Pioneer Square needs to get organized to revitalize itself. The Main Street program, which barely survived Olympia budget cuts, offers a tested approach that could bring small-town techniques to Seattle's historic urban district.
Mayor McGinn is one of the few who grasp that our plans for the Alaskan Way Viaduct and 520 are symptoms of a failure to contend with an underlying regional disease: growth for its own sake.
Tim Burgess is leading the effort to put names on Seattle's unnamed alleys, or at least figure out how to do it and what it will cost. Mossback's head is swelling.
The Alaskan Way Viaduct project runs through a part of today's SoDo district, an area radically transformed by early development of Seattle. The conclusion of a two-part series examines how the viaduct and the 520 bridge projects will create engineering problems and rich opportunities to learn about
The passing of Harry Wappler makes me nostalgic for the way Seattle used to do the weather.
