Carolyn Bick

The “Connect Tacoma” levy scales back the public ask, but still aims to fulfill goals of safer, more pedestrian-friendly streets. The Tacoma City Council wants to take another crack at convincing voters to make Tacoma’s notoriously dangerous streets safer... See more

On March 3, the King County Council passed Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda’s emergency one-year moratorium blocking permits to expand or create new detention facilities within unincorporated King County, whether for permanent or temporary use, to prevent th... See more

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