Reflections on Opening Day: Light Rail is People
In both transportation and land use it is easy to lose sight of one basic fact: what matters most it isn’t the bricks, the tracks, the design, the routes, the heights but people. At this last weekends opening of the latest link in Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail, there was lots of talk about the […]
John Fox and Ronald Reagan: The Art of Telling a Good Story
A big part of politics is story telling. Actually, I’d argue a good story wins over facts and data every single time. In some ways I think this is a bad thing. On the other hand, it’s just a fact that our world is just a bunch of stuff until we assign some meaning to […]
A Builder Perspective: Why Housing Is So Expensive.
Last week I went to a meeting with Seattle City Light with about a dozen small builders who work mainly in the south end of the City or just outside it but are still served by Seattle City Light. They were mad. For many of them, the meeting was the last desperate attempt to get […]
