Doug Trumm
Doug Trumm is the Publication Director at The Urbanist. He joined the exodus to Seattle in 2014, leaving behind his home state of Minnesota. Living on disputed land between Wallingford and Fremont, he is doing his best to improve both neighborhoods. He is a grad student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance and a marketing intern at King County Metro. His views are his own and do not represent his employer.
UpZones Podcast is a weekly podcast featuring stories from people building a richer, more cosmopolitan new Seattle. Ian Martinez, a former journalist and Obama Administration adviser, brings his unique conversational manner to long-form interviews with community leaders in the arts, politics and activism, business, and general civic...
While the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) has a "New Mobility Playbook" touting trendy transportation options, it doesn't have a e-scooter program. We got a hint at why in Mayor Jenny Durkan's comments at Civic Cocktail last week.
"No helmet, no experience; it goes...
It's been a busy week for candidates jumping in the 2019 Seattle City Council race. The seven district-based council seats will be up, and some of them will be open seats (the two at-large seats aren't up until 2021). In District 4, Rob Johnson announced earlier this...
Just before Thanksgiving, housing advocates got some good news as Seattle Hearing Examiner Ryan Vancil released a ruling mostly in favor of the City's Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) rezones.
The reason why MHA isn't the law of the land in most of Seattle's urban villages and...
Neighborhood Street Fund applications are due today (Monday, November 19th), so there's still time to get yours in and potentially win a grant for your street improvement project.
The City's website lists the following guidelines for proposals:
"Any transportation-related improvement in...
The suspense is over as Amazon made it official yesterday that its headquarters expansion will be to Arlington, Virginia and to New York City. Twenty cities made Amazon's finalist list, but surprise, surprise the company chose the two cities where CEO Jeff Bezos already own homes.
Ultimately, Washington State Democrats did not pass a bill lowering car tab valuations last session despite Republicans and drive-time conservative radio hosts driving a lot of uproar about it. Some predicted this would spell doom for suburban Democrats. That didn't happen in the midterms. Instead, Democrats were...
Let's start with the bad news. Initiative 1631 did not pass and Washington state will not have a fee on carbon pollution to invest a billion dollars per year in clean energy. Other progressive-minded ballot initiatives had a solid night though. I-940 (a police accountability measure) passed...
