| A sampling of our most recently added videos. |
Transportation Committee 2/9/2010
Agenda Items: pedestrian skybridge, 2010 Bicycle Master Plan Work Program, Westlake Transportation Hub Project. |
 American Podium: Marching to the Dream - Rep. John. Lewis
U.S. Representative John Lewis speaks at the 23rd Annual King County Dr. Martin Luther, Jr. Celebration at the Paramount Theater. A true American hero, Rep. John Lewis has dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building what he calls "The Beloved Community" in America." |
Council Briefing 2/8/2010
Agenda Items: State Legislative Session Updates, Preview of Today`s Council Actions/Councilmember and Committee Reports. |
Full Council 2/8/2010
Agenda Items: JP`s Market Addition, Business license tax, 2010 Adopted Budget for the Police Department, Statements of Legislative Intent, Boards and Commissions Appointments, new utility service use. |
Committee on the Built Environment Public Hearing 2/8/2010
The Seattle City Council decides annually whether to amend the City`s Comprehensive Plan in response to amendments that are proposed by members of the public, organizations, City departments, and others. In mid-2009, amendments were proposed and many were put forward for further study. The Council is holding this public hearing to hear feedback about whether to adopt any of the proposed amendments in March, 2010. |
 CityStream Sneak Peak: Granite Curling Club
With the Vancouver, B.C. Winter Olympics just days away, folks are getting ready to watch the snow-capped, fast paced action. Learn about the sport of Curling with the Granite Curling Club. See how a 42 pound stone, a broom, good balance, and a sense of humor can lead to family fun. And if you use your broom correctly, you may even score some bragging rights. Then tune in Thursday, February 11 at 7 p.m. to watch the full episode of CityStream. Join host Roxeanne Vainuku at Ballard Blossom, just in time for Valentine`s Day. Plus, learn how musical creativity is keeping kids safe and off the streets. Then, take a tour of the region`s history in the National Records archives. |
 Town Square: DSA`s State of Downtown Economic Forum 2010
More than 900 local business leaders gathered for the State of Downtown Economic Forum – the Downtown Seattle Association`s (DSA) annual analysis of the Downtown economy. Hear why the consensus opinion - according to forum speakers - is that despite a difficult 2009, and a tough year ahead, Downtown Seattle`s diverse economic engine will help us come out of the recession more quickly than others. |
 Seattle`s Sister Cities: Chongqing, China
Discover Chongqing, Seattle`s giant and booming Chinese Sister City, in a fast-paced half hour of Flying Tigers, great food and ambition, great pandas, and astonishing growth. |
 City Inside/Out: Ending Homelessness 2/5/2010
This week on City Inside/Out, we take to the streets on the annual One Night Count of the homeless, hear from activists who are trying to help address this crisis, and introduce you to several people who have experienced the problem first-hand. Plus don`t miss our spirited studio roundtable with Bill Block, Project Director of the Committee to End Homelessness; Linda Rasmussen, YWCA Associate Director of Homeless Initiatives; Tim Harris, Publisher of the homeless newspaper Real Change, and Paul Guppy, Vice-President of Research at the Washington Policy Center. |
 Art Zone with Nancy Guppy
What a great mix on this weeks show! What a great mix on this weeks show! We profile Linda Hartzell, artistic director of Seattle Children`s Theatre; Mark Baumgarten, Executive Editor of City Arts Magazine, talks up the local music scene; we feature a beautiful painting by Susan Dory; and it`s all about the reggae with Adrian Xavier! |
 Seattle News NOW 2/5/2010
This week on Seattle News NOW; SR520 design debate; Viaduct funds and technology grants. Those stories and more are on this week`s episode of Seattle News NOW. |
Parks and Seattle Center Committee 2/4/2010
Agenda Items: Green Seattle Partnership, Seattle Center Advisory Commission, Seattle Center Design Guidelines. |
Public Safety and Education Committee 2/4/2010
Agenda Items: Families and Education Levy Oversight Committee, Committee Work Program, Highlights of Public Safety, Human Services and Education Committee Activities in 2009. |
 CityStream
On this edition of CityStream, nearly every family deals with it -- addiction. Now a new book gives us a unique insight into its causes and cures... Then, recent high numbers of salmon are returning to area rivers. But it`s the kind of birds the fish are attracting that has folks flocking to river banks. Plus, it`s time to celebrate neighbors with Neighbor Appreciation Day. |
 Town Square: Art and Environmental Advocacy
A panel of folks from the Seattle Art Museum and the Cascade Land Conservancy discuss what roles artists should play in championing environmental causes and how environmentalists and artists can collaborate to build public interest around sustainability. |
Energy, Technology, and Civil Rights Committee 2/3/2010
Agenda Items: Seattle Office of Civil Rights Appointments, Discussion of Seattle City Light Financial Policies, Proposed Task Force Legislation, 2009 Technology Accomplishments and Highlights, 2010 Technology Work Program. |
Committee on the Built Environment 2/3/2010
Agenda Items: Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, Director`s Report Department of Planning and Development, Fees for Land Use Review, Fees for New and Altered Buildings and Equipment, Arboretum Drive Stormwater Facility, Seattle Comprehensive Plan, Ballard Hub Urban Village. |
Seattle Public School Board 2/3/2010
A meeting of the Seattle Public School Board. |
Finance and Budget Committee 2/2/2010
Agenda Items: business licensing, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Police Department Budget, Statements of Legislative Intent. |
Regional Development and Sustainability Committee 2/2/2010
Agenda Items: 2010 Work Plans for the Office of Emergency Management, Office of Economic Development, Office of Sustainability and Environment, and Seattle Public Library. |
Portrait of America - Black
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Portrait of America - Hispanic
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Un nuevo perfil de los Estados Unidos
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Portrait of America
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Portrait of America - Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islanders
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Portrait of America - Asian
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
Portrait of America - American Indian and Alaska Native
Every ten years, a Portrait of America is taken by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 2010 Census will provide a clear and detailed picture of our nation, and its results will be used to determine how $400 billion in federal tax money is spent in states and communities. |
 American Podium: Raj Patel - Looking Beyond Price Tags
In an era when the gears of the economy have ground to a virtual halt, writer, activist, and academic Raj Patel (2008`s bestselling Stuffed and Starved) says we all need to start asking the fundamental but baffling question of why things cost what they do. His latest work, The Value of Nothing, uses some fundamental but forgotten economics and cutting-edge neuroeconomics to show how the price we pay for everything is systematically distorted. Patel clearly explains why the question "How much?" means far more than the price on the sticker. |
Council Briefing 2/1/2010
Agenda Items: State Legislative Session Updates, Preview of Today`s Council Actions/Councilmember and Committee Reports, Clerk`s Office 2010 Work Plan, Annexation. |
Full Council 2/1/2010
Agenda Items: Adopting the Seattle City Council 2010 Work Program, vehicular and pedestrian skybridge, utility tunnel, temporary construction easements. |
Press Event: SR 520 Update
A new coalition of community groups and elected officials announce a consensus view of the future of the SR 520 corridor. |
Budget Committee 1/31/2010
Panel at the Biennial Citizens Budget Conference. Councilmembers discuss and respond to questions from the public. |
 2010 Citizen`s Budget Conference 1/31/2010
The Citizens Budget Conference kicks off Seattle City Government`s two year budget process. Find out why budgeting matters and how to get involved in the decisions that affect you. |
 Town Square: How the Web`s Gone Wrong
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier, known as the father of virtual-reality technology, was among the first to predict the revolutionary changes the World Wide Web would bring to commerce and culture. In his latest work, You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, Lanier says the Web`s first designers made crucial choices (such as making one`s presence anonymous) that have had enormous-and often unintended-consequences, including elevating the "wisdom" of mobs and algorithms over the intelligence and judgment of individuals. |
Housing, Human Services, Health, and Culture Committee 1/29/2010
Agenda Items: Office of Housing proposed 2009 Levy Administrative and Financial Plan, Car Camp Project Presentation from the Ballard Homes for All Coalition. |
 City Inside/Out: Seattle Schools
On February 9, 2010, Seattle voters will decide whether to approve $712.7 million in school levies. Proposition 1 is a capital levy for $270 million, and Proposition 2 is an operations levy for $442.7 million. The 2 levies are not technically new; they continue previous funding provided by Seattle property owners, though the capital levy is bigger this time. How has this funding been used in the past, and what projects are they earmarked for, if passed? Don`t miss Levy 101, our background story which delves into Seattle`s school levies and why they are not universally supported. We also check in on the status of the Seattle School district, with an in-studio interview featuring Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson, Seattle Council PTSA President Ramona Hattendorf and former Seattle School Board member Dick Lilly. |
 Art Zone with Nancy Guppy
We`re pulling out the stops in this week`s episode with a wonderful profile on renowned photographer Jini Dellaccio; Kathy Hsieh brings us the latest theatre news; we get a true-life story from actor R. Hamilton Wright; and the hot and soulful sounds of Soul Kata fills our studio! |
 Seattle News NOW 1/29/2010
This week on Seattle News NOW; school levies; renewable energy and Neighbor Appreciation Day. Those stories and more are on this week`s episode of Seattle News NOW. |
 CityStream
On this edition of CityStream ... it`s more than a neighborhood gathering place. Learn about the programs Neighborhood House offers its community and how helping to end poverty is a core mission. And, your neighborhood could be expanding as more people build backyard cottages. Plus, history meets high tech. How logging on can lead to a history lesson with HistoryLink. Join host Lowell Deo for these stories and more. |
Seattle Board of Parks Commissioners Meeting 1/28/2010
The Park Board advises the Superintendent, Mayor, City Council, and other departments and officials on the City`s park and recreation comprehensive plan, capital improvement program, policies, recreation programs, and budget. They meet the second and fourth Thursday of every month 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. in the Park Board Room in Denny Park at 100 Dexter Ave N. |
 5th. Avenue Theatre Spotlight Night: Some Enchanted Evening
"Some Enchanted Evening" The Rebirth of a Classic Musical. Executive Producer and Artistic Director, David Armstrong, talks with Bartlett Sher, the outbound Artistic Director of Seattle`s Intiman Theatre and Resident Director at Lincoln Center Theatre, of how he and his team made a classic come alive for a new generation, concluding with a look at the career of South Pacific`s creators, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, who revolutionized the American Musical by creating what they called "the musical play." Director Bartlett Sher`s smash-hit Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein`s South Pacific brought spectacular new life to a musical that hadn`t been revived on Broadway since its original production in 1949. The 5th Avenue Theatre`s Producing Artistic Director David Armstrong will tell the story of this legendary team, from their early shows with other collaborators to their historic partnership, their timeless shows and their enduring effect on the musical theater. Featuring musical performances by some of Seattle`s finest singers including Patti Cohenour, Jessica Skerrit and Eric Ankrim performing selections from Oklahoma!, Carousel, Flower Drum Song, Cinderella, The King and I and The Sound of Music. |
Mayor`s Press Conference: Weatherization Training 1/27/2010
Mayor Mike McGinn helps recognize an important new weatherization program that directly contributes to local green jobs. |
 City Inside/Out: Council Edition January 2010
City Inside/Out: Council Edition kicks off 2010 with new City Council Member Sally Bagshaw in the studio. She`ll be joined by fellow Council Members Sally Clark and Nick Licata. Hear their thoughts on Mayor McGinn`s seawall levy proposal, viaduct plans and other current events. Host C.R. Douglas will lead the discussion which includes emails from constituents. |
Transportation Committee 1/26/2010
Agenda Items: 2010 Pedestrian Master Plan Work Program, First Hill Streetcar Project Update, Pedestrian Skybridge. |
Joint Meeting of the Public Safety and Education Committee and the Labor Policy Committee 1/26/2010
The Seattle City Council and the Office of Professional Accountability Review Board (OPARB) jointly hosts a public hearing on the effectiveness of the City`s police accountability system to provide a forum for elected officials to hear directly from the public before the City begins labor negotiations with the Seattle Police Officer`s Guild (SPOG). |
Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Committee 1/26/2010
Agenda Items: Briefing on 2009 Neighborhood Plan Updates, Review of Committee Workplan, Seattle Public Utilities Audit Entrance Presentation, Briefing on Seattle`s Drainage and Wastewater System. |
American Podium: Understanding Addiction Question and Answer
A question and answer session with Gabor Mate. This is additional footage from the original American Podium: Future of Health - Understanding Addiction program that premiered on Tuesday, January 26 on the Seattle Channel. |
 American Podium: Future of Health - Understanding Addiction
Addictions fill celebrity tabloids and fuel "reality" TV shows, but the true reality is that even those of us who know an addict, or have experienced addiction, have a hard time fully understanding the void that addiction attempts to fill, or know how to address it. But bestselling writer and physician Gabor Mate (In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts), who has worked with the severely addicted on Vancouver`s Skid Row, explains the phenomenon by describing its root causes -- a complex interplay of personal history, emotional and neurological development, brain chemistry, and Western culture. |
Council Briefing 1/25/2010
Agenda Items: Elliott Bay Seawall Replacement, State Legislative Session Updates, Preview of Today`s Council Actions/Councilmember and Committee Reports. |
Full Council 1/25/2010
Agenda Items: Do Not Mail Registry, energy conservation, Seattle Design Commission, Eastside Transmission Line, Boundary Dam Hydroelectric Project, Parks Levies, new Chief of Police appointment policy goals. |
