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Mapping Historic Ballard: Shingletown To Tomorrow Call For Volunteers

It’s time to hit the streets for the survey portion of the Mapping Historic Ballard portion of the Department of Neighborhood’s Small & Simple...

Sunday Video: Shipwrecks of Lake Union

The Center for Wooden Boats (CWB) shares a piece of Lake Union's hidden history. Long a place of maritime industry, and now home to new industries and...

Highway Mission Creep

Last week, I wrote about the progress of the highway funding bill through Congress. A few politicians—Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Rick Santorum—don't want...

Event: Mapping Historic Ballard

The Ballard Historical Society (BHS) is ramping up on a great program to document the more than 100-years past of the former independent city turned North Seattle neighborhood....

Fridaygram: From Railway Yards and Dilapidated Parking Lots to Millennium Park

In 1998, the Mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daley announced a vision to redevelop the rail tracks and dilapidated surface car park that consumed...

Sunday Video: The Real Reason Jaywalking Is A Crime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxopfjXkArM Adam Ruins Everything at College Humor puts together a cynical and accurate look at how our cities' laws shifted from prioritizing people to prioritizing cars.

Saving Shorty’s: It’s An Uphill Battle

Today the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Board will do what it does on a very regular basis: hear arguments regarding a local building or institution,...

Ballard Walking Tour Recap (In Tweets!)

Saturday turned out to be a great morning for a walking tour in Ballard. The sun was out, our group was engaged, and the streets...