Light rail

Riding that Train

Love Sound Transit or loath it, you gotta enjoy the ride on the slick new Link line.

07/23/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Digital privacy

How to Vanish from the Web

A new app from UW offers an answer to the dilemma of ineradicable data

07/21/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Shopping bag tax

A Bag Full of Bucks

How far will the Chemistry Council go to kill the tax?

07/20/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Campaigns 2009

Licata Lite

The world may be going digital, but this incumbent decided to publish his own newspaper. instead

07/17/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Transit

Hear That Noisy Light Rail Go

In Tukwila, Sound Transit prepares to buffer its train noise. In Seattle, a citizen monitor finds decibels well above legal limits.

07/16/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Parking cheats

Handicapping the Odds

Most disabled-parking blue tabs aren’t bogus, whatever the Times says.

07/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

The Doctor Is In a Fix

Martin Cahn went into general practice to help people and unravel the mysteries of their ailments. Now he just wishes someone could do the same for a health care system gone critical.

07/15/2009 By Eric Scigliano

City Council

Please, We’d Rather Elect One Ourselves

Fed-up Southeast Seattleites join the fight to bring back district elections.

07/14/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Streets and trains

Left out on Graham Street

Rainier Valley merchants protesting traffic blockages threaten to block Sound Transit’s launch.

07/12/2009 By Eric Scigliano

South Lake Union development

Make Way, McKay

But City’s bulletin suggests it will raze two terra cotta gems to widen Mercer, right where Vulcan plans an office building.

07/09/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Comfort Food

We sampled macaroni and cheese, roast chicken, creamy puddings, and meatloaf in eateries all over town in order to bring you the best, most comforting dishes around.

07/08/2009 With Steve Wiecking, Eric Scigliano, Laura Cassidy, and John Ferensen By Kathryn Robinson

Power Neighborhoods

Will West Seattle Rule the City?

For the first time since 1998, we may have a mayor and country executive from the same neighborhood.

07/06/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Light rail

Stuck at the Light

Sound Transit’s long-awaited Rainier Line debuts July 18—but it’s already causing excruciating crosstown delays.

07/05/2009 By Eric Scigliano

New media, old politics

PubliCollateral Connections

Strange bedfellows at the hot new news site’s coming out party.

07/02/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Pop Culture

Jacko and Obama

America’s most exportable lcons

06/28/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Taxation representation

So Call It a Commuter Tax

Nickels, Conlin, and Burgess want to repeal an unpopular green-minded tax. But maybe it just needs rebranding.

06/23/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Article

Best of the City 2009

The Global Edition

06/23/2009 With Steve Wiecking, Kathryn Robinson, Matthew Halverson, James Ross Gardner, Eric Scigliano, Laura Cassidy, Karen Quinn, Alex Girma, and Kelley Frodel Edited by Jessica Voelker

Article

Coming to America

In a rundown refugee apartment complex a new world city is taking shape, and one teenage girl is at the center of it.

06/23/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Great debates

Gaia vs. Medea, Seattle vs. Vancouver

Steinbrueck and Price defend each other’s cities. Ward challenges Lovelock on the fate of the earth.

06/19/2009 By Eric Scigliano

Vanishing newspapers

Media Monocultures

There’s more news out than some people think.

06/17/2009 By Eric Scigliano