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University Bridge is one of the bridges ranked in "poor" condition and in need of significant maintenance work. (Photo by Doug Trumm) On Wednesday, the Seattle City Council’s transportation committee will vote on Chair Alex Pedersen’s amendment altering spending priorities for the $20 vehicle license fee (VLF). Passed by the Council in November, the fee is expected to pull in $7.2 million per year. While Pedersen’s amendment appears to have five votes via the five sponsors backing it — Pedersen, Andrew Lewis, Lisa Herbold, Teresa Mosqueda, and Debora Juarez — a committee recommenda...

April 29, 2021 Story  Gov. Jay Inslee today named Cheryl Strange secretary of Washington’s Department of Corrections (DOC). She replaces Steve Sinclair who announced his retirement in January. Strange will be the department’s first female secretary. Strange is currently secretary of the state’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), the state’s largest human service agency, where she was appointed to the position by Inslee in 2017. She is a respected and proven leader who has cultivated a humane, progressive and equitable institutional culture. Julie Martin will be the acti...

Developer scraps Golden Triangle office project and plans apartments instead BusinessDen file) A local developer’s plans for a lot in the Golden Triangle have changed from office to residential. Denver-based Alpine Investments, led by Churchill Bunn, last week submitted plans to the city proposing a 12-story, 109-unit apartment project at 955 Bannock St. The company had previously proposed a 10-story office building on the 0.36-acre lot, which currently has a two-story office and retail building on it. “Given the uncertainty in the office leasing market, and for financing new office proje...

Dr. Gabriel Barreneche recently announced that he will be leaving Rollins to accept a new role as dean of the Evans School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia.

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Dozens of teachers gathered along the Downtown Evansville Riverfront to protest pending legislation that they say would take desperately needed dollars from public schools and instead put them into private schools. The teachers gathered to protest funding proposals in the Indiana General Assembly that would provide Education Savings Accounts and expand private school voucher programs.   State and local teachers associations invited colleagues and supporters from districts across southwest Indiana to a Fair Funding Rally at Evansville's Four Freedoms Monument Saturda...