The e-mail condemned Compton for supporting Seattle's car impound ordinance, because Keller thinks it unjustly targets poor people and minorities. Like These City Council Member Heidi Wills sure has a strange way of being helpful. For example, take her recent anti-monorail resolution, which she claims was actually an attempt to support the monorail board. In an environment where the majority of her colleagues are itching to repeal the monorail initiative altogether, this modest backing is the best thing Wills could offer the ETC, she says. Monorail proponents, however, don't want friends like Wills.
Case law says it does.
Indeed, your tax dollars are sending Mayor Schell, Deputy Mayor Maude Smith Daudon, and council members Nick Licata, Peter Steinbrueck, and Heidi Wills on a nine-day excursion to the city of cabarets. The world travelers are taking part in an annual program sponsored in part by the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, which sends local pols to far-flung boom cities like Hong Kong, London, and Singapore to glean lessons in economic planning. Hopefully, the wise Berliners will set our elected officials straight about wasting money on junkets. Under the moratorium, established strip bars like the Lusty Lady on First Avenue are allowed to remain, but new clubs are forbidden. Martha Lester, the council staffer charged with studying laws in other cities and reporting back, presented a remarkably undetailed analysis of new regulations in Cincinnati.