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Andrew Engelson

Andrew Engelson
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Andrew Engelson is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor with over 20 years of experience. Most recently serving as News Director/Deputy Assistant at the South Seattle Emerald, Andrew was also the founder and editor of Cascadia Magazine. His journalism, essays, and writing have appeared in the South Seattle Emerald, The Stranger, Crosscut, Real Change, Seattle Weekly, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the Seattle Times, Washington Trails, and many other publications. He’s passionate about narrative journalism on a range of topics, including the environment, climate change, social justice, arts, culture, and science. He’s the winner of several first place awards from the Western Washington Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.  
Called “Run-of-the-Mill NIMBY” in Court, Delays Mount As Existing Condos Sue for Views. Using lawsuits and an aggressive opposition campaign in Seattle’s design review process, a small...
A wide street flanked by a narrow sidewalk.
Over ten years, the number of fatal crashes in eight South Sound cities has nearly tripled. In a year when traffic fatalities in Washington state...
A Stay Housed rally with a "Housing is the Cure" banner at Seattle City Hall with a crowd of about 50.
In 2022, the Stay Housed Stay Healthy Coalition successfully pushed passage of a suite of renter protections in five cities across King County and...
The elevated station gleams as the sun is going down over a busy freeway trench.
The South King County city has ambitious goals, but a car-centered landscape will be difficult to transform. Walking the area near the Tukwila International Boulevard...
Ballot initiative would put the South King County city on par with Seattle and SeaTac Seeking to address regional gaps in the minimum wage, a...
The intersection of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Othello Street.
The neighborhood near the Othello Link light rail station in Seattle’s South End has seen an impressive boom in market-rate and affordable rate housing...
A photo of an empty lot with
A Host of Market-Rate and Affordable Projects Are in the Works Rainier Beach has long been one of Seattle’s most diverse and affordable neighborhoods. But...