Citizens used to vote out loud, in front of their neighbors. Athens, Rome, Jefferson's Virginia, Kentucky until 1891. Cicero spent his career fighting the secret ballot. So did John Stuart Mill.
Jun 4, 2026
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Citizens used to vote out loud, in front of their neighbors. Athens, Rome, Jefferson's Virginia, Kentucky until 1891. Cicero spent his career fighting the secret ballot. So did John Stuart Mill.
Five of nine WA Supreme Court seats are on the 2026 ballot. The court reads seven to two against the 1933 Culliton rule. Bloom, O'Donnell, Larson, Edwards, Stevens.
Snoqualmie Pass closes 200+ times a winter. Twin mega-bores along I-90 give the PNW a year-round freight and rail link. The Robbins Company that builds the machines is in Auburn.
A federal classical arch for the American 250th. Restoring civic ambition to federal architecture.
EO 14344 formally declares American democracy descends from Athens. The diplomatic and architectural implications are enormous.
The White House declared American democracy descends from Athens, then mandated Greek architecture for federal buildings. Nobody connected this to the Parthenon Marbles sitting in London.
If you mandate classical architecture without mandating materials, you get fiberglass columns. Stone, marble, brass, copper. The materials half of EO 14344.
A pair of monumental statues at the Gates of the Mountains on the Missouri River. Civic ambition that reaches the scale of the landscape.
The Stamp Act crisis was solved when towns started writing each other. We are building the same network across Washington for the 2026 court vote.
$3.08M budget. 99.9% federal pass-through. SAMHSA SP-22-001. The paper trail nobody else followed.
What downtown Seattle built in the boom years, and what should have been built instead.
In 1893 Burnham built a city of 200 buildings on a Chicago swamp in 26 months and drew 27 million visits. The founding event of American civic architecture.
In 1905 Burnham planned Manila for the Taft administration. Most of it was destroyed in the 1945 Battle of Manila. The plan is still on the public record.
Burnham's hill town for 25,000 on a Cordillera plateau, drawn in ten days, mostly built. Still the summer capital of the Republic.
An eleven-year information operation. Twelve documents. Five thousand committee members across thirteen colonies. The Founders did not start with a war. They started with a mailing list.
The consent decree, the federal grants, and the infrastructure control points where Washington's accountability fight actually moves.
The agency that would collect the new 9.9% income tax on AGI over $1M, if Culliton falls. The legislative paper trail behind ESSB 6346, framed as the modern Stamp Act.
The park, the contamination, and the civic argument over what the lakefront should become.
Six deliverables holding SDOT accountable on budget, bike lane usage, business impact, parking removal, advocacy influence, and emergency access.
Every policy failure has a cost. Business closures, 911 property damage, graffiti, encampment violations, foreclosures, quantified as a running liability the city owes its residents.
A framework for grand jury petitions and sheriff-led accountability coalitions in Washington State.
Full analysis of Virgil Bogue's 1911 plan of Seattle, what got built, what didn't, and what the city looks like now if it had.
In 1911 Chicago gave every 8th grader a book about how their city worked. Full analysis of the original manual and what a national rollout looks like.
The White House established a Task Force to Eliminate Fraud targeting federal benefit programs. TBC sent its KCRHA/SHA accountability package to the VP and FTC Chairman.
A data inventory of the King County Regional Homelessness Authority. 9 PRA requests filed. The numbers don't add up.
It takes 18 months to get a building permit in Seattle. Inspectors don't show up. Contractors leave. The data on how SDCI broke the building pipeline.
Combined sewer overflows dump raw sewage into Puget Sound 87 times a year. The EPA consent decree gives the federal government a lever most people don't know about.
Seattle's World's Fair moment. The standard the rest of this site is benchmarked against.
Seattle's 1911 city plan. Voted down. The bones of what got built later are all from it.
Washington State ranks dead last in police staffing for the 15th year. Here is what Tokyo, Singapore, and Dubai do differently, and what it would take to get there.