Monthly Archives: August 2015
Seattle City Council Notes: New Firearms Rules and Tax, City Enters...
At a general legislative session yesterday, the Seattle City Council met to discuss a packed agenda. Topics ranged from the waterfront public space initiative to all-gender...
ICYMI: City Expands All-Gender Restrooms City-Wide
The Seattle City Council unanimously passed legislation expanding all-gender restroom access across the City on Monday. The ordinance will require city-controlled and privately operated...
Map of the Week: King County’s Localscape
Have you ever wanted to know the racial diversity of your neighborhood, how your local schools rank, or where development permits have been recently...
Future, Present, Past
I feel a sense of comfort when low-income or working class people get on. Maybe it's because I come from a similar background. It...
Sunday Video: The Tweeting Traffic Engineer Improving Seattle’s Streets
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Dongho Chang is a Seattle Department of Transportation traffic engineer who at the crack of dawn, rides his bike across the city to investigate tweets to...
What We’re Reading: Clean Power
Get safer: The City of Seattle has launched a brand new digital emergency alert system called "AlertSeattle".
Street power: Edinburgh's newish streetcar system is a...
The Tale of An Epic Transit Failure
"Where we're going, we don't need roads."
If you saw a large good-looking man with a duffel bag sprinting through Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood in desperate...
CascadiaCast Episode 4: Patty Lent
On this episode of CascadiaCast, I chat with Patty Lent, Bremerton Mayor and former Kitsap County Commissioner. Bremerton is the largest city in Kitsap...