Culture
Better health for all gets a digital assist
A new effort, Mapping Our Voices for Equality, has grown out of federal efforts to involve more communities in promoting healthy foods and preventing the dangers associated with smoking.
Matt Rosenberg
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Politics
Puget Sound foot ferries migrate to San Francisco
The Bay Area makes use of our former foot ferries, and then some, all paid for by tolls.
Politics
Initiative campaigns: where's the truth?
An encounter with one signature gatherer revolves around a clearly untrue assertion. That's only part of the problem for voters in trying to know what a ballot measure means.
Politics
Washington, home of software leaders, gets a bad rap for online transparency. What gives?
A national report card focused only on a site dealing with financial records, ignoring other ways in which state government is quite open. But was there ever a time when we needed financial information more urgently?
Politics
Cordon blues: New York is no indicator of tolling's future
The sort of tolling under consideration here and elsewhere in the U.S. is completely different from that proposed for Manhattan. That was "cordon" pricing, and it fell flat in the Big Apple. True congestion pricing makes a lot of sense in metro Puget Sound, contends the author. He explains the diffe