King County Metro officials have raised bus driver pay dramatically while neglecting some promised service increases. Now, the wages threaten to cut into existing service.
Transit demand should continue to fall through the year, owing to fuel prices and high unemployment. But the demand for new transit taxes, based on last year's rise in usage, will not go away.
John Procaccino (left) as Willie Stark and Peter Dylan O'ꀙConnor as Sugar-Boy in Intiman Theatre's production of <i>All the King's Men</i>. (Chris Bennion)
Fourth in a series: The Internet is destroying the economic model that sustained the newspaper industry for generations, but it is also bringing to newspaper Web sites younger readers.
