Civics and Culture

Protestors gather behind a police barricade at the East Precinct building, chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot,” on Sunday, May 31.

OPA Confirms SPD Orchestrated Proud Boys in the CHOP Hoax, Recommends No Punishment

A Seattle Office of Police Accountability (OPA) report released last week belatedly confirmed what Spekulation and some other activists said happened in the summer...

Symphony No. 2 in Perfect Grammar

Not all of the conversations I have on the bus are the gleeful bastardizations of syntax which I often record– and which are no...

Midweek Video: The Global Coffee Crisis Is Coming

https://youtu.be/6IN4ZcZAUbA Global climate change is brewing a crisis for growing coffee. As annual temperatures rise, coffee plants are being threatened with mass withering. The global...

Seahawks 2016 Divisional Series Outlook

Hey fellow 12s! Here is a quick ELO summary of the 2015 season and wildcard game for your Seattle Seahawks. By Fivethirtyeight’s week-to-week ELO score,...

Map of the Week: Restrooms for All

The Seattle City Auditor's report on the Navigation Team, recently presented to the city council's Civil Rights, Utilities, Economic Development, and Arts Committee, included...

Of Libraries, Parks, Book Stores, and Cinemas: Tacoma’s Social Infrastructre

In a previous installment, I wrote about the strain put on sidewalks when cities privatize, sell off, fail to maintain, or don’t care to...

Action Alert: Build the Center City Connector Streetcar

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has put a pause on construction of Center City Connector (CCC): The only high capacity transit project planned within downtown...
Folks walk the beach as the Washington State ferry comes in. Cars wait on the dock.

Policy Lab: We Want Bread, and Paid Vacation Too!

Most advanced nations mandate at least 20 working days of paid vacation per year, but not the United States. Here's why we should change that.