http://www.seattlecourant.com Seattle's newest 21st century local daily newspaper serving Seattle. en-us Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:56:01 EDT http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/186 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:32:31 EDT http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/186 It's the conversation that seems will never end. I guess it started in 2001 when the Nisqually earthquake rattled our cage and the Alaskan Way viaduct wheezed and sagged. Perhaps it should have started back in 1989 when 42 people were crushed under the Cypress Viaduct in San Francisco's Loma Prieta quake. But here we are, eight years into this discussion and debate over what to do with the Alaskan Way Viaduct and who should pay for it. http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/158 Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:41:04 EDT http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/158 Prostitution and the Mercer Corridor project will be up for debate this week in the Seattle City Council. Councilmember Tim Burgess wants anyone busted for patronizing a prostitute charged an additional $150 fee to cover the cost of john school to educate johns on the evils of prostitution. http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/135 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:00:00 EDT http://www.seattlecourant.com/section/news/135 So what really happened? Did Mayor Greg Nickels and Seattle Councilmember Jan Drago know that the Mercer Project was not on the list to receive federal funding before the City Council voted on Monday to remove the spending restriction, releasing the available funds to get the two year project going? Or were Nickels and Drago as dumbfounded as everyone else when the Mercer Project didn't make the cut?