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Civics and Culture

Sunlight Will Don First Hill I-5 Columns

Let there be light! Nathan Watkins' "Sunlight Over First Hill" mural theme has been selected amongst four other competing proposals to wrap some 70 support columns under...

Paul Constant On Nathan Vass, The Blogging Bus Driver

Paul Constant is (among other things!) the co-founder of the excellent The Seattle Review of Books. He recently interviewed me for his site. We...

Futurewise Awards Celebrate Equity-Centered Environmentalism

Supporters, colleagues and elected officials gathered at Seattle's Westin Hotel for Futurewise's Spring Breakfast Livable Community Awards on March 2nd. The awards lifted up six groups...

Field of Dreams: A Missed Opportunity To Change Course On Homeless Sweeps

As I write this, city officials are conducting a sweep of The Field of Dreams, a homeless encampment next to an I-90 overpass in...

You Can Help Pick Colorful Columns For I-5 In First Hill

I-5 is known for its colorful overpass columns in certain parts of Seattle, but the First Hill Improvement Association (FHIA) wants to bring a...

Help Shape Your Neighborhood’s Street Improvements

Last month we wrote about a new process that the Department of Neighborhoods (DoN) is engaging in to allocate neighborhood grants focused on street &...

Sunday Video: A Farm Remains

Despite nearly a century of growth and change, a farm remains in Rainier Beach, but you almost wouldn't know it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vH6YIIhTmg

Make Your Voice Heard On HALA Consider.It

Do you want to see something sad? According to a slide prepared for a meeting of largely anti-HALA (Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda) people,...