Seattle Center: A Hub For Entertainment And Transit

By 2035, there will be a light rail stop servicing Seattle Center. It is hard to imagine there will be another major construction project...

Rockin’ the In-Between

The sensation was that of riding on air, a wave of euphoria whose origin I could hardly trace. I told them about the reroute. This...

Sunday Video: Behind the Scenes on the Seattle Streetcar

https://youtu.be/AKnglLROr6M https://youtu.be/cp9Wi6arkHo Hear what John and Calvin have to say about operating and maintaining the Seattle Streetcar system.

City Council Passes Library Levy Renewal Proposition, Selects Pacheco as Interim Councilmember

On Monday, the Seattle City Council approved several significant pieces of legislation and welcomed a new temporary member to the body. Council adopted a...

Nathan Vass Author Event

​Tuesday, January 15, 7pm. Elliott Bay Bookstore. Free. Details and directions here. Did you miss my book launch? Probably not, since there were a million people there......

Building the Compassionate City

We shape our cities, and afterwards our cities shape us, to paraphrase Winston Churchill. In this, he eloquently drew a line between the built...
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Bellevue Council Update: Supporting Retail, Fostering Cross-Cultural Connections, and Rules on Remote Participation

Bellevue is continuing the trend of Eastside cities analyzing their retail sectors, and their City Council is doing so without enacting a development moratorium....

Compassion Seattle Fires Back as Charter Amendment Faces Second Lawsuit

Seattle voters wait for a judicial decision that will determine if the controversial city charter amendment critics call an unfunded mandate masquerading as a...