Kristen M. Clark
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Seattle, WA, United States
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To slow growth, some Washington cities halt development
At one point last fall, King County alone had five cities with a building moratorium in effect. → Read More
Seattle U prof: City can’t solve homelessness without courage
Students’ new research highlights ideas, best practices to address crisis. → Read More
Growth’s impact on Lake Union: More flights — and a seaplane runway
A long-awaited airstrip of sorts will arrive in late May, as a new Seattle-Vancouver, B.C. flight takes off. → Read More
Just ‘take the bus’ doesn’t work in some Seattle neighborhoods
Greenwood’s Taproot Theatre Company fears the impact new city parking law could have on business. → Read More
Seattle area has land to build on — but at what risk?
As the Puget Sound region booms, landslide hazards pose serious complications → Read More
Seattle's business community has a new face — and she's from Tacoma
The new leader of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce has few ties to Seattle itself. It’s the “metropolitan” part that Marilyn Strickland has nailed down. And that’s exactly the point. Strickland is well known — at least outside Seattle — … Continue reading → → Read More
As property taxes soar, will Seattleites stop being so generous?
Continuing to grapple with how unaffordable the region has become, property owners in the Seattle area are about to be hit with even more sticker shock in the coming days when annual property tax bills arrive in their mailboxes. A … Continue reading → → Read More
Bikeshare expands to the suburbs
It was as if they appeared overnight. Quite abruptly about two weeks ago, there they were: dozens of green-and-yellow bicycles sporadically parked in clusters along the sidewalks of Bothell’s main road, ready for passers-by to rent and ride for $1 an hour. … Continue reading → → Read More
Quips and a few punches at D.C. in governors' talk
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Oregon Gov. Kate Brown pulled no punches Friday night in how much disgust they feel about the Trump Administration’s desire to allow off-shore oil drilling along the U.S. coastline — that is, to allow it … Continue reading → → Read More
Why does King County want to ban smoking in parks?
Visit a public park in Bellevue, and you can light up a cigarette, chew tobacco or puff on an e-cigarette all you want. Do so in Kent, and you’re technically breaking local law. In Seattle’s city parks, it’s verboten to smoke, … Continue reading → → Read More
Shocker: It's mostly men moving to Seattle for tech jobs
For every four men who moved to Seattle for a tech job in the last decade, only one woman did, too, according to a recent analysis that looked at the trend of tech transplants nationwide. To industry experts and academics, the findings from the careers … Continue reading → → Read More
Jeff Sessions' cannabis move puts Seattle, state on the defensive
They knew this day would come. But the relative silence from Attorney General Jeff Sessions on legal marijuana over the last year had perhaps given state and local officials and proponents of the legal movement some hope that the drug-hawk … Continue reading → → Read More
I-75 was log-jammed during the Irma evacuation. Gov. Scott wants a review to speed it up next time.
A report of FDOT’s recommendations to Scott is due in January. → Read More
Gov. Scott orders review of I-75 evacuation route after Hurricane Irma
A report of FDOT’s recommendations to Scott is due in January. → Read More
Effort to build Florida Slavery Memorial returns to lawmakers’ agenda
The proposal — sponsored by a Miami Democrat — takes on new meaning against the backdrop of a growing racial divide across America and of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the summer over the removal of a Confederate statue there. → Read More
Lawmakers pitch voucher-like program to help bullied, abused students change schools
House Republicans announced the general concept for the “Hope Scholarship” on Wednesday. Many specifics of the proposal have not yet been fleshed out. → Read More
Florida House Republicans want voucher program for bullied, abused students
House Republicans announced the general concept for the “Hope Scholarship” on Wednesday. Many specifics of the proposal have not yet been fleshed out. → Read More
Slavery memorial wins support as Confederacy debate rages
TALLAHASSEE — State House members wasted no time this week in reviving a proposal for a Florida slavery memorial near the Capitol, an idea that stalled at the end of the 2017 session last spring. → Read More
Effort to build Florida Slavery Memorial returns to lawmakers’ agenda
The proposal — sponsored by a Miami Democrat — takes on new meaning against the backdrop of a growing racial divide across America and of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, during the summer over the removal of a Confederate statue there. → Read More
Slavery memorial wins support as Confederacy debate rages
TALLAHASSEE — State House members wasted no time this week in reviving a proposal for a Florida slavery memorial near the Capitol, an idea that stalled at the end of the 2017 session last sprin → Read More