Aven If Seattle Kitty Hall wasn’t enough for you (or too much, depending on how you feel about cats), on September 6th you can get some furry socializing of the canine variety with the Safeco Field Bark at the Park event. Admission includes a human ticket, a dog ticket, Mariners dog leash, and post-game walk … Read more
Kristin E. I just read Raising the Floor: How a Universal Basic Income Can Renew Our Economy and Rebuild the American Dream by former SEIU president Andy Stern. I highly, highly recommend. After successfully organizing Labor, Stern started to feel concerned about the future of Labor, so he spent years asking economists, labor leaders, DEOs, and … Read more
Pam As a renter facing a $200/month increase on my one-bedroom apartment next month, and as someone with a number of friends and acquaintances who’ve moved out of the city in search of lower-priced housing, I’m more and more scared by our housing scene. Sightline’s work on the issue gives me hope, as do articles … Read more
Kristin I’ve been listening to podcasts recently so I can “read” on the go. I love NPR’s TED Radio Hour. This episode, “Becoming Wise,” includes a lovely story told by a guy whose family hosted Nelson Mandela when he was first released from prison. He tells about a herd of elephants that helped a young … Read more
Kristin G. Last month I joined a work party to help clean up the McCarver Community Garden in my new neighborhood. The payoff? A meaningful connection to my neighbors, two garden plots to fill with vegetables, and enough cherries plucked from their mature fruit tree to make one of my best pies yet! With a … Read more
Anna Have you ever tried to draw a picture of a bicycle from memory? If you’re like me—and I’m a bicycle commuter and not a terrible artist—this proves a near impossible task, with the basic geometry of a bike eluding me every time. I’m not alone, it seems. Proof are the real, live bikes an … Read more
Kristin Could the United States elect a President who is better at listening than talking? Vox’s Ezra Klein explains: You do not need to assert any grand patriarchal conspiracy to suggest that a process developed by men, dominated by men, and, until relatively late in American life, limited to men might subtly favor traits that … Read more
Tarika The audio program 99% Invisible—a podcast about “all the thought that goes into the things we don’t think about”—recently took on the topic of how American police departments became militarized forces. The Blazer Experiment episode tells the story of the former police chief of Melno Park, California, Victor Cizanckas. In the late 1960s, Cizanckas … Read more
Margaret Journalists have been giving a lot of press time to the role of foreign investment and absentee ownership in inflating Vancouver, British Columbia’s housing market these days. But knowing how to interpret that press is another matter. Take for instance this recent article in the Walrus which blamed wealthy investors from mainland China for … Read more
Eric I urge everyone who’s interested in oil-by-rail shipments to read Chris Carvalho’s recent op-ed in the Oregonian in which he does the math on derailment probabilities using the industry’s own numbers. The upshot? Under the current levels of oil transport, an event would happen about once every 30 months, in good agreement with the … Read more