The other night I got cc’ed on an email to the Mayor of Seattle and the Seattle City Council by my friend, science writer Alex Berezow. Berezow is a writes for a variety of publications both print and online and is Senior Fellow of Biomedical Science at the American Council on Science and Health. He’s also written […]
The Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce may be near the ending of its useful life as an advocacy organization for business in Seattle. Taken together, minimum wage increases, paid leave, and meddling with employee schedules have all added to making Seattle an increasingly difficult place to run a small or medium sized business. This doesn’t […]
Last week Crosscut gave me some real estate to talk about housing and why we’re not supportive of Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ), especially the City of Seattle’s version of it, Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA). Simply put, what MHA is squeezes money out of the development of market rate housing and funnels it into a very […]