Doug Trumm
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.
With seven house pick-ups and three in the senate, 2018 was a really good year for Democrats in Washington state. While some speculated Democrats...
Thank you to everyone who donated during our Fall Subscriber Drive. We gained 43 new subscribers and that goes a long way to making...
On October 14th, Governor Jay Inslee issued another extension of his eviction moratorium and rent freeze through the end of the year and also...
We invite you to join us for a Yes For Transit phonebank in support of Seattle's Proposition 1. The Urbanist co-hosted phonebank night is...
Mayor Jenny Durkan announced the membership of her hand-picked Equitable Community task force Wednesday and prominent Black-led group like King County Equity Now and...
The Washington Supreme Court ruled this morning that Initiative 976 violated the state constitution--twice, in fact--and struck it down accordingly. As a result, transportation...
Bellevue, Renton, Issaquah, Maple Valley, North Bend, Covington, Snoqualmie, and Kent voted to opt out of King County's homelessness measure by proposing their own...
During our subscriber drives, we look back at what we've been up to over the past year. 2020 didn't bring a lot of fuzzy...