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Civics and Culture

Sunday Video: Why So Many New Buildings Are Covered in Rectangles

https://youtu.be/Ml-ZP-_e_o4 Vox explores why so many new buildings seem to prominently feature rectangular panels as exterior cladding.

Midweek Video: MASS Talks Seattle Squeeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWG5VTkRHk In this video, City Inside/Out interviews members of the Move All Seattle Sustainably (MASS) coalition about the Seattle Squeeze and what the city could do...

The View From Nathan’s Bus: Nathan in DSA’s Democratic Left Magazine On Seattle’s Crises

I don't consider myself a political creature. The transformation of my perspectives into political views is always a transformation of reduction. I find people...

Seattle Stagnated on Vision Zero in 2018, Preliminary Crash Data Shows

Preliminary data from the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) shows the total number of serious injuries and fatalities on Seattle's streets was virtually unchanged...

Of Kindness and Cow Manure

  "You know what it smelled like, it smelled like those stink bombs kids use. It smelled like that." I said, "those are terrible!" Sometimes the conversations...

Formative

"How was your evening, Mister Ernie?" What ends up being formative? Do we know, in the moment? Sometimes it can be as fleeting as somebody's...
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Don’t Blame Density for Pandemics

If you're a newspaper columnist or governor of New York, a pandemic is a great time to trot out medieval myths, repackage them like...

KVRU Interview: Nathan on Route 7 RapidRide

KVRU's Simon Kidde (a friend, and the son of another friend!) sits down with myself and Metro's Robyn Austin to discuss the impending transition...