Carolyn Bick

King County Councilmember Claudia Balducci originally became a bicyclist commuter for health and well-being. Within a year of moving to Bellevue from New York City, she’d already gotten a car, having given up on the public transit system. But she swiftly ... See more

Rubén Casas believes that the lack of connected, walkable neighborhoods may be helping to spur the “epidemic of loneliness.” Speaking at a January 30 forum hosted by transit advocacy organization Tacoma On the Go, Casas, who is an associate professor at t... See more

Washington’s second-largest county cut health department jobs and continues to lag in transit service. For Pierce County, Pierce Transit, and the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, it’s a new year, a new budget — but the same problems. All of these e... See more

Classic Seattle weather—cold, wet, and grey—graced Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes’s first day on the job this January. But inside the hallowed chambers of Seattle’s government, City leaders were positively glowing. Finally, they said, following a closed... See more

The Pierce County Council recently greenlit a set of awards for affordable housing projects using a relatively new funding source: the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act . The projects largely aim to serve households with very-low and extremely-low inc... See more