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Viewed from the outside, the troubles at Seattle’s Department of Transportation seem petty, insular and, to one who likes his coffee strong and his institutions dysfunctional, sadly familiar. I am not one of those sheeple. In 2009, after the snowstorm shitstorm, I trusted that all the attention focused on their behavior would generate some valuable [...]

It felt good to ride a creative outburst this past month. While there’s never a shortage of self-generated projects, they tend to land squarely in the middle of my comfort zone. But when someone else comes to me and asks for something, that’s a horse of a different PMS color. For example, I don’t know [...]