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Proposition 1: the arguments against, deconstructed
It's fairly easy to propound better solutions than the roads-and-transit measure about to be voted on. But it's not easy to see how they would be enacted.
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Nominee for dumbest ballot item
I hate gratuitous political mission statements, like the kind Greg Nickels attaches to public works signs [http://crosscut.com/mossback/8097/Greg+Nickels+is+everywhere/]. With the election nigh, I attended a dinner of political junkies and in going through the ballot stumbled upon Seattle Charter Am
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Peter Steinbrueck pulls his hat out of the ring for mayor's race
Retiring from his post next January, Seattle City Council member Peter Steinbrueck has virtually closed the door on running for Mayor in 2009. Instead, he's going to be taking a job in the private sector, one that meets his four objectives for a new job, which he describes this way: "integrated desi
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Seattle Fire Department: Harder than Harvard to get into
A magazine with the annoying title of 02138 (that being the zip code for Cambridge, Mass, around Harvard) grew a little testy about how elite Harvard is, even though the magazine is aimed squarely at Harvard alumni. So they did an article [http://www.02138mag.com/magazine/article/1499.html] making s
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The view of Prop 1 from a comfy bus seat in the Rose City
It isn't very sporting to point out that Portland had the foresight [http://www.trimet.org/] to plan miles of rail corridors in less time than it took Seattle to reach consensus on that all-important question, "Should Pine Street be open to vehicular traffic?" So, instead let's point out that around