SDOT pushes equity as thousands more dockless bikes roll in

City of Seattle officials hope new bike share regulations widen access in low-income areas and ease parking woes.

by

Josh Cohen

/ July 20

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As interim chief, Best fired two officers and two recruits

Backers say her record shows new Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best can be a disciplinarian, even as an insider.

by

David Kroman

/ July 20 July 20, 2018

Meet the man with a nuclear reactor in his basement

Carl Greninge built a nuclear reactor with parts from eBay and duct tape — and he lets students use it.

by

Sarah Hoffman

/ July 20 July 20, 2018

10 things to do in Seattle

An abstract microcosm of Seattle growth, Farm Fest and burlesque production Femme Fatale.

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/ July 20 July 20, 2018

The number of homeless veterans is down. What’s working?

Service providers are seeing positive results with a program that could soon be used with other populations.

by

David Kroman

/ July 19 July 19, 2018

Opinion

Seattle has a duty to protect domestic workers

July 20

Jen Soriano is a Seattle-based writer and nonprofit consultant. She is a member of Hand in Hand: The National Domestic Employers’ Network.

Seattle could set an example by passing the first city government domestic workers’ rights bill in the country.

Opinion

Seattle could make a dent in housing crisis with its own property

July 17

Cary Moon is an urban planner and organizer who ran for mayor of Seattle in 2017 on a progressive urbanist platform.

&
Michael Eliason is a passivhaus designer and renter who lives in Fremont.

Rather than selling off a big South Lake Union property, the city should make sure it's used for affordable housing.

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Features

Environment

The price of putting out Western wildfires

Battling the blazes keeps getting more expensive, but it doesn't have to be this way.

by

Tony Schick

EarthFix/OPB

/ July 18

Women walk by a mural in Tacoma's Hilltop neighborhood.

Growth

As priced-out Seattleites flee, Tacoma's getting more expensive

Market-weary house hunters are finding reprieve in the City of Destiny and they are bringing the high prices with them.

by

Josh Cohen

/ July 13

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Equity

A day in the life of a homeless father of four

by

Aileen Imperial

/ July 19

Equity

In a homeless encampment, pets provide more than comfort

by

Gemina Garland-Lewis

/ July 19

Equity

Separated at the border, mother and son reunite at Sea-Tac

by

Lilly Fowler &
Eric Keto

/ July 14

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Opinion

After a year of turmoil, can Evergreen reinvent itself?

July 16

Columnist Knute Berger is Crosscut’s Mossback. Born and raised in Seattle, he writes with his own Pacific Northwest perspective.

Evergreen President George Bridges is up against low student enrollment and budget cuts.

File photograph of a pickup truck drives along a dirt road in rural Waterville, July 2017. Farmers and ranchers are some of the small business owners with an all-family staff who have found themselves priced out of traditional insurance. (Matt M. McKnight/Crosscut)

Affordable health care takes a leap of faith

July 13

Sue Lani Madsen, an architect and rancher, lives in Edwall, where she also writes a column for the Spokane Spokesman-Review.

Does faith-based health care have a future in a historically unreligious Washington state?

Blue wave? This is the worst time to be a Democrat

July 12

John Carlson hosts a morning drive show on AM 570 KVI. He is a co-founder of the Washington Policy Center in Seattle.

Things were looking so good for Democrats, but recent developments suggest the blue wave is shrinking.

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