Monthly Archives: September 2023
2023 General Election Endorsements
2024 is a critical year for the City of Seattle. It’s a comprehensive plan year. It’s the year we’ll shape and pass a new...
Week Without Driving Goes Nationwide This October – Join Us!
Take the challenge and go carless from October 2 to 8.
For the last two years, Disability Rights Washington has invited elected leaders and policymakers...
Alaska Will Not Save Us
Like a giant overhead bin full of cookies and cash, Alaska sits for many as potential salvation. Quietly looming above, it waits as a...
Seattle Council Set to Empower Freight Board to Water Down Safety...
A Strauss resolution would give the freight board more oversight and chance to block changes to truck streets.
An under-the-radar resolution moving through the Seattle...
Op-Ed: Impact Fees Are Just Another Exclusionary Housing Policy in Disguise
Seattle is misguidedly preparing to levy impact fees on homebuilders amidst a housing crisis.
Seattle is in a housing crisis, a direct result of decades-long...
West Seattle Water Taxi To Maintain Summer Service Levels Year-Round
King County Metro's passenger-only ferry between West Seattle and Colman Dock at Pier 50 will mostly see summer sailing service maintained year-round. That means...
Morales Proposes Adding Sidewalks to Seattle’s Complete Streets Ordinance
One in four Seattle blocks lack sidewalks, but a new bill would require that significant repaving projects add or repair them.
In 2016, after the...
Bellevue Seeks Public Feedback on 15 Miles of New Bike Infrastructure
People who bike (or want to bike) in Bellevue now have the opportunity to influence the build-out of a basic bike network in the...