In fact, after November's elections, populists and liberals held most of the seats on the nine-member City Council. Benaroya Hall, new home to the symphony and an array of touring performers, is acoustically vital and architecturally fresh. The new baseball stadium, Safeco Field, is a delight, especially when compared to the Kingdome, which will be razed this winter to allow construction of a new football palace. Unemployment is low. Platinum Seahawks' tickets On the dark side, tickets for the symphony and the theater and the Mariners are more costly than ever, excluding more of the middle class from the culture.
Traffic congestion is assuredly world-class, and the housing situations are getting close.
The noble salmon are today an officially endangered species, and the air is so filled with particulate that even the rains cannot keep it clean for long. Such are some of the issues and ways of thinking that inform Seattle's civic dichotomy. The city will never again be that parochial fishing village, just as the world will never again be a vast undiscovered mystery or a place where mere nations control their own destinies. If a city can be a metaphor, then Seattle is perhaps the ideal host for the World Trade Organization. The city has 225 overcast days a year.