Once the neighborhoods organized as a force for change, pushing City Hall for improvements. Now, they are the ultimate roadblock to remaking the city in healthier ways.
Green Acre Radio: The Just Garden Project is part of a network of efforts to improve food choices for people often forced to accept less-healthy ways of feeding themselves and their families.
Boeing eyes ways to expand production in Everett. Meanwhile, Alaska and its oil companies are looking more and more like some bizarre Downton Abbey metaphor and Washington's public schools are faced with shrinking budgets.
How to think about preserving culture while the city swells. Some principles: Pay attention to NIMBYs, who are sometimes right. Not all density is good (or bad). And we can't have too much sense of place and history.
Is public transit all about getting there quickly and conveniently, or about having fun and looking cool? The new First Hill Streetcar line will give us one, but we could have had both.
If taxpayer money is used to build a parking structure to support transit, the state transportation head thinks anyone should be able to use it? But do we even want to build more parking around rail facilities?
If Seattle is a city of neighborhoods, Crosscut is a valuable tool of discovery, says one of Crosscut's ever-curious writers. Agree? Might be a good time to become an annual Member, and we have a new matching grant to double donations above $100.
Who uses Seattle's neighborhood main streets, how do they get there, what do they find, and what do they miss there? The city gets some hard answers, from Admiral, Othello, Columbia City, Ballard, and Fremont.
Historically, Seattle has deferred to the residents most directly affected by decisions such as development around rail stations. This is starting to change, enlarging the table for democratic debate.
Pursued by police, a stolen car hit two pedestrians and several cars, including two police vehicles, at the PhinneyWood ArtWalk on Friday. The pedestrians did not appear to have life-threatening injuries.