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Opening Parks to More Seattleites
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Weekend Reading 6/16/17
Kristin Another lens on the Big Sort: rural communities put a lot of resources into helping promising kids get out and fulfill their potential. Those kids get out, gain skills, experience the world. The other kids get left behind in their hometown with dwindling work opportunities and shrinking populations. As this graph from the article shows, those who leave home have more opportunities to make money than those who stay....Read more » -
Weekend Reading 6/9/17
Serena Women-only co-working spaces? Or women, trans, femme, and gender-nonconforming co-working spaces? Sound like a good idea. And it’s one that’s growing in popularity as these spaces’ founders and members discover the intentional community-building opportunities that such venues offer—opportunities that have grown scarcer among young people who are less inclined to attend church or some other weekly gathering. Some spaces emphasize amenities, others programming and events, but all seem to...Read more » -
What goes on at an LNG facility?
Refining LNG facilities are, in essence, refineries for methane gas. They receive relatively “raw” methane gas by pipeline, remove impurities, and liquefy the refined gas for storage or export. Some of the impurities, such as water vapor and sour gas, are removed to meet pipeline specifications or because they damage equipment. Other impurities, such as propane, butane, and ethane, are removed for sale—they often have higher sales values than...Read more » -
An Oil Pipeline Expansion in Washington?
There’s much ado about expansion plans for Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline, and with good reason: exporting tar sands oil through the Salish Sea poses huge spill risks to the region. Now there’s reason to think that Washington may see a giant pipeline expansion of its own. Kinder Morgan, an energy goliath with a checkered past, owns the Trans Mountain as well as the connected Puget Sound Pipeline, which runs through...Read more » -
British Columbia Embraces Electoral Reform
The 2017 British Columbia election results are in, and electoral reform is a winner! The BC Green Party made electoral reform a centerpiece of its platform, and the BC New Democratic Party (NDP) also campaigned on electoral reform. This week, the Greens and the NDP penned a “Confidence and Supply Agreement”—the Greens will guarantee support for NDP’s budgets and Premier—and they released a 10-page accord describing policies they will work...Read more » -
The Tar-Sands Threat to Northwest Waters
Every week another barge or tanker traverses the narrow straits through the San Juan Islands north of Seattle, bearing a cargo of tar-sands crude or other heavy oils from Canada, headed for refineries in Washington and California. But the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project approved in late 2016 by the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau threatens to make such transits daily occurrences, thus increasing many-fold the...Read more » -
Weekend Reading 5/19/17
Kristin The Roosevelt Institute (love!) just completed a study of basic income experiments—long version here and short summary here. The upshot: extra cash helps improve parenting, mental health, school attendance and test scores, and reduces substance abuse and addiction. What it doesn’t do is cause people to stop working. As an introduction to its advice to the modern American left, this article quotes an amazing (but not oft-quoted) speech by...Read more » -
Sightline’s Guide to Methods for Electing Legislative Bodies
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Glossary of Methods for Electing Legislative Bodies