SEATTLE — It was major local news when the new City Council was seated here in January with a 5-to-4 majority of women. franchise for years has also been a blow to Seattle’s image as a major city. But Ms. González, who said that at least one of the emails to her had been referred to the Seattle police for investigation, said the arena vote had also exposed other fault lines. Seattle is home to the Seahawks of the National Football League and the Mariners of Major League Baseball, but it has not had an N.B.A. Women were a majority on the nine-member City Council through most of the 1990s, but since then until this year, as through most of the city’s political history, they were a minority voice.

Source: New York Times May 07, 2016 19:03 UTC