Op-Ed: Building Toward a Greener, Housing-Abundant Seattle
Housing growth and tree canopy growth can go hand in hand. In fact, a closer look at Seattle's recent history shows they often do. Here's how to build on that trend.
Opinion
Op-Ed: Brian Heywood’s Plan to Take Over Snohomish County Government Must Be Stopped
Two 2026 charter amendments are at the heart of a Republican megadonor's plan to take over Snohomish County. If they pass, it would have rippling impacts on transit expansion, housing growth, and safe streets investments, making it easier for Republicans to block progress.
Op-Ed: Seattle Press Are Concocting a False Narrative to Undermine Mayor Wilson
Whether a doomed recall effort or a delayed press conference, mainstream news outlets like KOMO and KIRO keep giving oxygen to dead stories in an effort to smear Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson. Don’t fall for the spin.
Op-Ed: From the Bargaining Table to Olympia, Educators Need Our Support Now
Seattle's teachers union is fighting for a better contract, with reducing class sizes and preventing special education cuts among top aims. It's an issue state legislators have long let fester, says Kelabe Tewolde, an educator and state House candidate in the 37th LD.
Op-Ed: Washington’s Primary Election Results Underscore the Case for Proportional Ranked Choice Voting
Primary results show Washington voters don’t like the two-party system. With proportional ranked choice voting, Washington voters could have a multiparty system.
Op-Ed: The Washington Legislature Must Reform SEPA to Save the Growth Management Act
Seattle reformed SEPA land use appeals, but more work remains to clear obstacles at the project level. Patrick Taylor lays out some further reforms for state legislators to pursue.
Op-Ed: Land Value Capture Could Fund Ballard Light Rail
Ballard Link faces a multi-billion-dollar budget shortfall, but one revenue tool could help get the project back on track: a value capture strategy using tax-increment financing. Here's how that would work.
Op-Ed: How Pike Place Market Can Thrive in the Winter Without Car Traffic
SDOT is weighing a plan that would fully reopen Pike Place to cars Monday through Thursday from October to March. Here why that approach is wrong and how the Market will thrive with year-round pedestrianization.
Op-Ed: Give Ballard a Sounder Stop While It Waits for Light Rail
With Sound Transit's failure to deliver light rail to Ballard by 2035 as originally promised, now is the moment for Sound Transit and Seattle to build a no-frills, quick-build station near the Ballard Locks to connect people to Sounder commuter rail service that’s already up and running.
Op-Ed: With MHA Reform In Vogue, Unaddressed Utility Costs Loom
While a tabled effort to reform Mandatory Housing Affordability fees has stolen the limelight lately, reforming utility fees to ease the burden on builders would have the larger stimulus on homebuilding. Parker Dawson lays out why.
Op-Ed: Progressives Are Winning the Future of Washington's Legislature
While Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat claims progressives “fizzled” in Washington state because a few primary challengers trailed, Kamau Chege argues that analysis is flawed, ignoring other wins that show the left is wresting control of the party.
Op-Ed: State Lawmakers Must Step Up Wildfire Alleviation Efforts
Much more work needs to be done to keep Washingtonians safe from forest fires. State Rep. Shaun Scott shares his plan, building on his recently passed Wildfire Alleviation Support Act.
Op-Ed: Chief Shon Barnes Wasn’t a Martyr; He Was the Status Quo
Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes wasn’t a martyr; he embodied the status quo, and Mayor Katie Wilson was right to oust him and push for true police accountability, argues Cliff Cawthon, a longtime community advocate in Seattle.
Op-Ed: Sound Transit Gave Us a Ballard Date. Here’s How To Accelerate It.
Sound Transit recently revealed light rail won't reach Ballard until "around 2060" without further intervention. Seattle Subway lays out a path to greatly accelerate this delivery date, which they call “wildly unacceptable.”
Op-Ed: Vote Gabe Rothstein for Seattle Municipal Court
Seattle voters have an opportunity to reform one of the state's most powerful and dysfunctional courts: Seattle Municipal Court. Voters should seize this opportunity and elect Gabe Rothstein, a career public defender with significant judicial experience.
Op-Ed: Federal Transportation Policy Is Growing Unhinged Under Trump
America Walks is urging Congress to block federal transportation funding reauthorization until the Whitehouse can prove that it is following the law and disbursing funding Congress has allocated to transit, bike, and pedestrian projects.
Op-Ed: Join the Children’s Political Table in Voting to Empower Kids
Public schools, early learning, and child care have suffered deep cuts in recent sessions, and Washington State continues to face a major budget shortfall. A new coalition lays out the case for a pro-kids majority that will protect the programs families rely on.
Op-Ed: Hannah Sabio-Howell is the Leader LD43 Needs
State Representative Shaun Scott and Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck explain why they're voting for Hannah Sabio-Howell for state Senate.
Op-Ed: Too Easy for Whom?
Some have suggested that King County Best Starts for Kids grants are too easy to obtain, which overlooks the bureaucratic burden the process already places on small nonprofits, which is only getting worse with new stipulations.
Op-Ed: A Multiuse Path Building Spree Can Tackle Sidewalk Deserts
Multiuse paths can provide safe bike and pedestrian access to the broad areas of our cities lacking basic sidewalks. Travis Merrigan lays out their advantages, which includes being quicker and cheaper to deploy.
Op-Ed: Bellevue Must Invest in Safe Routes to Stations in Light Rail Era
Join the SAFE Bellevue Coalition in sending a letter to city leaders to show your support for a future-focused Bellevue budget that is committed to reducing the high rate of serious injuries on our streets.
Op-Ed: The Data Says Seattle’s High Earners Tax Is Working, Despite Whining from Big Business
The Downtown Seattle Association recently released a “report” that was meant to convince us that taxes on high earners are smothering the Seattle economy. Here’s why their analysis is flat wrong.
Op-Ed: We Can’t Afford to Shrink the Seattle Transit Measure
Join transit advocates rallying to defend the Seattle Transit Measure proposal from cuts at a public hearing on Monday, July 13. Attend the rally or send in a letter ahead of the big vote to send the package to voters.
Op-Ed: Why Spokane Needs to Keep Its Transit Momentum
Spokane County voters have an opportunity to fund transit service with a 0.2% sales tax renewal on their August 4th ballot. Here's how you can help put the measure over the top.
Op-Ed: How the Seattle Transit Measure Can Benefit All
Transit Riders Union's survey of nearly 500 people showed the importance of investing in transit and can help guide investments to maximize benefits from the expanded Seattle Transit Measure going to voters in the fall.
Op-Ed: Seattle Needs Car-Free Streets
The state passed a shared streets law in 2025, and it's time for Seattle to seize the opportunity and reclaim streets for people. Half measures aren't cutting it.
Op-Ed: Yet Another Deadly Rainier Valley Crash Points to Need for Protected Bike Lanes
The tragic death of elementary school teacher Christian Salyer underscores that the City has neglected the safe bike network in South Seattle too long. It’s time to change that.
Op-Ed: ‘Seattle Atlas’ Can Demystify Zoning, Build Case for More Housing
Seattle Atlas is an interactive map that shows zoning, transit infrastructure, and bike lanes, so Seattleites can see for themselves what our city is doing well and where we are lacking.
Op-Ed: Help Seattle Get the Frequent Transit Network We Deserve
The Move All Seattle Sustainability Coalition is calling on City Council to approve Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed Seattle Transit Measure renewal to fund vastly more bus service and expand fare subsidies to the lowest income Seattleites. Here's why.
Op-Ed: Let’s Accelerate Stalled Progress on the Seattle Bike Network
Seattle’s pace of new protected bike lane openings is too slow. Cascade Bicycle Club is launching a campaign to urge the mayor and SDOT to jumpstart the pace of investment.
Op-Ed: To Save Mandatory Housing Affordability, We Have to Recalibrate It
Nonprofit housing leader Patience Malaba makes the case that a temporary, two-year recalibration of Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program is critical to unfreeze the stalled-out housing pipeline, generate needed affordable housing revenue, and save MHA's very legitimacy.
Op-Ed: How Redlining Housing Discrimination Continues to Impact Seattle Today
Racist maps that U.S. federally backed banks used to deny mortgages to communities of color have a long legacy. Elijah Wright's Redlining Reimagined project seeks to lay bare that sordid history.
Op-Ed: The Case for Shifting to a Land Value Tax
Seattle's property tax system has serious shortcomings, but Aaron Schechter explains how shifting to a land value tax could address them and encourage homebuilding.
Op-Ed: Bellevue’s Wilburton Housing Policy Actually Builds Housing
One year in, the Wilburton rezone is becoming a regional model. Thanks to a funded inclusionary zoning program, Wilburton attracted applications for more than 2,300 apartments, more than Seattle logged citywide in 2025.
Op-Ed: It's Time to Reform Sound Transit
Robert Cruickshank explains the ballot initiative he has filed to reform Sound Transit's board governance, arguing the overhaul is needed to ensure ST3 rail expansions are delivered as promised.
Op-Ed: It’s Time for Vending in Link Stations
Most transit systems across the world have integrated retail within stations. It’s time for Sound Transit to join the party by streamlining its fledgling vendor program.
33 Bookstores. 10 Days. No Car. An Urbanist’s Guide to Independent Bookstore Day
To meet the Independent Bookstore Day challenge, two book worms used transit to visit 33 bookstores scattered around the Puget Sound region in just 10 days. Here's how they did it and what they learned.
Op-Ed: The Case Against Slashing Seattle’s Housing Affordability Fees
Habitat for Humanity’s Ryan Donahue opines against the proposal to temporarily slash builder fees in Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program, arguing housing solutions can't come at the expense of low-income folks.
Op-Ed: The Orca Whales Didn’t Hire Toby Thaler
Seattle activists trying to block growth incorrectly blame new housing for the threat to orcas, instead of the biggest culprit: cars and the sea of pavement carrying them. Paul Beard lays out how they went wrong.
Op-Ed: Sound Transit’s Board is About to Vote on a Fantasy
Given obstacles from the Trump administration, West Seattle Link will not break ground anytime soon. Before any vote overhauling the Sound Transit 3 plan, the board owes the region revised, evidence-based dates for every project, Trevor Reed contends.
Op-Ed: South King County Deserves the Light Rail Stations It Was Promised
The Sound Transit Board will soon decide whether to deliver on the decades-old promise to South King County to build light rail stations at Boeing Access Road and Graham Street. They should not break their promise again, writes King County Councilmember Rhonda Lewis.
Op-Ed: Starbucks Execs Pull Out of Seattle to Exploit Regressive Tennessee
“What’s Nashville have that we ain’t got in Seattle?” New Jim Crow, strict abortion ban, union-busting, low wages, unchecked poverty, and gun deaths in spades. Just what Starbucks was looking for, John Burbank opines.
Op-Ed: Trailhead Direct Transit Is Great. It Can Be Even Better.
King County should expand its wildly popular Trailhead Direct transit shuttle service. Here are a handful of ways to enhance service and get even more hikers and bikers to regional trailheads.
Op-Ed: Urging Transit Officials to Join the 2026 Week Without Driving
Riding the bus regularly can help officials make better policy decisions. Nondrivers Alliance wants your help to invite them to participate in the annual Week Without Driving this fall.
Op-Ed: The Case for a Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
With the price of a gallon of gas jumping two dollars in Washington state over the last few months, John Burbank argues it’s high time to institute a windfall profits tax on Big Oil, as they profiteer off Trump’s war in Iran with record revenue.
Op-Ed: Speak Up for Community Option for Woodland Park Playfields by May 9
Seattle Public Schools' options to expand athletic fields at Woodland Park all have major drawbacks, and neighbors are pushing a “Community Alternative” repurposing a gravel parking lot. Weigh in via SPS’s public survey by May 9.
Op-Ed: Three Proven Strategies for a People-Centered Puget Sound from Barcelona to Bogotá
From pedestrian superblocks to a betterment tax, proven policies from Barcelona to Bogotá could help the Seattle region maximize communal benefits of light rail buildout.
Op-Ed: Seattle's Convention Center Should Be a Public Commons, Not an Underused Corporate Plaything
Seattle should convert its Arch Convention Center to a public commons where residents can gather without the need for an overpriced ticket and box lunch. With convention business limping along, the city must get better use out of this space.
Op-Ed: Seattle Must Fund MHA Inclusionary Zoning or Axe It
Seattle YIMBY lays out the case for overhauling Seattle's MHA inclusionary zoning program, with funding to offset builder costs in high-density zones, and a repeal of the affordability requirements in lowrise zones.
Op-Ed: Join the Save Ballard Rail March on April 19
Transit advocates will march from Ballard to Smith Cove to draw attention to Sound Transit's plans to jettison this section of light rail, promised in the ST3 ballot measure.
Op-Ed: Reconnect and Automate Ballard to West Seattle Rail to Save ST3
Sound Transit can halve the cost of light rail to Ballard and West Seattle by building them as a connected automated light rail line with slimmer stations, according to two transit experts who have launched the Sound Transit Now campaign.
Op-Ed: Night Court Could Help Seattle Deliver Timely Justice
Seattle’s courts face a simple challenge: the number of cases far exceeds available courtroom hours. Night court could help move cases more efficiently, improve access to justice, and ensure compliance with Washington’s strict speedy-trial requirements.
Op-Ed: Dear Ferguson, Call a Special Session, Play Offense, Not Defense, Prevent Austerity
John Burbank argues Governor Bob Ferguson should call a special session to ensure universal health care and child care in the face of Trump’s devastating federal cuts. Taxing corporate oligarchs could provide the revenue necessary.
Op-Ed: Washington Is Caught in a Property Tax Trap. Here's the Way Out.
Here's the case for lifting Washington state's 1% lid on property tax levy hikes while at the same time implementing a homestead protection for primary residences and a renter's tax credit to shift the burden away from working families.
Op-Ed: Washington State Must Accelerate Amtrak Rail Upgrades
The Washington State Department of Transportation has a public survey out on the 2025 State Rail Plan through April 24. Let them know that improving frequency, reliability, and connections for Amtrak service is a priority.
Op-Ed: Help Us Fight for the Bold Housing Plan Seattle Deserves
Join advocates for a housing rally at noon Monday, April 6th before City Council’s first public hearing on Phase 2 of Seattle’s growth plan. Here’s how we can improve the plan to promote housing affordability and abundance.
Op-Ed: 2 Line Launch Should Have Us Dreaming Bigger for the South End
The recent opening of Judkins Park Station is a big step forward for transit access, but Seattle's South End must not be left behind in the next round of light rail expansion.
Op-Ed: Latvia Shows Path to Break Car Dependence
By framing a reduction of reliance on Russian oil as a matter of national security, Latvia offers a useful example of how to reduce car dependency and make real our climate goals. Latvia's ubiquitous and frequent transit network was on display during my recent visit.
Op-Ed: Finding Smart Solutions to Sound Transit Budget Woes
Taking lessons from the YIMBY movement, Robert Cruickshank charts a path forward to build out the 116 miles of light rail promised to voters in the Sound Transit 3 ballot measure, leveraging popular support to press for additional funding and lasting reforms to control costs.
Op-Ed: Why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Is Rebranding as Seattle Streets Alliance
After 15 years fighting for safe streets, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways is excited to become Seattle Streets Alliance to more accurately reflect the nature of our grassroots organization’s mission. Here’s what this changes means.
Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway
Cities must commit to downsizing their highway networks if they intend to meet climate and livability goals and expand housing in a healthy and equitable manner. Seattle must lead the way.
Op-Ed: Issaquah’s Plan to Build Its Rail Line Faster and Cheaper
Civic leaders from Issaquah say they’re ready to deliver a light rail line that costs less, a station area that generates ridership through housing rather than garages, and a city that is ready to share the work with Sound Transit rather than just make demands.
Op-Ed: Why HB 2442 is a Lifeline for Cash-Strapped King County
King County is staring down a fiscal cliff that threatens to dismantle the services our communities rely on most. Port Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa lays out the case for passing House Bill 2442 to give counties another revenue tool to address their fiscal challenges.
Op-Ed: Washington Legislature, Don’t Reverse the Estate Tax
Economic justice advocate John Burbank lays out the case for Washington state lawmakers to keep the estate tax, rather than capitulating to pressure to reduce Washington’s rate to avoid a feared exodus of billionaires and multimillionaires.
Op-Ed: Pierce County Must Run a Transit Ballot Measure in 2026
The Pierce Transit Board is considering a ballot measure in November 2026 that would boost funding to expand bus service, make routes more frequent, and create new connections to light rail. Two advocacy leaders make the case for this measure.
Op-Ed: How to Fix Seattle’s Plan to Expand Lower Woodland Playfields
Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is seeking to add a new football/soccer hybrid field for Lincoln High School in Lower Woodland Park, but has chosen a plan that prioritizes parking over accessibility and events, scrapping a recently rebuilt soccer field and historic trees to cram two fields into a footp
Op-Ed: State Lawmakers Should Hold Amazon, Microsoft Accountable for Supporting Fascism
Amazon and Microsoft benefit handsomely from a tax loophole in the Workforce Education Investment Act. State lawmakers can end this tax giveaway to boost higher education funding. These tech giants donate millions to curry favor with the Trump administration and garner contracts in the hundreds of m
Op-Ed: Revive I-5 Is the Missed Off-Ramp from Car Dependence
Revive I-5 is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reduce car dependency and encourage transit, walking, rolling, and biking, but the Seattle region is letting it slip between its fingers. It’s not too late to fix that, opines Kadie Bell Sata.
Op-Ed: Why Housing Abundance is Key to Fighting Climate Change
Building more dense housing within vibrant walkable neighborhoods is a key climate strategy, argues IPCC author Michael Gillenwater. The Seattle Comprehensive Plan could further those opportunities.
Op-Ed: Will Bremerton Build Its First Protected Bike Lane?
Set to build its first protected bike lane, the City of Bremerton proposed a last-minute change to its otherwise excellent 6th Street design, stripping out more than half of the flex posts protecting people biking. But it’s not too late for the City Council to intervene.
Op-Ed: Shortening Seattle Park Hours Was Misguided, Failed to Promote Safety
Seattle’s Summer Safety Plan and its earlier closing time for city parks is bad news for people who count on evening park access, including artistic communities. Crime data does not support the claim that most parks are trouble spots, but they are vital spaces for many communities.
Op-Ed: How to Close Sound Transit’s 35-Billion-Dollar Gap Without Breaking the System
Sound Transit needs a systematic strategy for closing its $35 billion funding gap. Delivering the expansions promised to voters is possible, but requires political leadership and an appetite for a sea change within the agency. A former SDOT director offers a road map.
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Uproot ICE Penal Colonies Like Tacoma’s GEO
Washington state leaders should take action to force the closure of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement penal colony in Tacoma, which is carrying out the unlawful detention of 1500 people.
Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters
Seattle renters are largely locked out of cost-saving and comfort-improving clean energy appliances, like heat pumps, induction stoves, and solar panels. Sightline’s Emily Moore argues that newly inaugurated Mayor Katie Wilson could help change that, in part because Seattle owns its own electric uti
Op-Ed: Sea-Tac Airport Transportation: Off the Road and Onto the Train
With 46,000 workers commuting to the Seattle-Tacoma Airport every day, Commissioner Toshiko Hasegawa shares the Port of Seattle’s plans to improve transportation options and encourage transit use.
Op-Ed: Why Kitsap County Can’t Stop Sprawling
Washington State is forcing Kitsap County to re-do its Comprehensive Plan for lack of low-income housing, ignoring wildfire risk, and neglecting safe streets requirements. The do-over is a chance to turn away from sprawl, writes Travis Merrigan.
Op-Ed: Seattle’s Path to Fund Inclusionary Zoning and Boost Homebuilding
Funded inclusionary zoning unlocks the benefits of inclusionary zoning while offsetting its harms. It’s a path to more market-rate housing and more subsidized affordable housing. While funded inclusionary zoning risks creating a dangerous rift in our pro-housing coalition, amending this policy to al
Op-Ed: A Tale of Two Cities — Why Do Plazas Empty Us?
Cities should overhaul their approach to plazas to create places where people can really belong and linger, argues urban researcher Jae Seong Cho, who points to the shortcomings of Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Plaza and Los Angeles’ Grand Park to illustrate his point.
Op-Ed: Make Seattle a Dog City for Everyone
People experiencing homelessness face huge hurdles to owning dogs and other pets while navigating social services. But Caleb Sinéad Shapiro argues it doesn’t have to be this way.
Op-Ed: Defer Seattle’s Second Downtown Rail Tunnel to Save ST3
Tabling a second light rail tunnel through Downtown Seattle and redesigning Ballard Link to use the existing tunnel could save $4.5 billion, and Sound Transit has been too quick to dismiss the idea, Scott Kubly argues. The money saved could reduce delays and fund important transit upgrades elsewhere
Op-Ed: It’s Time to Imagine a Safer, More Connected Rainier Avenue
Rainier Avenue has too many cars traveling at dangerous speeds, but conventional planning practices make it hard to change that and design a future where Rainier Avenue thrives. Let’s stop making harmful assumptions, Anna Zivarts writes.
Op-Ed: Seattle Monorail Should Honor Transfers, Be Treated Like Real Transit
The Seattle Monorail should serve local residents, not just tourists. Unfortunately, the plan to end transfer credits in 2026 will gouge local riders and discourage ridership. The City should demand that monorail honor transfers between other transit services.
Op-Ed: Looking Back at the Movement That Elected Katie Wilson
John Burbank looks back to a series of progressive victories that paved the way for the most significant mayoral victory in Seattle over the past 100 years, with Katie Wilson about to take office.
Op-Ed: Sound Transit’s Station Naming Policy Has Run Amok Again
With three “downtown” stations and counting, Sound Transit must overhaul its station naming policy and name its stations less confusingly so that riders can easily navigate a growing system.
Op-Ed: Seattle Council Must Reject Harrell’s Police Guild Contract, Demand Accountability
Seattle’s proposed police union contract once again fails to deliver even the meager reforms and accountability promised eight years ago, opines Howard Gale. With Seattle City Council set to vote on the contract this month, here’s the case for rejecting it.
A Sneak Peek at Shared Streets Coming to Seattle
A trove of documents obtained from City of Seattle through public disclosure requests shows work is proceeding gradually but steadily inside the transportation department to take advantage of Washington State’s new Shared Streets Law. Pedestrianizing a number of streets could be around the corner.
The View From Nathan’s Bus: Remembering Why We Love Trolleys
Electric trolley buses remain the premier zero-emissions bus technology. They outperform trendy, newer battery electric buses for several reasons that Nathan Vass lays out.
Op-Ed: How Mobile Villages Could Tackle Seattle’s Homelessness Emergency
To fill in the gaps in the continuum of care for unhoused neighbors, the Seattle region should deploy mobile tiny house villages, argues Taiwo Adeptun. Managed mobile villages of tiny homes can rotate between eligible locations, providing a rapidly deployable option to get homeless people inside.
How Mayor-elect Wilson Can Hit the Ground Running, Walking, Rolling, and Biking
Seattle Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson’s transportation platform is bold and visionary, and she will need ongoing community support to achieve it. Seattle Neighborhood Greenways shares some ideas on how she can get started.
Op-Ed: Making Seattle Neighborhoods More Accessible by Design
Four case studies show how Seattle’s new middle housing zoning incentives align with demographic shifts to meet housing demand.
Op-Ed: Ferguson Must Back ‘Stand Up to Trump’ Rhetoric with Funding
The Trump administration is gutting health care, child care, and food stamps. John Burbank argues Governor Bob Ferguson should immediately call a special session of the Washington State Legislature to fund services that the federal government has cut by taxing the corporations and billionaires bankr
Op-Ed: Opioid Treatment Nurse Shares Why They Support Katie Wilson
An opioid treatment nurse shares why they support Katie Wilson for Seattle Mayor and trust her to address interlinked crises around housing, homelessness, and opiate addiction.
The View From Nathan’s Bus: The Harder Thing
Nathan Vass shares a vignette gleaned from driving buses for King County Metro in Seattle, talking with passengers, and absorbing street life happening around the bus route.
Op-Ed: Katie Wilson’s Civilian Safety Plan Would Unlock More Effective Police Department
Seattle has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to improve public safety outcomes by civilianizing more tasks and focusing police on major crime. That’s what mayoral candidate Katie Wilson’s public safety platform proposes, which Bryan Kirschner argues would be anti-bad guy, pro-good cop, and taxpayer-
Op-Ed: The Issues Facing Seattle Public Schools (and Incoming School Board Directors)
Public education advocate Melissa Westbrook breaks down the issues facing Seattle Public Schools as four of seven seats on the school board are up for grabs this election and a new superintendent is about to be installed.
Lin: Why I’m Proud to Earn the Working Families Party’s Endorsement
Eddie Lin announced the endorsement of the Washington Working Families Party and shared how the group helped him hone his stance on social housing.
Op-Ed: Why Seattle’s Housing Future Depends on You
The Urbanist and Tech4Housing are hosting a rally and mega-canvass Sunday in Columbia City for Seattle City Council candidates Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Dionne Foster, and Eddie Lin, City Attorney candidate Erika Evans, and mayoral candidate Katie Wilson. Join us to help put the urbanist slate over the
Op-Ed: Seattle’s MFTE Program 7 Widens Access and Participation
One local builder lays out the case for passing the City’s Multifamily Tax Exemption Program 7 proposal, which would expand access to a wider pool of renters and encourage participation in the program. The Seattle City Council is set to vote today.
Seattle Street Ends: South Lake Union
Today, John Feit’s Shoreline Street End series visits South Lake Union. In previous posts, he’s explored street end park spaces all over the city, often hidden gems.
Op-Ed: UW’s Union Bay Hypocrisy: Public Land, Private Fence
The Union Bay Natual Area is 74 acres of public open space with miles of trails, but the University of Washington has rebuffed advocates pushing to remove a fence and add a trail to improve access. Here’s why they should reconsider.