SEATTLE - Crosscut.com's publisher, David Brewster, asks if it is the right time to "devolve" the city council. I am having a hard time coming up with a good reason why it shouldn't.
The downtown-centric city government is just not as accountable to the people that live here as they are to people that live in places like Medina.
Read Crosscut here!
On the same day the Seattle Time came out against this, and for keeping the government just the way it is they were given a big tax break by the state (you whores).
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Seattle Times Newspaper's Nicole Brodeur: Online comments: Uncensored, unfiltered, untied
SEATTLE - Nicole Brodeur has written a "Column" to inform us on how sometimes people say mean things in internet forums.
Strike that, Seattle's only major daily newspaper has paid somebody to write a story to be printed and sold about the nature and form for anonymous posts on its online comments.
Whenever I read the Seattle Times "Democracy Papers" (which are very good reading) I can not help but think of the Nicole Brodeur's of the world and wonder if we are ready to think about what in a newspaper really needs "saving" for the sake of democracy.
Whatever that is, this is not it.
Have a great day,
Mike Baker
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Visit me here: http://ManyWordsForRain.blogspot.com
Strike that, Seattle's only major daily newspaper has paid somebody to write a story to be printed and sold about the nature and form for anonymous posts on its online comments.
Whenever I read the Seattle Times "Democracy Papers" (which are very good reading) I can not help but think of the Nicole Brodeur's of the world and wonder if we are ready to think about what in a newspaper really needs "saving" for the sake of democracy.
Whatever that is, this is not it.
Have a great day,
Mike Baker
Sent from my iPhone
Visit me here: http://ManyWordsForRain.blogspot.com
Monday, May 11, 2009
SeattlePI.com: McGinn: Viaduct tunnel 'endangers' Seattle's future
Mayoral candidate Michael McGinn was interviewed by SeattlePI.com's Chris Grygiel.
Here is the short of it.
Tunnel bad, surface/I-5 expansion good (I agree).
High cost is bad (I agree).
Cars and oil are bad (a mass transit that does not completely run on oil and is sized appropriately for every use I call busses and electric cars, we have one and the other is coming in 2010, so fix the roads already).
Fence sitting on KeyArena and Seattle Center. He gave no solution to an anchor tenant if that is not the NBA. He did not say anything about the $540 million dollar master plan for Seattle Center that does not account for KeyArena or how to pay for it, or how to justify paying for it without an anchor tenant in . . . KeyArena.
He's green (I think he has a fixed idea of what that is, and his funding sources like him that way). He needs to tie tunnel spending to the sidewalks not being built anytime soon if I am ever going to think about voting for him.
He's a people person (I'm people).
Read the interview right here!
Have a great day,
Mike Baker
Sent from my iPhone
Visit me here: http://ManyWordsForRain.blogspot.com
Here is the short of it.
Tunnel bad, surface/I-5 expansion good (I agree).
High cost is bad (I agree).
Cars and oil are bad (a mass transit that does not completely run on oil and is sized appropriately for every use I call busses and electric cars, we have one and the other is coming in 2010, so fix the roads already).
Fence sitting on KeyArena and Seattle Center. He gave no solution to an anchor tenant if that is not the NBA. He did not say anything about the $540 million dollar master plan for Seattle Center that does not account for KeyArena or how to pay for it, or how to justify paying for it without an anchor tenant in . . . KeyArena.
He's green (I think he has a fixed idea of what that is, and his funding sources like him that way). He needs to tie tunnel spending to the sidewalks not being built anytime soon if I am ever going to think about voting for him.
He's a people person (I'm people).
Read the interview right here!
Have a great day,
Mike Baker
Sent from my iPhone
Visit me here: http://ManyWordsForRain.blogspot.com
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