Understanding how City Hall works!

I've been meaning to try and explain here my understanding, based on 18 years experience, of how the City of Seattle works, and how we as neighbors can influence it to our advantage.

Fortunately I've been scooped by a real author: Peggy Sturdivant, who's writing a series of such articles for Crosscut, Seattle's online newspaper (I guess that makes it a "newselectrons" and not a "newspaper"). Peggy is a freelancer who also writes a weekly column on community issues for the Ballard News-Tribune (paper or electrons).

Her series is called "There Go the Neighborhoods" and this link takes you to all of them, as well as a bonus article about neighborhood bloggers, taken in part from a neighborhood bloggers pizza get-together, where I had the pleasure of meeting her.