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  • 2025-11-07

    Burien to move forward on SAMP ILA?

    Council votes on ‘four city’ ILA. Four days later it’s, three? Burien City Council: November 3, 2025 Item 13.h (SAMP ILA) On Monday, the Burien City Council voted unanimously to move towards final consideration in renewing the SAMP ILA with Des Moines, Normandy Park and SeaTac. This agreement concerns a legal appeal process on the
  • 2025-11-06

    FAA to cut flights at Sea-Tac Airport as government shutdown drags on

    Sea-Tac Airport’s air traffic control tower, pictured in 2021. Air traffic controllers have gone weeks without pay amid the government shutdown. Anthony Bolante | PSBJ By Nick Pasion and Lauren Ohnesorge – Puget Sound Business Journal Story Highlights FAA begins cutting flights at 40 airports amid government shutdown. Seattle-Tacoma Airport faces 10% reduction affecting 267
  • 2025-11-05

    Ep #14 A-Weighted

    The Airport Communities Podcast Last week told the crazy story of Tagamet to describe something economists call perverse incentives–how people can waste so much money addressing a problem in the wrong way, you can’t even get research money to figure out how to address it in the right way. In another episode, we described No
  • 2025-11-05

    FAA will reduce air traffic by 10% at many airports to maintain safety

    Joel Rose U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy (left) and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford announced Wednesday that the FAA will reduce air traffic at many busy airports to maintain safety during the government shutdown, which has led to staffing shortages of air traffic controllers. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration will reduce
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    2025-11-03

    Where Sea-Tac Airport ranks for longest tarmac taxi times

    Commercial passenger airplanes are seen parked at Sea-Tac Airport. Taxiing times at airports have been on the rise in recent years, and experts say there are few easy solutions. Anthony Bolante | PSBJ By Andy Medici – Senior Reporter, The Playbook, The Business Journals Nov 3, 2025 Story Highlights What’s This? Average departure taxi time increased to
  • 2025-11-02

    Fix The Harm Candidate Forum 2025 video/transcript

    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.

  • John Wayne Airport Settlement Agreement

    The landmark 1985 Settlement Agreement formalized consensus between the County of Orange, the City of Newport Beach, the Airport Working Group (AWG) and Stop Polluting Our Newport (SPON) on the nature and extent of facility and operational improvements that could be implemented at John Wayne Airport (JWA) through 2005. The Settlement Agreement established quarterly noise
  • 2025-10-30

    In honor of Arline Bronzaft

    “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

    Ep #13 Tagamet

    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

    Port of Seattle Commission October 28, 2025

    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
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