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Is this sharing's big breakthrough? Or business as usual? The new technologies of peer-to-peer economic activity are potentially powerful tools for building a social movement centered on sharing and cooperation. But achieving that potential will require...

It was 2012, and Leah Golby was sitting in a meeting she'd been looking forward to for three years. A recently elected city councilor for the 10th Ward of Albany, N.Y., Golby had heard years of lobbying from 10th Ward residents for a redesign of Madison...

Click to embiggen. Approximately half the city’s population is running for City Council right now. Lucky for you, the new district elections system means you only have to know about three of the races (two city-wide and one where you live). There are...

Here is this week’s list of family-friendly free or frugal events for around the Northwest, as well as some events going on around  the country. Looking for some fun things to do in the Greater Seattle Area this summer?  Check out our...

A 2012 version of this post appeared on this blog. I updated it in 2014 for the Washington Bikes blog. This is yet another light update with some “as of 2016” notes. The way I used to tell the story of  how I started bike commuting, it was an infrastructure...