My next door neighbor Anna is an amazing gardener and a beekeeper (and friend!). She unfortunately has a lot of unpredictable health challenges. She lost all her bee colonies last year and is fundraising for new bees. Donate $25 w/in 2-3 miles of Crown Hill and get some delicious chocolates!

Tonight! We'll make the Comp Plan make sense and actionable! Register: www.bit.ly/CompPlan2026

oh hey finally

Whelp. Guess we can say goodbye to anything left in the Gulf of Mexico that’s managed to hang on through Climate Change.

Catching up on some of the many tabs I have open "to read later." The state codified McKinney-Vento school transportation rights for homeless students. GREAT! However, one reason M-V is expensive for SPS is because the federal funding is a pittance and the state doesn't fund it (except sometimes).

need a damn children's liberation movement. the Grand Old Pedophiles have made it so clear that children are objects that you should be able to do whatever you want with and now that explicitly includes torture. none of us are free until the kids are free.

Officials Gather to Celebrate First Crosslake Light Rail Commuter to Flip Off Rush Hour Traffic; tinyurl.com/3tpr43kr

Once again

Yep. This is the way. It’s not enough to ban phones in class. The amount of tech usage has to go way down and that includes the school-issued laptops. Use them sparingly, kids don’t need to take them home, let’s be smarter about tech in school.

OMG Fish War is out streaming for free!!!!! This is an EPIC and riveting documentary that every PNWer must see to understand the fierce battles that Indigenous folks here have fought for us to save beloved salmon and the environment for us all. We owe them everything. tubitv.com/movies/10005...

Reminding everyone where D5 candidate Julie Kang's (seen here attending a Bruce Harrell fundraiser) politics align.

CM Foster has an amendment on deck that would add $10 million to the library levy specifically for renovations at the Koolhaus library, including the children's center.

I’m taking a break in the sunny window with our Housework Supervisor:

House is coming together! My awesome friends came together and helped me purge and clean this weekend, including one of my besties visiting from MA. May the hard years finally be gone.

I’m purging my house of bad juju and junk this weekend (it’s when my bestie could visit), but my heart is with you all on the NEW TRAIN!

These meetings have become political rallying cries for opponents and they are treating the professional staff as if they are oppositional elected officials holding a town hall rather than professional staff presenting a technocratic report.

Let's be frank. Career and Technical Education (CTE) through Seattle Public Schools and the community colleges leaves A LOT to be desired. For example, compare the offerings at SPS (www.seattleschools.org/departments/...) versus where I grew up in Baltimore County (www.bcps.org/curriculum/p...).

Been listening to the first meetings of the Seattle School Board's new committees this week. Talk about loss of institutional knowledge from the damage SOFG did by destroying them. It's like watching someone who has been in bed for years try to use their legs again.

Why Walking School Bus and Bike Bus programs matter, in one chart. (Resources for starting your own: www.washingtonsaferoutes.org/resources.html and bikebus.world)

Here's our full story comparing how the new Seattle Police Officer's Guild contract stacks up with the accountability reforms the City Council passed in 2017. Many provisions intended to boost oversight and ensure timely police discipline aren't implemented. www.axios.com/local/seattl...

Seattle Public Schools employees will return to full-time in-person work

For decades schools phased out wood shop as everyone flocked to computers. But AI has made the trades hot again — right as Seattle Central cuts its wood program.

Seattle Public Schools rolls out new SaferWatch app for tips and emergency reporting www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/03/seat...

Privacy advocates and police watchers, can you tell me what you know about this SaferWatch app that Seattle Public Schools is asking us to download? I'm also about to submit a PRR. Who is paying for it? It says federally-funded...um I don't want anything blessed by the current admin on my phone.

Fun times in the land beyond sidewalks AND street sewers/gutters. The basement drain is clogged. The street water is going down the steep driveway to the under-house garage. Because the drain in front of the garage door is not functioning, we now have a flooded basement. Plumbers are doing things.

The reason Sound Transit 3 expansion exists at all is because of Seattle voters' enthusiasm. And yet all three proposals cut back Seattle lines 🤮

She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section. A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.

Baking a birthday cake — a thread. The wet ingredients have been sitting out to come to room temperature.

The continued loss of information in the transition to the digital age is going to be staggering. Especially as hard drives and storage mechanisms start to physically degrade.

It's 🌸TIIIIIIIIME🌸

Oh daaaamn.

I hate how much people are determined to use side roads. Because drivers were cutting across Greenwood at the pedestrian signal at 83rd, they installed post barriers (yay!). However, now people are forcing their way onto Greenwood and turning left at 84th, slowing everyone trying to go straight.

NEW: Amidst all the drama over the millionaires' tax, the 2026 session saw legislators go backward on K-12 public school funding, with only promises of doing better in the future. Here's an overview of what happened under the dome in Olympia:

My 6th grader is doing this curriculum now and it's awful.

Op-Ed from head of WA Assoc. of School Administrators: "Despite unified requests from school leaders, educators and families across the state, lawmakers failed to address the cost pressures school districts face." www.seattletimes.com/opinion/wa-l...

In 2019 the district adopted Amplify science, even though that was not the top recommendation of the committee, if I am remembering correctly.

That was in 2014, when they rejected the advisory committee’s recommendation and went with Math in Focus, a “Singapore Math” curriculum

Unacceptable. Let's organize to Save Ballard Rail. DM me if you want to help. Guiding principles: ▶️ Must build the entire line & stations shown below ▶️ Must build as quickly as possible ▶️ Cannot come at expense of other ST3 projects ▶️ Savings come from adopting Euro practices ▶️ Will need more $$

so I don't think this is a good time for me to bring this up (when has that stopped me) but in 2015 or so we did go with a different math curriculum than the committee wanted? I don't know the process for how that occurred but...

Vasquez really owns our stagnant reading performance, she’s been here so long - should be a top layoff when they reorg later this year, just not effective in their job

Earlier this week, my colleague Monica joked about being dead by the time light rail came to Ballard. I said "Well, I hope you're alive in 13 years." (Ballard's line was set to open in 2039). With today's news, I still don't think we'll be dead when it's finally built, but we might be a lot older.

We're watching "March Seattle School Board Meeting, Part 2: The Introductioning" today at 4:30pm. This is a continuation of last week's meeting, as they took too long on the action items. Here's a link to the Agenda for the March 18, 2026 meeting: www.seattleschools.org/board-meetin...

Fuck.

If you're not following Annie, you should be, she consistently raises important alarm bells about public education, right-wing efforts to impose their agenda on it, and the near-total silence of progressives about it

Spring is my favorite season. This is a good list. I think I'm going to head to the Market after School Traffic Safety Committee Friday.

“Engineers, pilots, air traffic controllers, and ground crews made aviation extraordinarily safe not by polling passengers, but by treating safety as a non-negotiable foundation, and then inviting the public to make choices within that foundation.”

ARE WE SURPRISED NOOOOOOO

Seattle police said they made an arrest in the January case in which two teenagers were shot and killed in Rainier Valley.

NYC Mayor Mamdani will lower speed limits to 15 mph in school zones and ask the city council to drop the default limit citywide to 20 mph.