Durkan Is Not Better for Business
Last year, after Mayor Jenny Durkan was sworn in, I was pretty critical of her early decisions, especially appointing more than half a dozen non-profits and Vulcan to her transition team. I even called a post about Durkan, “So Far Not So Good.” This made somebody really mad. I got some heat for not sending […]
Fire, Ready, Aim: The City Already Owns Land to Build Over 2000 Units
I think most people at the City, Crosscut, and the Seattle Times have their e-mail set up so that anything from my address goes directly into the trash. But still, I have to try. This goes back several years to when we were fighting against linkage taxes. I didn’t do this work but I don’t […]
Seattle Sisyphus: Reflections on Where We Are Today
A very smart and trusted colleague and I were sitting in the Neighbor Lady a few weeks ago. He said, “I think you and I, for the foreseeable future, are doomed to keep rolling a rock up a hill just to have it come rolling back down.” His reference to Sisyphus hit home, since from […]
