Recent Press Releases

• Seattle’s Comp Plan draft needs 3 big housing fixes

  Sightline Institute’s Dan Bertolet describes the changes that would make the city’s once-a-decade vision statement meet the moment on housing, homelessness, equity, and climate priorities.

  April 22, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Dan Bertolet, Sightline Institute, dan@sightline.org    FULL ARTICLE: Seattle Deserves a Better Comp Plan  SEATTLE, WA – Seattle’s draft Comprehensive Plan, released earlier this month and laying out city leadership’s vision for the next 20 years [...] Read more »

  April 22, 2024

• Cultural fire and sovereignty: CA legislation acknowledges burning practices

  SB 310 would respect fire practitioners’ right to burn and shift a hierarchical relationship between the Karuk Tribe and the state to be sovereign-to-sovereign.

  April 15, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Kate Anderson, Sightline Institute, kate@sightline.org  FULL ARTICLE: What’s misunderstood about Indigenous cultural fire is sovereignty  SACRAMENTO, CA – A proposed policy in California, SB 310, would acknowledge Tribes’ cultural fire practices and respect fire practitioners’ [...] Read more »

  April 15, 2024

• Voter turnout: Idaho and Montana lag Wyoming due to odd-year elections

  But they could strengthen participation from working-age and moderate voters, save money, and dilute special-interest sway simply by letting cities move their local elections to when people are already voting.

  April 4, 2024 MEDIA CONTACT: Alan Durning, Sightline Institute, alan@sightline.org  FULL ARTICLE: The Election Calendar Is Cheating Idaho and Montana Voters  BOZEMAN, MT – Idaho and Montana severely lag neighboring Wyoming in voter turnout figures for local elections, with consequences [...] Read more »

  April 4, 2024