Strongtowns has been on a roll lately: Nice piece on Trader Joe's parking lots, and the illusions/delusions caused by widespread "free" parking. Few people would actually say "Shoppers who don't drive to this store are already subsidizing those who do, but not nearly enough" and...
Author: djw
Watching the horrifying rise of Donald Trump is, among other things, discombobulating; anyone attacking something as morally bankrupt as the establishment Republican party in 2016 is, no matter how awful,.
The background to this story, in a nutshell, is that Seattle has, for a variety of reasons (including an affordable housing crisis driven by an acute and largely self-inflicted housing.
In the discussion thread for Scott's post on elitist approaches to Supreme Court qualifications, Denverite explains his position a bit more. Why favor elitism? His answer has a kind of soft Straussian/Platonic noble lie flavor. It's important that the public hold the court in high...
Those who find it useful and/or desirable to believe that Bernie Sanders holds an electability advantage in the general relative to Hillary Clinton have a wide array of strategies available.
I hinted at my general skepticism about the modern streetcar movement in the BQX post, and there were some (admittedly half-hearted) pushback, so let me spell out the case a.
An unfortunate trend in urban politics is that a lot of politicians who are generally and transit and zoning/land-use policy are also inclined to succumb to the allure of that wasteful fad of 21st century urban development, the urban streetcar. Unfortunately for New York, De...
The first and last year of a President's term don't count.
Daniel Hirschman's review of Harry Frankfurt's exercise in lazy profit-taking book confirms my fears about it: HE FIRST THING you should know about On Inequality is that its title is.
I'm horning in on bspencer's territory here, but after a couple of 'meh' slow cooker experiments, this one turned out too good not to share. It's loosely based on some adobo recipes I've used in the past, but I think I like it better than...
The story of the chocolate milk 'study' at the University of Maryland shouldn't really be a surprise to anyone paying attention, unfortunately. There are two things I find particularly striking.
Last month, I noted the second anniversary of the day "Bertha," the deep bore tunneling machine that was supposed to carve out a tunnel beneath downtown Seattle that is to.