trips of our own. For one day every two weeks, for the remainder of the school year, we are exploring the Northwest's offerings, history, and culture.
Neither the City Council nor Mayor Greg Nickels seems to care that the Mercer Street Corridor project — realignment of the South Lake Union street grid — will do nothing to mitigate traffic between Seattle Center and Interstate 5. It will simply beautify a neighborhood virtually owned by Paul Allen.
"Legislative Victory for Land Conservation," reads the alert from the Land Trust Alliance [http://www.lta.org/]. The e-mail reports sweet news for anyone chafing under the Los Angeles-ization of the Evergreen State: the re-establishment of tax incentives for donated easements to conserve sensitive l
At Seattle's 7th District caucus, the elder statesmen of the Democratic Party seemed oddly out of place. The youthful grassroots have displaced the bosses of old, and white guys in ties smell like yesterday's news.
Veteran Seattle TV journalist Robert Mak [http://www.king5.com/about/bios/stories/K5bios-Mak.be3b4f0c.html] has been named communications director and senior policy advisor to Mayor Greg Nickels. He has been the longtime and only host of KING 5 News Up Front [http://www.king5.com/upfront/] on NBC af
