Carolyn Bick

Next year will mark Jay Worley’s 15th year since they last experienced homelessness. The Gig Harbor-based Worley is a longtime disability and homeless rights advocate. They also worked to help create Pierce County’s new Unified Regional Approach to Homele... See more

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