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Monthly Archives: August 2014

Sunday Video: East Union Neighborhood

https://vimeo.com/100755248 A short video of local folks from the East Union neighborhood of the Central District in Seattle.

4:15pm

At 4:15pm on August 30, 2010, an officer responded to the life’s work of one Native man in the worst of all possible ways. Since...

What We’re Reading: Tragic Loss

Bike well: The Seattle Bike Blog offers up some suggestions for Seattle's next pedestrian plaza. Friday morning saw a tragic cyclist death on Second Avenue, the...

I Am Now Two Years Old

  Two years ago I posted the first of these stories, which now number in the hundreds and stem from seven years of bus driving. The...

Special Sounder Service This Weekend Plus Upcoming Events

In case you don't live in Seattle, but feel like taking transit to the Mariners and Sounders games this weekend, Sound Transit has you...

Seattle’s Homeless Population Grew Between 2012 and 2013

(There's a lot of data in the 2013 HUD report on homelessness. This is part 2 of The Urbanist's series to better understand this data....

Merger

  As I woke a scruffy older sleeper at the U District terminal, he grumbled out something I think he intended to be derogatory. Something...

Bertha’s Future

Bertha, the massive highway tunnel boring machine, is stuck in one place underground until at least next March. The future of State Route 99 has...