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Driverless Metro: A Faster, More Reliable Alternative for Ballard and West Seattle

Sound Transit is planning a pair of new transit lines through Seattle to build on the rapidly expanding Link light rail system. The West...

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...
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Support Sunsetting Houghton and East Bellevue Community Councils

Please support House Bill 1769 (“Community Municipal Corps”) to sunset the undemocratic, obstructionist community councils in Kirkland (Houghton Community Council) and Bellevue (East Bellevue...
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Call to Action: Speak Up For Housing Benefit Districts

On a day-to-day basis, we are confronted with a million different challenges: maybe you dropped your coffee on the carpet, maybe you just cannot...
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What Seattle Public Schools Needs to Say Right Now

The letter District Leaders should send to follow earlier garbage. Dear Seattle Schools families, As Covid numbers have spiked among kids and staff in Seattle...
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Cleaning Up Our (Growth Management) Act

When it comes to planning in the State of Washington, the Growth Management Act (GMA) is where we start. It determines where we can...
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Call to Action: Save the Roosevelt RapidRide

The Seattle Department of Transportation and King County Metro recently reneged on the voter-approved promise of a Roosevelt RapidRide (J Line) by shortening the...
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Light Rail Expansion, Affordable Housing, and E-Bikes: What We Were Grateful For in 2021

It's always been fashionable to complain. Complaining is often easy and it can be cathartic too. But since the beginning of the Covid pandemic,...