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- Rezoning: Losing Ballard
- Climate crisis: Heat inequality
- We accomplish so much more for our students when we work together
- Relief and challenges as Seattle schools plan a return to the classroom this fall
- Are Seattle’s perfect summers in the rearview mirror?
- Altering our vision of voting
- Supreme Court undermines voting rights and itself
| Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:37 AM PDT  Yards, gardens and old shade trees are disappearing in Ballard and being replaced by multifamily, three- to four-story-high buildings where once affordable single-family homes stood. Now we have density, noise and little to no parking. Flowers, trees and gardens have no place in this new design. This development is fueled by greed with no concern […]  |
| Climate crisis: Heat inequality Posted: 02 Jul 2021 11:36 AM PDT The heat inequality facing King County is simply reflective of the world at large. The climate crisis disproportionately affects those who have contributed the least to causing it. As a Peace Corps volunteer, I lived for two years on a small island in the Republic of Vanuatu. There, the majority practice a subsistence lifestyle. Their […]  |
| We accomplish so much more for our students when we work together Posted: 02 Jul 2021 10:58 AM PDT  The impacts of the last year won't disappear quickly, even with the miracle of a vaccine and the re-opening of our schoolhouse doors.  |
| Relief and challenges as Seattle schools plan a return to the classroom this fall Posted: 02 Jul 2021 10:52 AM PDT  Despite the difficulties and pain of this last school year, as interim superintendent of Seattle Public Schools, I am full of optimism for a return to the classrooms this fall.  |
| Are Seattle’s perfect summers in the rearview mirror? Posted: 02 Jul 2021 10:11 AM PDT  That summer sun is still pretty dependable, but, in recent years, that bright orb in the sky has cranked up the heat.  |
| Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT  Not everyone who should be able to cast a ballot will be able to. And, not every ballot cast will be properly counted. That is the sad reality of the American electoral system, and conservatives in this country have done their best to maintain or exacerbate it at all costs.  |
| Supreme Court undermines voting rights and itself Posted: 02 Jul 2021 08:01 AM PDT  The court's conservatives clearly believe that racial disparities in voting results aren't a problem. That's a convenient view for Republicans to hold in this day and age. The majority's opinion harms the court's legitimacy — at a time when that legitimacy is sorely needed.  |
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