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A boon for Downtown's urban parents

Fri, Jun 15, midnight

By Amanda Bryan

With development and population booming in downtown Seattle, it's about time Seattle's urban core got its own school.

How Seattle decides to let its young die in street violence

Fri, Jun 8, midnight

By Neale Frothingham

Except when confronted with a tragedy like the Cafe Racer and Town Hall murders, most of the city tends to ignore the crime and the unmet need for more police officers that South Seattle endures constantly.

Fried chicken: Go beyond the fancy to uncover the best comfort food

Thu, Jun 7, midnight

By Hugo Kugiya

Eating on the Edge: You can make fried chicken quite fancy, especially if you're an outstanding chef. But for the best taste, you may want something like a little joint in South Seattle.

Morning Fizz: We do not have an endless amount of money

Tue, Jun 5, 9:02 a.m.

By Erica C. Barnett and Josh Feit

Caffeinated news and gossip featuring: last night's Sound Transit meeting at Northgate and Wisconsin.

Mercer UpGarden turns parking spots into garden beds

Fri, Jun 1, 2:15 p.m.

By Martha Baskin

Green Acre Radio: The UpGarden on Mercer Street, built on the top of an area parking garage, will be one of the country's first public rooftop gardens.

Saving the soul of SoDo?

Fri, Jun 1, midnight

By Knute Berger

The Port of Seattle is worried the new arena will kill off working class Seattle, but the Port's leaders have also been a huge force for the gentrification they're decrying.

Seattle neighborhoods fight needed land use reform, density

Mon, May 21, 12:01 a.m.

By Roger Valdez

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.

Rainier Valley programs build food justice one garden at a time

Sun, May 20, 10:50 a.m.

By Martha Baskin

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.

Seattle's narrowing inequality and surprisingly poor Asian and African Americans

Wed, May 16, midnight

By Eric Scigliano

A new report on the city's economy turns up some good news, and some shocks and mysteries.

El Asadero: The grandfather of Seattle food trucks

Tue, May 15, midnight

By Hugo Kugiya

Long before food trucks were cool, there was El Asadero, the Othello-based taco-slinging school bus.

Why Seattle needs a new urban environmentalism

Fri, May 11, midnight

By Don Fels and Patricia Tusa Fels

Sure, Seattleites score high when it comes to environmental awareness, but it's about time we took a good look at how we treat our city.

A wall comes down in Madison Park

Wed, May 9, 12:05 a.m.

By Knute Berger

After a long saga, has Madison Park's discomfort with interlopers lessened?

Midday Scan: Boeing's make-up gift to Everett

Tue, Apr 24, 11 a.m.

By Pete Jackson

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.

The Mossback Manifesto on urban density

Tue, Apr 24, 2 a.m.

By Knute Berger

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.

A desire named streetcar

Mon, Apr 23, 2 a.m.

By Eric Scigliano

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.