50smodern

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Seattle's 'civic dementia,' and how to cure it

Posted Mon, May 25, 9:48 a.m.

"We also need to stand up to free market arguments by recognizing that the dynamics that drive development are not free. They are the products of specific tax and land-use policies. They are the outgrowth of federal and state decisions, incentives, and mandates." That is exactly right. And those decisions ...

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Save the planet: Get rid of your cat

Posted Mon, Apr 13, 11:52 a.m.

As far as impacts on birds, perhaps a solution would be for everyone who owns a yard to put in trees & bushes that would provide cover/habitat/homes/year-round food for the birds. If we supported them by doing this, perhaps our impact on their #'s (and the cat population's impacts) would ...

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Upside of the downturn

Posted Wed, Mar 11, 1:15 p.m.

"One of the marvels of the mid-century modern Northwest school of architecture was the designing efficient, simple, beautiful and inconspicuous new homes that were integrated into the trees," Thank you for the reference to Modernist architecture in Bellevue. I have long made the same observations about the old-style Northwest school ...

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