Andrew Engelson

Rinck Proposes Restoring Growth Centers Dropped from One Seattle Plan » The Urbanist # The potential Seattle Comprehensive Plan changes, which are set to be discussed Monday, would add back growth centers around Gas Works Park, Alki, North Capitol Hill, and other areas. Councilmember ...

NEW: The full list of amendments to Seattle's Comp Plan are set to drop Monday, but we have a preview of @alexis4seattle.bsky.social's proposed changes:
-Restoring 8 entire neighborhood centers
-Removing parking mandates
-Allowing corner stores everywhere
www.theurbanist.org/2025/08/01/r...

Hey! I wrote about the upcoming primary election in #Tacoma!

Once again: to be politically conservative is to be scared, of everything, all the time.

A Fish Falls From the Sky and Sparks a Brush Fire in British Columbia

For a medieval monastic chronicler, a headline to die for

Pike Place with the famous sign.

Pike Place looking south

Side view of the street.

I don’t know if you remember but there was once a time when we allowed through traffic on Pike Place.

In 2020, a right-wing lawyer went to the home of a federal judge in NJ and shot the judge’s husband and killed her son, Daniel Anderl.

Since then, judges nationwide have been receiving pizzas they didn’t order, delivered to the judges’ homes.

And are told it was ordered by Daniel Anderl.

Vile.

Me three months ago:

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

A lesson in separatism: Catalonia As some of us in Cascadia investigate what might be required to achieve more autonomy or independence from the United States as the Trump administration continues to ignore the constitution and defy t...

As #Cascadia considers independence from the United States, I look at the stalled movement for #Catalan independence and what we in the Pacific Northwest can learn from it: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/a-lesson-in-...

Introducing America's new director of "counter-terrorism."

I'm beginning to believe this is why Senator Murkowski voted the way she did and why she looks completely terrified in most photos.

"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. …

"That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."

Yeah, I'm sure that'll do the trick, Keith.

Cascadia today: Trump cancels Oregon wind project + art show at UO under investigation Trump cancels Oregon wind energy area OPB reports that the federal government, in a campaign to stamp out clean energy and prop up the fossil fuel industry, rescinded more that 3.5 million acres of w...

Good morning, #Cascadia. In local news, a doddering old #POTUS who hates wind turbines ruining the view from his private golf course canceled a wind energy area in Oregon. This and other news from across the #bioregion: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Amongst other reforms, we need to repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 and quadruple the number of voting representatives in the House. The resulting finer grained apportionment would diminish the potential impact of partisan gerrymandering.

It's a bizarre and frankly alienating feeling realizing that if you know the basic fact that the murder rate has gone down significantly since 1990 you're in the ~90th+ percentile of fact-knowers

Yes, speed limits, automatic speeding camera enforcement, and street redesign, but also: "Public transport in Helsinki is excellent, which reduces car use, and with it, the number of serious accidents."

Repeal Referendum Campaign Targets State Parking Reform, Transit-Oriented Housing Law » The Urbanist # Safe Eastside, a group with a long track record of attacking facilities for people exiting homelessness, is turning its attention to major pieces of state housing reform approved in 2025. They have ...

Just confirmed with the Secretary of State's office that Safe Eastside's referendum campaigns targeting Washington's parking reform and transit-oriented development laws have failed, turning in 0 signatures ahead of Sunday's deadline. Both laws are now in effect.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/24/r...

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

Cascadia today: Tsunami arrives in Cascadia + Seattle mayor race is tight + safe supply threatened After massive Russia quake, tsunami arrives in Cascadia After a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Kamchatcka region of Russia, a tsunami alert was issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the west coa...

Good morning, #Cascadia! A tsunami reached our region after a Russian megaquake but caused no damage -- though it's highlighting concerns about a potential subduction zone quake here in our #bioregion. cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Cascadia today: Seattle city council member returns + again with the dumb Blue Angels + badgers endangered in BC Hey friends! Thanks for helping me meet my goal of 50 paid subscribers! Your subscriptions help me keep publishing this daily newsletter about news arts & culture from across the Cascadia bioregion. T...

Perennial contrarian Seattle op-ed in August: Blue Angels warplanes screaming over the city for Seafair are actually cool. 🙄 This and other news from the #Cascadia bioregion: cascadia-journal.ghost.io/cascadia-tod...

Poll: Gov. Ferguson’s first approval rating lowest in over 20 years A Cascade PBS/Elway poll found that disappointment crossed party lines, with those surveyed citing the budget, new taxes and his political ideology.

WA voters are not happy with Gov. Bob Ferguson after his first six months in office. The Democratic governor has the lowest first-six-months job rating of any governor since 1993, according to a new Cascade PBS/Elway poll. Story by @laureldemkovich.bsky.social: www.cascadepbs.org/news/2025/07...

When #Cascadia is independent, we'll no longer see our tax dollars used to build concentration camps.

They took a father from his child In the art of writing fiction there's a concept known as the "inciting incident," a moment early in a story when the main character is confronted with a shock or sudden change that then drives the res...

This is not OK.
cascadia-journal.ghost.io/they-took-a-...

This is some insane Soviet bullshit. The idea that any American news organization would agree to something like this is unconscionable. I don't know how any self-respecting journalist could work for an outlet that's doing this.

He's coming for PreP because he doesn't mind if queer people die.

In the video, a bystander shouts, "This is not OK."

Names of Seattle police officers at Jan. 6 rally released The names were released roughly one week after the officers dropped their lawsuit to prevent the release of their names.

Why are these officers still employed by SPD? If they want to use violence to dismantle the Constitution there are plenty of jobs for authoritarian thugs at ICE.

Only 31 percent of those detained by ICE in Washington in June had any criminal record.

Has #Seattle mayor Bruce Harrell said anything about Trump's executive order encouraging sweeps and criminalizing homelessness? Sara Nelson? Ann Davison?