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Civics and Culture

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...

Book Awards Event, 10/12: Free & Open to the Public

Saturday, Oct. 12, 2019, 7 – 9 p.m.Seattle Central Library, Level 1: Microsoft AuditoriumFree The title kind of says it all. It's like the Oscars,...

The Boring Truths (It’s Not That Bad)

This post is a care package for my colleagues and anyone else who was scared or otherwise put off by a recent spate of...

Sunday Video: The Real Cost of Cruises

https://youtu.be/0nCT8h8gO1g Hasan Minhaj explains the downsides of the growing cruise ship industry.

A Bus Driver Kind of Mind

Why do I love scruffiness, when I am not scruffy? Because these are the strangers who are consistently nicest to me, who treat me plainly,...

Midweek Video: Why Europe Doesn’t Build Skyscrapers

https://youtu.be/EVJ_rgEUSJE In this video, The B1M explains why European cities do not typically build skyscrapers while the rest of the world is increasingly doing so....

Sunday Video: Kelo v. New London

https://youtu.be/9eZKcPwWVgs Mr. Beat explains the famous land use case over eminent domain in Kelo v. City of New London.

Strife in the Afternoon: Nathan on Fights

It all started so innocently. Each person meant well, but each had a stress inside them, a bitterness, that they turned on the others...