Hot issues don't really die, ever, they just retreat underground and cool for a while before popping up in new places. Increased regulation of strip clubs was put down by voters recently by a pretty strong majority, but according to this email we just received the City Council is reintroducing some of the restrictions of the placement of new clubs in the form of a zoning ordinance. Today at 5:30 at City Hall there's a......

The Viaduct's closing this weekend for repairs and we should keep it closed. We're never going to decide anything while traffic is flowing freely because the problem isn't apparent enough. The Viaduct isn't safe. We're going to replace it with a tunnel or a bigger viaduct or maybe nothing at all, but we'll vote on that for the first time at the end of 2007 and who knows how long it'll be after that. We'll......

When the City Council's study came back last month recommending downtown zoning changes that would raise the ceiling on the business core while funding lower-income housing Seattlest was skeptical: It just doesn't seem intuitive to us that the results of a City Council commissioned study suggest that the way to encourage high-rise structures downtown is to make them more expensive to build. But it turns out that we were only tenuously attached to that......

ID=1984: Continuing on yesterday's Database Of Oppression theme, Mayor Nichols is pushing a city database to hold information on troublesome night spots. Creep On The Loose: Another sexual assault is being attributed to a serial offender near Tacoma. On Monday a woman awoke to find an assailant inside her apartment with two males already bound. The men were able to free themselves, but the attacker escaped. Our Father, Who Art A Thug: The Lake Chelan......