2022 General Election Endorsements
A month of wildfires and smoky, polluted skies have set a somber mood this election season, but perhaps that’s apropos. It really is time...
An Urbanist Vision for Seattle’s Third Avenue
Third Avenue in downtown Seattle is a place where many a plan goes to die, and yet the planning efforts keep stacking up. The...
Downtown and Rose Hill: Kirkland’s Corridor of Dense New Development
After Totem Lake, a neighborhood that is experiencing a spree of significant growth, the next notable constellation of new commercial and residential development in...
Workers on the Frontlines of the Homelessness Crisis Deserve a Living Wage, Not Poverty...
Cops often earn triple the salaries of Seattle's social service workers; pay inequity is undermining the city's response to homelessness.
Seattle's response to homelessness hinges...
Draft Bellevue Budget Includes Growth in Revenues, Transportation, Police, and More
Fall is here, and though the days getting shorter, the city council meetings are getting longer as chief executives from local jurisdictions each put...
Totem Lake Shoulders Kirkland’s Transformation and Growth
Yet designing for cars continues to be a problem in the city's fastest growing neighborhood.
When cataloging development in Kirkland, it's evident where the City...
Snohomish County Leadership Group Squashes Alternatives to Paine Field Light Rail Routing
County Executive Dave Somers steamrolled opposition and led a vote to make a longer, more expensive routing to Boeing and Paine Field the only...
Highway Expansion May Hinder Plans to Reconnect South Park
Momentum has been building around Reconnect South Park, a community-led effort to address how SR 99 slices through the neighborhood located near the Duwamish...