Katherine Mitchell

Toronto shopping street

Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car.

In fact, it was 4%.

And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%.

Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...

This is an extremely high-quality paper which again proves that building more housing—yes, even expensive market-rate housing!—improves housing choice for *all* working families.

Also we literally did this in 2020 and the result was an ineffectual and unpopular administration that ended in the biggest Republican victory since 1984.

This was the entirety of the argument for Kier Starmer, who is doing a picture-perfect job killing trans children and greasing the wheels of the state to make Nigel Farage's job easier. It's not a very good argument.

Another ‘millionaires tax’ finds Seattle is far richer than anyone knew Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson last week described the city as “filthy rich.” Impolitic as that may be, returns from a new tax on high pay packages show she’s not wrong.

'Seattle’s plutocrats are wealthier than anyone imagines. This keeps getting revealed, where a scheme is developed to tax wealth, & then amounts the tax brings in wildly overshoot even the most optimistic forecasts.'

westneat on the social housing wealth tax

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working on it

As we work to make housing more affordable, renters across the city need to keep speaking out. That’s why today we’re launching our Mayoral Renter’s Survey. forms.office.com/g/B1K37QsKtf

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Google street view image of a downtown street with bollards and flush curbs.

The City of Spokane is in the process of enabling shared streets under SB 5595. They drafted an ordinance and selected their first shared street: N. Wall Street between Main Avenue and Spokane Falls Boulevard.

This should be getting a lot more attention but this road widening will plow over 91 homes in the apartment building just to the east of this interchange. We are bulldozing housing in a HOUSING CRISIS to save cars a few seconds @kromandavid.bsky.social @seattletimes.com

CM Lin is on an absolute heater of Being Correct About Things since taking office and it is so invigorating to see a local elected talking this way

once again begging democrats to not continue limiting renters to harmful places

corridor zoning is a public health disaster.

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close up of Rapid Ride logo on a G Line bus in Seattle

🚌 Today is the first time Seattle transit riders can pay the fare with a credit card or smartphone
The new feature launches on Rapid Ride G, and will be rolled out across the bus system in the coming weeks
📲 I wish I was in Seattle this week to try it out!
🙋‍♂️ Give it a try & tell me about it here

Sealed bag of Tim’s Cascade chips nailed to a telephone pole. Some sort of Seattle omen.

Are @kingcountymetro.bsky.social buses just going to spend 50% of their display time saying FARES REQUIRED forever now?

Instead, @governorferguson.bsky.social is pushing a 3% cut to WA’s public colleges and universities. The exact opposite of what we need.

And when the Pierce County Sheriff violates this law, as he has stated his intention to, will the State Patrol enforce it?

I am extremely disappointed in Birds Connect Seattle. Preventing ecosystem-destroying sprawl by letting people move to our cities instead of exurbs is the best thing we can do for our vulnerable bird populations.

“Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me.”

She put this out on FB an hour ago

a perfectly normal-seeming grove in the italian countryside on a clear sunny day, a farmhouse amid trees surrounded by vineyards. there is no evidence of anything untoward in the picture.

in light of today's events, i want to share a story i was told during a study abroad summer in italy, where i took a class on the rise of fascism.

the picture below is the site of a mass grave. captive partisans were brought here by nazis, forced to dig, and then executed on the spot.

Alex Pretti was a fellow union worker

read james joyce

YouTube video by let's talk about stuff w/ sarah zedig things that didn't suck in 2025

NEW VIDEO: things that didn't suck in 2025!

an hour & ten minutes of rapid-fire hot takes and recommendations, a light and breezy palette cleanser from a year that just plain sucked.

I tried to play the demo and it literally softlocked in a menu on character creation.

first owner and starting qb to kiss on the lips

Was thinking about that when I saw this take. Wilson is very much not talking every day, and I kind of wish she would. bsky.app/profile/lowr...

When you don't aggressively set the tone you let KIRO and the Times define your administration!

wilson made a bunch of department hires and has made ZERO social media posts or news releases about them. why did she replace them? why did she pick who she did? who knows!

i know getting compared to zohran is annoying but he posts EVERY SINGLE MAJOR HIRE!

Abolish ICE.

centrist voice: transgender for everyone who wants it