http://www.rosenblog.com/ en-us oudist@comcast.net 2011-10-03T12:22:05-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/10/03/social_capital_review_king_county_seeks_budget_views_in_online_survey.html King County Executive Dow Constantine has unveiled his $5.3 billion proposed 2012 budget for the county, and highlighted a range of efficiencies he said his administration had achieved. The county council will review, possibly amend, and adopt the budget by... 1686@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-10-03T12:22:05-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/29/public_data_ferret_city_will_remove_racebased_graffiti_from_boating_center.html Only last month, after 12 years and a $3 million public-private fundraising effort, the George Corkery Family Boating Center re-opened at the City of Seattle's Mount Baker Rowing and Sailing Center at Stan Sayres Memorial Park along Lake Washington Boulevard... 1685@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-29T13:35:12-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/28/public_data_ferret_renton_passes_resolution_against_i1125_but_new_poll_shows_majority_support.html After holding a public hearing on the controversial topic of regional tolling, The City of Renton Monday night Sept. 26 approved a resolution opposing Initiative 1125, which would restrict highway tolling. Washington voters will decide it in November. Renton, a... 1684@http://www.rosenblog.com/ Transportation 2011-09-28T07:26:07-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/27/public_data_ferret_state_reports_uw_prof_got_job_for_unqualified_daughter.html On the heels of a mid-July state report that a University of Washington professor took a contract fee from a state agency for work he never delivered, and following another 2011 case which sparked a criminal prosecution against an alleged... 1683@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-27T06:51:14-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/26/public_data_ferret_seattle_eyes_transfer_of_troubled_indian_services_properties_to_nonprofit.html A public development authority formed by the City of Seattle in 1972 called the Seattle Indian Services Commission, which has been the subject of several critical city and state audits in recent years, now appears unable to continue to service... 1682@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-26T10:49:30-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/21/public_data_ferret_uw_study_accents_net_benefits_in_african_malaria_fight.html Working with U.S. and African colleagues, researchers from the University of Washington’s Institute For Health Metrics and Evaluation, in Seattle, integrated data from several dozen qualifiying health surveys in malaria-prone Sub-Saharan Africa and found that the use of Insecticide-Treated Nets... 1680@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-21T11:34:58-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/17/public_data_ferret_state_finds_dshs_worker_sexually_abused_vulnerable_patient.html With his signature on a state health department disciplinary document, a former nursing assistant at a group home operated in Shoreline by the Washington Department of Social and Health Services admitted he sexually abused a developmentally-delayed 57-year-old female patient in... 1679@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-17T21:19:11-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/14/public_data_ferret_bellevue_man_charged_with_securities_fraud.html Attorneys for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a legal complaint Sept. 8 in U.S. District Court in Seattle against Richard A. Finger, 32, of Bellevue, Wash. for defrauding investors in the Kirkland, Wash. securities trading firm he ran... 1678@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-14T15:22:27-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/13/public_data_ferret_us_adult_smoking_wont_fade_away.html U.S. adults made only slight progress quitting smoking between 2005 and 2010, and are not on track to meet the nation’s formal 2020 goal of only 12 percent of adults smoking, according to a new report released by the U.S.... 1677@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-13T17:21:25-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/09/12/public_data_ferret_interior_oig_report_raps_parks_service_climate_initiative.html "According to a report by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Inspector General, a voluntary climate change initiative of the U.S. National Park Service called Climate Friendly Parks is mainly window dressing because it has no consistent accountability and performance... 1676@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-09-12T14:05:35-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/06/28/mapping_your_lifes_stories_on_intersect.html I've been using Intersect since last summer to tell stories, personal and professional. It's a Web and social media start-up company with offices located in the McKinstry Innovation Center south of downtown Seattle where the SoDo district begins to meet... 1675@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-06-28T18:21:54-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2011/05/27/still_kickin_just_not_here.html Reminder of venue shift. Go over here; and especially here. The backdrop.... 1674@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2011-05-27T21:22:18-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2010/11/03/seattles_black_panther_a_portrait_of_aaron_dixon_for_washington_law_and_politics_junejuly_2002.html My portrait of Black Panther Seattle chapter founder Aaron Dixon appeared in Washington Law and Politics in the June/July issue of 2002. Here's the just-scanned version. The files are pdf so you'll need Adobe Reader. Page 1 Page 2 Page... 1672@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2010-11-03T21:50:13-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2010/05/02/the_public_data_ferret_project.html After beginning my current job as Director of Countywide Community Forums (CCF) in January 2010, I founded a blog meant to reflect the broader world of the work in which CCF is engaged; public engagement and collaboration in public spheres.... 1584@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2010-05-02T11:06:20-08:00 http://www.rosenblog.com/2010/03/31/social_capital_review_civic_intelligence_at_open_government_west.html From Social Capital Review: "Civic Intelligence At Open Government West." An excerpt: Liberating public data and packaging it in useful ways is a must, but savvy advocates and enablers of transparency also heard today at the Open Government West conference... 1583@http://www.rosenblog.com/ 2010-03-31T18:02:50-08:00