The City of Seattle has come to an agreement with Seattle Parks & Recreation and the private development firm Build 11 LLC to retain affordable studio space for artists in Magnuson Park's Building 11.
Affordable Artist Studios Retained in Magnuson Park
Today's the Day for SB 5958, 4Culture and Darn Near Everything Cool in King County
We've been keeping you posted about the legislative fight to keep 4Culture, the cultural service agency in King County, alive and kicking. Well, today is D-Day for SB 5958, the bill that ensures the revenue stream for this vitally important cultural player is retained. Now's the time to step up, Seattle.
Seattle Government Realizes There Are Immigrants Here (and that this is a really hot issue right now)
The press release came in a short time ago and we haven't really had the opportunity to go through it with our hair pick of information discovery, but the fact that the Mayor even has an Immigration and Refuges Initiative is, itself, a good start. Look, World, Seattle has an immigration initiative and it doesn't involve the construction of any Great Walls, much less mass arrests or the floating of barges full of human cargo out the Sound (or, if it does call for mass arrests and deportations at least that part's buried and "improving services to Seattle's growing immigrant population" is the headline).
Speaking Tour: 3/19 - 3/25
WOMEN & MONEY: Personal finance expert and author, Suze Orman talks about the complicated and dysfunctional relationship that women have with money in her book, Women & Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny.

