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Plans and Policy

Inslee’s Proposes $7,500 Electric Car Rebate and $1,000 E-Bike Rebate in $626 Million Climate...

Transit continues to take a back seat, and investments in walking, rolling, and biking are at the symbolic rather than transformative level. Governor Jay Inslee...

City Considers Municipal Bank

The Seattle City Council held a briefing Wednesday afternoon on the creation of a municipal bank. Councilmember Licata, chair of the Finance and Culture...

A Dozen Bills to Watch as Legislative Deadlines Loom

The Washington State Legislature crams its session into sixty days in even years, allowing lawmakers to dedicate more of the year to their campaigns,...

Dow Constantine Issues Executive Order: We Need Full Integration of Bus and Rail

Dow Constantine is on fire. The King County Executive, first elected in 2009, made the headlines on Tuesday for vetoing Councilmember Rod Dembowski's proposal...
Youth climate activists rally in front of Seattle City Hall. (Photo by author)

Climate Leaders Are Hammering Out the Details of Seattle’s Green New Deal

"We're on the right side of history, the Green New Deal," sang the Seattle Raging Grannies during public comment at the beginning of yesterday's...

Growth Plan Falls Short of Seattle’s Needs, Planning Commission Says

The Seattle Planning Commission has given the proposed One Seattle Comprehensive Plan a once-over. The reviews are not good.
A rendering shows the elevated 14th Avenue NW alignment for Ballard Link.

Dubicki: Begging Seattle To Do Something Right Is Utterly Exhausting

For the last five months, a double-digit percentage of my time was spent working through two of Seattle’s larger Draft Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)....

Seattle Income Tax Comes Into Focus

The Seattle income tax on high-income earners has formally been introduced to the City Council. The proposed income tax would generally kick in at...