The Seattle City Council unanimously passed the Seattle Transit Measure (STM), an ambitious package to fund more than 100,000 hours of additional transit service in the city over the next 10 years. This November, voters will decide whether they...
City Light price hike is going to happen. The city council unanimously approved a rate increase of 9.5 percent in 2027, and another 9.5 percent in 2028. According to Seattle City Light, the extra cash is needed to “meet...
Universal free school meals now, or universal free school meals later? That is the question.
Tomorrow, the Seattle City Council will either pass a bill to enact Katie Wilson’s universal meal program for Seattle Public Schools students intact or pass...
Every August, before I thought about lesson plans, I went shopping for snacks.
When I taught elementary school in a Washington, DC neighborhood shaped by generations of segregation and concentrated poverty, I kept food in my classroom because I knew...
Seattle might not see many truly scorching days each year, but when they happen, they tend to happen all at once. One day the weather is in the 60s and raining; the next it feels like the Sound itself...
Summer Savory not your vibe? Check out N/A Summer Sweet instead.
In June, when the temperatures creep above 70, I leave the Manhattans behind, and start sniffing out margaritas, mai tais, anything with orgeat that helps me pretend I’m on...
Summer Sweet not your vibe? Check out Boozy Summer Savory instead.
I’ve never drunk alcohol. I heard a Minor Threat song when I was 14 and swore off booze right then and there. But few things are more pathetic than...
I’m a straight woman in her early thirties dating a straight man in his late twenties. We’ve been together for two years. We kept things casual for the first sixteen months or so. When we had our “define the relationship”...
It’s a Hot One: Too hot even, dangerously for some. The city hasn’t updated its summer heat safety website since August of last year, but it still has handy links to cooling centers and the like; just ignore all...
Last month, I was featured in an NPR article exploring America’s growing phenomenon of “ideological sorting.” “In a country that’s growing ever-more polarized, the shifting demographics cut in both directions—and it is happening across the country,” they wrote. “In...
