by Joe Nguyễn | Oct 8, 2026 | Press Room
Seattle’s public-safety debate often begins with a convenient lie. We pretend not to know what to do, then spend years studying familiar problems as they grow worse. We commission another study. We assemble another advisory group. We argue over semantics and wait for...
by Joe Nguyễn | Oct 6, 2026 | Press Room, Featured
San Francisco built a humane alternative between jail and walking away. Seattle already has many of the pieces to do the same. Part Three of a four-part series on what Seattle can learn from San Francisco Some of our most compassionate public policies are written as...
by Joe Nguyễn | Oct 1, 2026 | Press Room
San Francisco did not need another coordinating body to coordinate the existing coordinating bodies. It needed the people already at the table to make decisions. Seattle and this region have rarely encountered a hard decision that could not be handed to a workgroup....
by Joe Nguyễn | Sep 29, 2026 | Press Room
I am writing this somewhere between San Francisco and Seattle, on the flight home after several days spent trying to understand a city that appears to be changing in real time. Like many people, I had been watching that change from a distance. I followed Mayor Daniel...
by Joe Nguyễn | Aug 27, 2026 | Press Room
When elected officials abdicate their responsibility to govern, the loudest voices set the agenda, the most important problems go unsolved, and the public is left to deal with the consequences. Nothing tested my patience more as a state senator than hearing five words...
