Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
The city of Seattle is in better financial shape than many other governments, Mayor Greg Nickels said Monday as he released a budget that increases spending on human services in the midst of national economic turmoil.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels today pitched a 2009 city budget that would eliminate administrative positions and instead direct money to prevent youth violence, add police officers and provide food and housing for homeless people.
The Puget Sound Business Journal (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels proposed Monday to cut city spending next year with a 2009-2010 budget that focuses on public safety and core human services.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
... city streets.City Councilwoman Jan Drago, who is sponsoring the legislation pushed by Mayor Greg Nickels' administration, agrees. "I feel we have a major problem with sandwich boards, newspaper kiosks, and other clutter on the sidewalks that makes it difficult to be a pedestrian," she said in a letter to the federation on Wednesday.Later this year, Nickels plans to send the...
Slog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
In addition to the cuts I wrote about yesterday --namely, three programs aimed at keeping youth and others off the streets and out of jail--Mayor Greg Nickels's proposed budget includes significant cuts to youth-violence prevention, emergency preparedness, and domestic violence programs . Here are a few more of Nickels's proposed cuts: $135,000 in city funding for SOAR, a program...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Homeless advocates said Wednesday that they were moving the tent encampment that has temporarily housed about 100 people in a protest against Mayor Greg Nickels' policies toward the homeless.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
The Nickelsville renegade homeless encampment's stay in Discovery Park will be short-lived. Residents of the city of fuchsia tents have...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
... Star Cultural Center, run by the United Nations of Tribes Foundation.The encampment is named Nickelsville after Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.It's meant to raise awareness about the plight of the homeless and to protest city policies that advocates say have failed them.Originally the camp was in South Seattle, but moved to nearby state land after police evicted the camp last week....
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
Seattle and Indian officials say a Seattle homeless camp known as Nickelsville will have to move again.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Proposing to cut only administrative costs, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced a city budget of $3.9 billion for 2009 and $4 billion for 2010.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
A Seattle homeless camp known as Nickelsville has moved to Discovery Park.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
SEATTLE - The Seattle Steam Co. today announced that it will hold a groundbreaking ceremony for its new renewable energy storage facility Tues., Oct. 7, at 11:30 a.m. on Western Avenue mid-block between University and Union streets. Mayor Greg Nickels is scheduled to h
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
... the job growth expected within the green jobs sector. USCM Vice President Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels will also be speaking and co-chairs the USCM Climate Protection Task Force. Nickels launched the Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement during a USCM meeting in 2005, which challenges mayors who sign the agreement to reduce carbon emissions by 7% below 1990 levels by the year...
