Tag: seattle bike blog

August 2, 2023

My book release party is August 28 at Elliott Bay Book Company

I finally got the chance to hold an advance copy of my book Biking Uphill in the Rain: The Story of Seattle from behind the Handlebars, and it was a bit surreal. As soon as I got word that advance copies had arrived, I walked over to the press office inside UW Tower to get…
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December 7, 2020

Welcome Temporary Editor Ryan Packer

I am very excited to announce that Ryan Packer will be Temporary Editor of Seattle Bike Blog now through the end of February. As readers of The Urbanist know, Ryan is a very thorough reporter with a deep understanding of how transportation policy works (and fails to work) in Seattle. So I was very excited…
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November 30, 2020

Job Listing: Temporary Seattle Bike Blog Editor – Part-time for 3 months – CLOSED

UPDATE: Applications are closed. After more than a decade writing Seattle Bike Blog, it is time for me to take a sabbatical. So I am looking for someone to work part time reporting bicycle and transportation news in the Seattle area and handling other editorial work like moderating comments, posting to social media and maintaining…
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October 5, 2020

A message from the Editor

My dearest Seattle Bike Blog readers, I have been putting off this post for a couple weeks now, but I can’t avoid it any longer. The rigors of parenting during a pandemic have reached a point where I cannot keep up with the demands of running a full-time news site. So for the foreseeable future,…
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August 3, 2020

Celebrating 10 years of Seattle Bike Blog

In July 2010 at the midst of the Great Recession and with very little money in the bank, I quit my job to become an independent bike journalist. I had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea how to run a business. I didn’t know anyone in bicycle advocacy. But I did…
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January 13, 2017

How the Affordable Care Act helped me to start this independent news site

With Republicans in D.C. going through the steps to repeal the Affordable Care Act, I need to take a second away from bike news to talk about how the ACA is a major factor in the fact that Seattle Bike Blog exists. And given the continually dismal state of local journalism funding, it also seems…
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