2025-11-02
The October 22nd candidate forum was organized by STACC4J/Fix The Harm and featured Port Commission candidates (Toshiko Hasegawa, Ryan Calkins, Hamdi Mohamed), 33rd LD Senator Tina Orwall, and House candidates (Rep. Edwin Obras and Kevin Schilling). About 50 people attended. Here is the complete video and a machine-generated transcript.
All three Port Commissioners are running unopposed, as is Senator Orwall. The House race is hotly contested and there are clear choices.
2025-10-30
“Noise is not just annoying. It’s a matter of public health” It is with the greatest sadness that we report the passing of Dr. Arline Bronzaft, long time environmental psychologist at City University of New York, and the person who can rightly be called the founding mother of research into the public health effects of
2025-10-29
The Airport Communities Podcast We open this week’s episode by talking about how little information sharing there ever really is among any airport community. Even candidate forums on airport issues here are now semi-private! More broadly, we at Sea-Tac are not alone with airport expansions. But on the plus side, more and more, we’re noticing
2025-10-28
Support for SAMP. Concrete greenwash. Tax Levy politics 2025 10/28 Packet The Port of Seattle Commission’s latest meeting delivered one of the most content-rich and contentious discussions in recent memory, covering runway resurfacing costs, the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP), aviation budget details, and debates over the increasingly popular tax levy fund. Item 10b: Runway
2025-10-28
Second SAMP briefing and update on SEPA process. Aviation Budget, Tax Levy initial briefings for 2026-2030
2025-10-23
The Airport Communities Podcast Last week we talked about how the SAMP EA can say that the air quality is within standards. There was this (brief) ‘golden age’ of NEPA where you could get pollutants reviewed and problems fixed. It made dramatic improvements to the environment and public health. This week, we start providing some
2025-10-22
Who do you turn to when you need help on a highly sensitive issue?
2025-10-19
Important answers from some candidates. But not nearly enough The Defenders of Highline Forest submitted questions to candidates for Port Commission, King County Council and local city council races regarding airport impacts and tree canopy preservation in South King County. We want to thank them for performing this important public service and encourage you to
2025-10-17
Council can make a statement on bad sound insulation systems At last week’s Burien City Council meeting the group unanimously approved a strongly worded letter of complaint about the Port of Seattle’s controversial and long-delayed Sound Insulation Repair/Replacement Pilot Program (SIRRPP). At their October 23, 2025 meeting, the Des Moines City Council will discuss that
2025-10-16
The Airport Communities Podcast Last week we answered a series of questions from the previous week. (We get many of the same questions every week.) We had intended to talk about the Port of Seattle’s recent SAMP Webinar, but host JC came across the book Particles of Truth at a recent UWDEOHS seminar on community
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