Café Streets: From Pandemic Response to Permanent Program
The Seattle City Council is considering a bill to extend cafe street and outdoor dining permits until January 2023. The popular program arose during...
State Should Invest $99 Million to Address SR-99’s Many Problems
Highway 99 has 99 problems. Aurora Avenue is an unsettled mix, part street where people interact with businesses and part highway shunting vehicles through...
Going It Alone with Affordable Housing Funds Not Yet Fruitful for Bellevue
Funding for an affordable housing project for domestic violence survivors moved forward with unanimous approval at Bellevue's most recent city council meeting. The new...
Draft Regional Transportation Plan Glosses Over Harmful Roadway Expansion
The Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC) has released a draft of the latest update to the central Puget Sound's regional transportation plan. Required to...
Shoreline Parks Bond Returns for February 8th Ballot
After being 122 votes short from being validated in the April 27, 2021 special election, the Shoreline Parks Bond is back for another shot...
Rental Assistance, Conflict Mediation Slowing Evictions in Bellevue – For Now
Much advocacy and media focus has been rightly granted to the newly-elected Mayor Bruce Harrell's one-month extension of Seattle's eviction moratorium. However, this level...
Urban Life in the Metaverse: Potential for Utopia or Wholly Unnecessary?
South Korea’s capital city of Seoul recently unveiled plans to become the first major city government with a solid foothold in the metaverse. Both a result...
Explainer: What’s an Environmental Impact Statement?
An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) sounds like a highly technical and complex mechanism of governance. They take years, spiral into hundreds of pages with...