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2003 Stories by Erica C. Barnett

• Paul Allen and the Monorail

  published April 30, 2003

  Did the Seattle Monorail Project (SMP) let Paul Allen's development company choose the monorail's course through Seattle... More >>

• Mono a Mono

  published April 23, 2003

  THE STAKES ARE high in the battle to build Seattle's 14-mile monorail. At $1.7 billion, the prize will be both lucrative and prestigious... More >>

• Elections, Crime, and the Media

  published April 23, 2003

  ELECTIONS The harsh fiscal realities are staring Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Spokane, in the face just as he rises to the top... More >>

• Rooting for Routes

  published April 16, 2003

  MONORAIL So it isn't exactly a defection. Still, it's not every day that a monorail crusader announces that he's taking money... More >>

• Civil Rights, the Monorail, and City Hall

  published April 9, 2003

  CIVIL RIGHTS Westlake Mall security guards picked on the wrong demonstrator in February, when they singled Beth Sanders out of a... More >>

• Home Turf

  published April 2, 2003

  CITY COUNCIL Kollin Min, the most credible challenger for Judy Nicastro's City Council seat, has been rustling up... More >>

• Of Cabbages and Cocktails

  published March 26, 2003

  Getting drunk in a health-food restaurant is a little like smoking a cigarette in the gym. But is it an exercise in cognitive dissonance or a... More >>

• Playing the Get Out of Jail Free Card

  published March 26, 2003

  INITIATIVES King County Council member Dwight Pelz, D-Seattle, and initiative king Tim Eyman scratched, bit, and... More >>

• Eds High-Wire Act

  published March 19, 2003

  From the second he ascended to the head of the state House Transportation Committee in January, Rep. Ed Murray, D-Seattle, began a complicated... More >>

• Northgate Brawl

  published March 19, 2003

  THE MAYOR Secret negotiations! Sweetheart deals! Broken campaign promises and developer giveaways! Those are some of the... More >>

• Hilton's Hellholes

  published March 12, 2003

  Houses don't become dilapidated overnight. It takes years of neglect to turn a grand old mansion into a fire and safety hazard. Broken windows... More >>

• Zarker, Pulitzers, and SeaPop

  published March 12, 2003

  CITY COUNCIL Just minutes before they tore a new hole in City Light director Gary Zarker's r鳵m鬠Seattle City... More >>

• TIF'ed Off

  published March 5, 2003

  It's the biggest corporate giveaway you never heard of. Tax increment financing, or TIF, could well be the most egregious handout to big... More >>

• KCTS Mess, Continued

  published March 5, 2003

  MEDIA KCTS board member Don Nielsen confirms that the troubled public television station is about to report another... More >>

• Dubya Is for War

  published March 5, 2003

  Our goal for this Spring Books issue is to read beneath the text of war. The surface plot is obvious enough: Bush is going to invade Iraq, and... More >>

• The Cabbie Quits

  published February 26, 2003

  MONORAIL Dick Falkenbury, the original monorail proponent, resigned from the Seattle Popular Monorail Authority board... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 19, 2003

  MONORAIL Clise Properties' Chief Operating Officer Richard Stevenson, recently nominated for an appointment to the Seattle Monorail... More >>

• Barbecue With Frills

  published February 12, 2003

  BARBACOA IS TO barbecue what Cactus is to Mexican food: a little fancier, a lot pricier, and with a bunch more shiny accessories. In the real... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 12, 2003

  CITY COUNCIL Muni Leaguer Lonnie Lusardo, who took on police accountability as part of a police-civilian task force back... More >>

• Buzz

  published February 5, 2003

  SOUND TRANSIT Has the tide turned for Sound Transit? The agency's light-rail plan was looking pretty unstoppable... More >>

• Buzz

  published January 29, 2003

  CITY LIGHT What have all those energy bigwigs been doing at City Hall? Two weeks ago, all three members of the state... More >>

• Buzz

  published January 22, 2003

  TRANSPORTATION People love their car-pool lanes. At least that's what you might assume after a recent flood of... More >>

• Fancy on the cheap

  published January 15, 2003

  PORTFOLIO RESTAURANT 2600 Alaskan Way, WATERFRONT/BELLTOWN 206-239-2363 lunch 11:30 a.m.-1... More >>

• Buzz

  published January 15, 2003

  MONORAIL Stu Rolfe, the managing partner of Seattle Monorail Services, which operates the historic... More >>

• Not So Fast

  published January 8, 2003

  IT WON'T REDUCE travel time or increase the speed of cars on freeways, and it won't make driving safer. But the Washington State Department of... More >>