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.
The suspense is over as Amazon made it official yesterday that its headquarters expansion will be to Arlington, Virginia and to New York City....
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...
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...
Well it's Election Day and polls close at 8pm. Find your nearest ballot box here or drop it in the mail box in time to...
We have an enormous opportunity. Washington state could do something really meaningful to address climate change by passing a ballot initiative pricing carbon. I-1631...
Remember how the federal government has a four trillion dollar annual budget, but somehow has only peanuts left over for low-income housing? The US...
This spring, California toyed with passing SB 827, an ambitious zoning preemption bill authored by State Senator Scott Wiener that would have allowed five-story...
Mayor Jenny Durkan delivered her first budget address today at Fire Station 10. While the mayor had broadcast her desire to trim department budgets...