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Tyrone Love was a party promoter and community worker, just going to the store in February, when he was shot six times and killed in what is remains an unsolved murder. He and fellow promoter Chukundi Salisbury had been supporters of the Silent War campaign, an effort to encourage citizens to turn in violent criminals, and Love's death became another example of what they had been fighting to stop. Moreover, for Salisbury his work transformed from service to his community into an effort to "bring the outrage back."
It isn't what you might expect to hear from a community organizer. It sounds harsh and negative, but Salisbury believes it's what communities need for change. |
After years of planning, the demolition of buildings on the corner of Broadway and East John hails the start of construction of the Capitol Hill light rail station, and yesterday, City Council members met to debate the still incomplete plans for a $140 million streetcar serving First Hill and Capitol Hill.
"I really question the financial wisdom of building a streetcar network when we could expand metro transit significantly for far less," Councilmember Tom Rasmussen said as he entered the meeting. |
The battle over "green fees" will continue at least through the summer as an ordinance approved this afternoon by the Seattle City Council will put the issue to voters.
Though news cameras were in the council chambers, today's ordinance approval was merely "a ministerial action," according to Council President Richard Conlin. |
Staring down the barrel of a 277 page executive report from the mayor's office Seattle City Councilmember Sally Clark, chair of the Planning, Land Use, and Neighborhoods Committee, began the first committee discussion of the MultiFamily Code Update yesterday.
The most divisive element of the report centered on incentive zoning, which allows for certain multifamily zones to have taller structures if the construction is labeled green or provides affordable housing. |
After weeks of delays and public testimony, the Seattle City Council voted Monday to approve changes to the city's noise ordinance.
"The whole goal of the legislation is to strengthen enforcement of the ordinance," Councilmember Sally Clark, chair of the Planning, Land Use and Neighborhoods committee, explained as she introduced the council bill. |
