{"id":7,"date":"2026-05-29T02:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-06-09T14:07:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:07:05","slug":"policy-briefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/policy-briefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy briefs, research and other writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle doesn&#8217;t have a spending problem: it has a collections problem.<br>\n<em>Sent May 16, 2026 to Mayor Wilson, County Councilmember Mosqueda (version below) and Assessor candidate Chris Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>From the Duwamish to the Dotcom Era: the Value of Seattle&#8217;s Waterfront<br>\n<em>Sent May 23 to Mayor Wilson,  County Councilmember Mosqueda, City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, CC:ed May 29 to various local media<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>City Hall Incompetence Plaza study<br>\n<em>Sent to Seattle Times, June 2, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>A network transaction<br>\n<em>Sent to Seattle Times, Geekwire, June 5, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Moving People, Not Money: An Analysis<br>\n<em>June 6<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurbanist.org\/op-ed-the-orca-whales-didnt-hire-toby-thaler\/\">The Orca Whales Didn&#8217;t Hire Toby Thaler\/The Urbanist, published May 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Orcas Didn\u2019t Hire Toby Thaler [draft with citations], republished with permission<br>\n<em>May 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"><code class=\"bg-text-200\/5 border border-0.5 border-border-300 text-danger-000 whitespace-pre-wrap rounded-[0.4rem] px-1 py-px text-[0.9rem]\"><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Paying Twice: How Sound Transit Built the Wrong Thing in the Wrong Order<br>\n<em>June 2026<\/em><br>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"lines\">\n<div class=\"line alt1\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle doesn&#8217;t have a spending problem: it has a collections problem. Sent May 16, 2026 to Mayor Wilson, County Councilmember Mosqueda (version below) and Assessor candidate Chris Roberts From the&thinsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherwise-books.com\/threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}