In this week"s episode, reporter Ray Dubicki is joined by The Urbanist"s executive director Doug Trumm to discuss allocations and adjustments as Seattle"s budget season moves into high gear. The City has about $1.7 billion to spend, and there"s no end of things folks are asking for. That list includes a lot of requests

Founder of Larch Lab, a design studio and think tank devoted to climate adaptive architecture and urbanism, Mike Eliason holds a wealth of knowledge about how to create buildings that make for denser, more sustainable, more livable cities. In this episode, he uses the same simple language he uses to demystify architect

A 60-day legislative session might seem like a ridiculously short time to get governing done for the eighth largest economy in the country. Sweden has a full-time legislature, and our GDP is higher than theirs. But who is counting. Washingtonians insist on making life hard for ourselves. In this episode, Managing Edito

In this episode, reporter Ray Dubicki and I were joined by Doug Trumm, Executive Director of The Urbanist, to discuss the concrete mixer driver strike that"s upended the construction sector throughout the fast growing Puget Sound region. The strike kicked off back in December when workers employed by the region"s six l