Toilet Deserts Remain Despite Sound Transit’s Renewed Restroom Policy
More passenger restrooms are ahead in Sound Transit's ever-growing system. However, a recommended policy update would discourage them from becoming a universal and easily...
Sunday Video: Vienna’s Radical Idea? Affordable Housing For All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41VJudBdYXY
Bloomberg Quicktake/CityLab explores how Vienna is tackling affordable housing for all in the city. Mike Eliason, syndicated columnist of The Urbanist, offers his perspective...
King County Sets 2044 Growth Targets with Seattle and Bellevue at the Top
The future of jobs and housing growth in King County has been set. In late June, an obscure regional body known as the Growth...
State Ferry Fare Hikes Ahead, Preferred Alternative Discourages Walk-On Ridership
Fare hikes are on the way for state ferry riders. Prices could rise 2.5% in October of this year and then be followed by...
Council Takes Initial Steps to Fix Childcare in Seattle
Of all the unexpected systems that the pandemic has laid bare, the crisis has shown childcare to be uniquely scattered and broken. By closing...
Midweek Video: Texas’s Power Disaster Is a Warning Sign for the US
https://youtu.be/Zcrsgdl_hP0
In this short video, Vox explains how Texas' March electric energy failure could be just the tip of the iceberg for America going forward....
Chauvin Convicted, but the Struggle for Justice and Black Lives Continues
Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin's conviction for murdering George Floyd led many to breath a sigh of relief. It was the first time a...
Sunday Video: Skid Row, Explained
https://youtu.be/rKo8Sv99MkM
Los Angeles’ Skid Row was not an inevitability, it was a policy. Johnny Harris explains how this district of tragic poverty came to be....