Doug Trumm

Doug Trumm
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Doug Trumm is publisher of The Urbanist. An Urbanist writer since 2015, he dreams of pedestrian streets, bus lanes, and a mass-timber building spree to end our housing crisis. He graduated from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington in 2019. He lives in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood and loves to explore the city by foot and by bike.
DACA Holder Gets ICE'd: The white nationalist empire struck back as ICE detained Daniel Ramirez Medina, a DACA holder, on what appears to be trumped...
Yesterday both the City of Seattle and Community Package Coalition told the planners of the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition that the public benefit...
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Late-night bus service is poised to get a major upgrade this year. The Night Owl route network will get a boost in service hours...

What Upzoning Can Do

"The solution: Americans, together and all at once, would have to stop thinking about their homes as an investment," Conor Dougherty wrote in The Upshot this past...
Uber has been in the news lately for offering cities a smidgen of their data on traffic patterns. Like so many things with Uber,...
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