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Monthly Archives: March 2022

Inslee holds the scissors and other high-level officials look on outside the SR-99 tunnel in February 2019.

Legislature Must Cut Highway Expansion and Protect Transit, Safety, Maintenance Funds

The $16.9 billion Move Ahead Washington transportation package faces a large funding gap after State House passed a version of the bill Tuesday that...

Honor Wallingford’s Streetcar History by Building Transit and Dense, Affordable Housing

Beginning with my great grandmother, three generations of women in my family lived in a craftsman home that has since been flattened into the...

Federal Regulations on the Digital Marketplace Spur Concerns for Local Businesses

It is evident that the disruption of COVID-19 has not affected all businesses equally. Restaurants closed, events cancelled, travels postponed, and many small, BIPOC-owned...

Amendment Guts Key Climate Provisions in Growth Management Bill

However, it's not too late to let Washington lawmakers know they should restore the bill to its original intention. Last night the Senate Ways and...

Midweek Video: What Is Gentrification?

Vox explores what gentrification is and is not, and comes in defense of the "Gentrification Building" that grabbed a lot of attention on TikTok.
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The Urbanist Podcast: Lots of Housing Going Up Above Seattle Safeway...

In this latest podcast episode, reporter Ray Dubicki and I discuss a notable housing trend in Seattle, the conversion of big-box Safeway grocery stores...

Seattle Moves Toward Devoting Street Space to Freight

As the city works to integrate its different modal plans — pedestrian, bicycle, freight and transit — into one unified "Seattle transportation plan" in...
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Proposed Digital Equity Bill Needs Support to Increase Broadband Access

For a long time, Washington’s digital divide worried many groups of people who saw its harmful and inequitable effects: librarians, teachers, tribal governments, and...