Civics and Culture

We talked about all manner of things. Charles went by Leonard too, interchangeably, though I never learned the reason why; a middle and a first...

Across the world cities are taking bold measures to make it safer to walk and bike for transportation during the COVID-19 epidemic and beyond....

Two things were missing from Thursday evening’s virtual North Seattle Community Needs Town Hall with Mayor Jenny Durkan. There was no aggressive timeline for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajSEIdjkU8E&t=83s In a relatively short video, Dave Amos, the presenter of City Beautiful, examines the problems of exclusive single-family zoning. He challenges the paradigm, urging...

There wasn't even a pandemic happening when we had this conversation. How quaint. How fabulous. There was a pandemic during our shorter subsequent conversation, wherein we go over everyone's...

Being evicted for nonpayment of rent won't really be a thing for Seattle tenants in 2020--at least if tenants assert the rights they won...

After several months of cancellations due to the pandemic, we are relaunching our monthly meetups online this month with Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis...

https://youtu.be/P27HRClMf2U Vox explains what masks can actually do to reduce transmission of diseases like COVID-19 and what people should know about them.