Puget Sound Energy Rate Increase Would Fund Harmful Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Residential Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers could see electric bills surge by more than 20% and gas bills by almost 17%. Later this month,...
Tacoma Council Proposes Buffer Zones Around Homeless Shelters, Additional Sweeps
Back in May 2017, the City Council of Tacoma declared a public health emergency related to homeless encampments. The following month, the Council passed...
Tacoma’s Zoning Changes Mapped: Battlegrounds and Obstacle Courses
Tacomans contend with their streets and roads
This is the last of three vignettes depicting possible conversations between imaginary people in Tacoma as the city...
Tacoma’s Zoning Changes Mapped: Food Divide
This is the second of three vignettes depicting possible conversations between imaginary people in Tacoma as the city grapples with growth, densification, and other...
Pierce County Nearing Final Allocation of 20-Year Growth Targets With Tacoma As Breadwinner
Pierce County is close to allocating its growth targets to local municipalities and unincorporated areas. In total, the county is supposed to accommodate 264,785...
A Vision for Better Bus Rapid Transit Planning in Tacoma
Pierce Transit’s first bus rapid transit (BRT) line remains in the design phase, the first line of a system in Pierce County called Stream....
Tacoma’s Zoning Changes Mapped: Frequency Is Freedom
This is the first of three vignettes depicting possible conversations between imaginary people in Tacoma as the city grapples with growth, densification, and other...
Ways to Support and Engage with Black Urbanism in Seattle and Tacoma
The first Juneteenth may have been celebrated in 1866, but the holiday memorializing the liberation of America's last enslaved people after the end of...