Naked priorities
Seattle’s unemployment rate currently hovers just over 9%, more budget reductions are about to be announced to help mitigate the city’s $60 million deficit, the timeline for replacing our aging viaduct is starting to rival that of my hometown Big Dig, and the district is scrambling to find a way to avoid issuing another 42 pink slips to educators in addition to the 36 issued earlier this month.
But what do residents think this city, a city where summer temperatures rarely climb above 80°F, a city where half of the population tends to turn the color of a boiled lobster within 15 minutes of sun exposure (and that’s to the areas of the body that *normally* see the light of day)— what do residents think this city really, TRULY needs?
