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The view from The Phinney
Managing an apartment building in the early days of the housing crisis, I got a glimpse of the old Seattle.
Katie Wilson
Katie Wilson is the General Secretary of the Transit Riders Union, a Seattle-based organization advocating for improved public transit and other progressive urban issues. She is a contributin
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In Seattle, a tax on big business is now more possible than ever
The passage of Tim Eyman's car-tab initiative underscores the need to right our upside-down tax system. Here's how to enlist Amazon in the cause.
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Seattle progressives need to get smart on crime
The city has scaled back prosecutions of low-level crimes — for good reason. But without scaling up diversion programs, a backlash is inevitable.
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Whose responsibility is the homelessness crisis?
It is a damning fact of our times that this question seems to have lost any satisfactory answer.
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Adrift and afraid, Seattle's outraged NIMBY needs someone to blame
Local PACs People for Seattle and Moms for Seattle are fueling a toxic politics and exploiting anxiety about a precarious economy and a confusing world.