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Legal trouble
As city attorney, Mark Sidran faced a staff revolt. How did he handle it?
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Mayor may not
To run or not to run: that is the question faced by Mayor Paul Schell. Seattle’s chief executive…
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Vote early
Damn those late absentee ballots! Here it is a week after the election, and we’re all sitting around…
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More cash, says Council
Open those checkbooks a little wider, folks—those city office candidates want more money. By a 5-4 vote, the…
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Riding the sky
Will someone please change the destination signs on the monorail to read “purgatory?” That’s where this train is…
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Life is shopping
About 120 people showed up for an anti-corporate-welfare protest at Westlake Center last Friday, timed to coincide with…
Arts & Culture
Star Wars: Rogue Planet
Star Wars: Rogue Planet by Greg Bear (Del Rey, $26) WITH ROGUE PLANET, Greg Bear becomes the second…
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The kids are all right
Reform may finally be on the way for Seattle’s teen dance ordinance, a 1985 law aimed at separating…
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The new KVI?
Is Seattle radio station KVI replacing its traditional "hot talk" with smart talk?
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News Clips— Needle Exchange
IS BILL GATES working to preserve historical photographs—or hiding them away? That’s the question The New York Times…
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Striking Lessons
In Seattle's newspaper strike, both management and labor learned from Detroit's five-year-long labor dispute.
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News Clips— Emergency!
ONLY THE MAYOR can declare a civil emergency, according to Seattle’s city charter. But City Council member Peter…
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You can’t go home again
While residents of Tent City 2 were appealing to the City Council on July 6 not to clear…
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News Clips— Needle Exchange
ALL THE MEDIA LOVES A disaster, and the massive Ash Wednesday Earthquake made Seattle the darling of the…
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4th and James
Who’s got the money? That’s the question of the hour—every hour—during City Hall budgeting season. Some people think…