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  City Sports Teams Are Selling More Than Tickets

  Josh Leon | Wed, Jul 23rd, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: josh leon, seattle supersonics, oklahoma city, sports teams | 0

  The quest for taxpayer dollars has become a business within a business. No longer are franchises content to sell tickets, snacks, jerseys and television time. The other side of the professional sports industry is procuring sweetheart deals from local governments.

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  Sex, Coffee and Seattle

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 27th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: news, seattle, evan miller, police, the new argument, money, florida, video, laws, protests, employment, starbucks, coffee, friday, caffeine, oregon | 1

  It is an unfortunate truth that sex sells only because we buy it. With the women from the HBO hit series “Sex and the City” knowing this truth all too well, the relationship between sex and cities across the country has caused many to ask where to draw the line. The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports. 

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  Results of Seattle’s Test of Automatic Toilets Underwhelming

  Evan Miller | Tue, May 20th, 2008 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: environment, seattle, evan miller, homeless, the new argument, money, alley, taxpayers, paris, luxury, crack, parks, restaurants, toilet | 0

  A test gone awry brings the end to a trial contract between the city of Seattle and a German manufacturer of high-tech automatic toilets. But is such an abrupt end to a pilot program designed to quell public urination and defecation necessary? Surely these silver self-cleaning cylindrical facilities were not the boon the city was expecting, but were they really the bane? The New Argument’s Evan Miller reports.

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  City Transit May Need More Than “Technical Corrections”

  Evan Miller | Wed, Apr 16th, 2008 | Category: Guests | City: Seattle | Tags: transportation, seattle, california, growth, republican, transit, evan miller, construction, the new argument, legislation, democrats, highway, gop, laws, congress, advocate, nevada | 0

  Rail transit systems across America increase urban livability and contribute to the development and growth of cities. With this in mind, will members of congress fight for this much sought after form of city transit, or will they be blinded by partisanship and legislative technicalities? Evan Miller of The New Argument reports. 

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  Seattle’s public transportation debate: Is a light rail the best option?

  Matt Stroud | Fri, Oct 26th, 2007 | Category: Commentary | City: Seattle | Tags: seattle, public transportation debate, light rail, sounder trains, downtown bellevue in motion, roads and transit | 1

  I consider myself an urbanite.

  I live across the street from my office. My daily commute is a five-minute walk. My boyfriend and I share one car, and use it about twice a week for errands. I choose walking or public transit over driving when I can, and I’m a happy participant of Downtown Bellevue In Motion.

  That’s why I was initially so excited to see Proposition 1 on this November’s ballot.

  The so-called Roads and Transit package aims to “reduce transportation congestion, increase…

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