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Highway Megaproject Goes Over-Budget, Episode #387 27 Aug 2013 | 03:45 am
SR-520. Stew Markel, cc. In news that will surprise precisely nobody, another transportation megaproject is going over budget. From Mike Lindblom at The Seattle Times: Construction delays and upcomi...
Are Americans Talking about Global Warming? 26 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
Photo Credit: thepeachmartini via Compfight cc All I can say is, my Facebook friends are not behaving like average Americans. My closest circles of “real world” friends and family really aren’t eithe...
Weekend Reading 8/23/13 23 Aug 2013 | 10:04 pm
Nicole Ever gotten hassled for riding outside of the bike lane? If so, this 2011 video by a New York cyclist is for you. I also came across some helmet-cam videos pointing out tricky intersections an...
Apartment Blockers 22 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
Have you ever watched the excavation that precedes a tall building? It seems to take forever. Then, when the digging is finally done, construction rockets upward in no time. For the past few months, I...
Matt Taibbi and Mayor Julián Castro 21 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi What do Matt Taibbi and San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro have in common? Sightline’s 20th Anniversary Speaker Series! They’ll be closing out our year-long celebration with ...
What Coal Trains Would Cost Seattle 20 Aug 2013 | 08:47 pm
It must be election season because this morning the Seattle Times managed to contort the publication of a small-scale economic analysis into a Shocking Scandal in the Mayor’s Race! The issue, as near ...
A Gateway for Petcoke 19 Aug 2013 | 10:08 pm
Coker towers, Suncor Energy, cc. You often hear it said that coal is the world’s dirtiest fuel, which isn’t quite right. There’s actually an even dirtier fuel out there, petroleum coke. Often called ...
Weekend Reading 8/16/13 16 Aug 2013 | 10:43 pm
Anna It turns out that most of us have the history of reproductive health in America all wrong (thanks in large part to anti-abortion crusaders’ persistent, strategic revisionism). Here’s a great pie...
Taxi vs. Lyft: My Commute (Part 2) 15 Aug 2013 | 12:59 am
Tim Dorr, flickr Last week I wrote about my experience commuting to work with Yellow Cab vs. Lyft, one of the new on-demand, smartphone-based “ridesharing” services that have recently started operati...
Park Raving Mad 14 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
An Oregon mall parking lot. Off-street parking quotas are on the books in every city in Cascadia, because they are politically expedient. But the specific quotas—two spaces per apartment or ten per 1...
