One of the moderators of Saturday's presidential forum at the Yearly Kos 'netroots' convention in Chicago was a Seattle-based blogger who grew up in Idaho. She sat down with Crosscut for an interview shortly after being up onstage with seven Democratic presidential aspirants.
As the team heads for the exits, it looks like everybody lost. In fact, Howard Schultz, the Oklahoma City gang, and Mayor Nickels may have all got exactly what they wanted (but dared not declare).
Much of the growth comes from external factors we cannot control. But not all of it is beyond local political control. An urban geographer sorts out the unusual concentration of growth hormones that hit the area and looks at the dilemmas of rapid growth.
Exhibit A is the case of developer Henry Liebman, whose strategy in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood wouldn't be possible without a lot of government help.
The University of Washington quarterback phenom didn't disappoint in the Husky football opener, just as the Mariners were losing their seventh straight.
