Susan Russell, our 2014 vendor of the year, came to me a month ago upset. “I got a tip from a friend. Next month the Seattle City Council is going to hear public comment on the SODO basketball arena. How can we spend hundreds of millions on sports instead of on housing?” We looked up the months-old articles and tried to verify the dates, but we couldn’t find any current opposition to the arena. And later that week in our Vendor Organizing Committee meeting she told 15 vendor-advocates about this, and we decided yes, we’ll testify: build housing, not an arena. ...