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The article is a bit Washington-centric, but The Communities Over Highways Campaign the article is about is not – I just couldn’t find a source with a broader perspective. You can find the campaign’s site here: americawalks.org/the-communities-over-highways-ca…

The survey of 1,000 Seattle voters, conducted by EMC Research in December, polled respondents on a hypothetical renewal measure for Move Seattle, a nine-year $930 million levy which funds about 30% of SDOT’s budget and expires at the end of the year. Pollsters asked about a $1.2 billion version, essentially the same amount as...

House Bill 2252, sponsored by Representative Mark Klicker (R-16, Walla Walla), would require every city and town in the state to permit the operation of a neighborhood cafe in a residential zone, regardless of whether the zone allows other business uses. Under a substitute version of the bill approved Friday, as long as business...

Blue Angels: patriotic celebration of America that’s fun for the whole family, or noise-polluting, climate-change-worsening, outdated abomination of the petro-military-industrial complex?

Ron Davis is running for the Seattle City Council in District 4 on a progressive, stridently urbanist platform and he shared his positions on transportation, housing, and other issues at The Urbanist’s lunch and learn event this Thursday....