Category : Change The Culture(66)

Unless you’re from Michigan you may not be aware of John Dingell, a congressman from the west side of Detroit and something of a legend on many levels. Some knew him as a friend of labor. Some as an insider with the auto industry. Some as one member of a political dynasty which persists to

The Port of Seattle is a major driver of economic impacts in the area. However it is undoubtedly the main driver of environmental impacts in the Highline Communities. This gives them both the resources and the responsibility to do more to help the communities that endure those negative impacts. What they lack is community knowledge and

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A proposal to fund a West Coast Bullet Train should be viewed only with cautious optimism by airport communities. When this Washington Democratic Delegation proposal for funding a West Coast Bullet Train showed up, I immediately thought of how unreliable it has been to take AmTrak to Vancouver, BC over the past three decades. But

Every year in Seattle, there is the SeaFair Festival and that means the return of the Navy’s Blue Angels precision flying team which deploys their show from King County International Airport. Exciting stuff in more ways than one. For five days that means a dramatic change in flight paths at Sea-Tac Airport, as commercial traffic

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Some research we would like to see from Seattle/King County Department of Health, including indoor air quality and the efficacy of Port Packages both old and new. The article discusses how politics tends to shift the focus of research and concludes with the need for Magic Wand Experiments--an open discussion of what work is truly needed--in order to move the process forward.

The are two very different documents we will refer to back and forth in this article. To (try to) avoid confusion, we will refer to the Community Health and Airport Operations Related Pollution Report as ‘the KCDOH Study’ (because that is how the Port of Seattle referred to it.) We will refer to the summary

The passage of 1791-S.PL acknowledges that the battle for a second airport process (known as the CACC) is lost. But, let’s pretend it’s not. However, if previous efforts (such as the Flight Plan Study of 1989) are any indication, HB-1791 will not only result in years of delay, it will actually work to accelerate the pace