Advocate for public health. Works to prevent injuries and violence from cars and firearms. Wants less stickers on fruit and more public bathrooms.
Tacoma, WA
Joined January 2009
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Reminder: Tacoma needs to fund and build 14 mi of new sidewalk every year in order to complete our missing sidewalk network by 2050.
Current annual progress is .5 mi.
Great news for sidewalk lovers:
Denver has approved a landmark referendum to upgrade the city's sidewalk network. (830 sidewalk miles too narrow for a stroller & 300 street miles w/o any sidewalks at all)
$40M/yr will be collected from property fees.
denverpost.com/2022/11/14/de…
Ryan Packer highlighting what Ramiro Chavez is hoping we Tacoma people won’t notice.
Here’s what you need to know: Tacoma public works director put forth a budget that defunded Vision Zero.
At the same time that TPD Chief asked for $43M more (a 20% ⬆️).
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Hardening schools because of perceived risk of an outside threat of gun violence introduces its own negative externalities and doesn’t address the most likely source of violence. This podcast highlights several of them and focuses on what would be a better use of time:
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we need an indoor clean air act
Air purifiers in Finnish daycare reduced children's illnesses by 18% in a carefully controlled study. This implies huge potential for better public health and cost savings from sick leaves, with a simple intervention against airborne infections.
yle.fi/a/74-20089670
Vacuumed under my bed, which meant I had to relocate my emotional support library that’s always there. These are the collections that I currently need at my fingertips.
I look forward to seeing how CM Hines approaches the next budget, and how he might increase Public Works’ budget to fix the missing sidewalks. BPTAG has asked for years that IPS invest in a Pedestrian Coordinator to oversee this work.
I spent a week walking 70 miles across Tacoma. I learned a lot about our city’s needs | Opinion thenewstribune.com/opinion/a…
Please @thenewstribune @pbsanti0610 stop writing about these crashes like this. Tell me: What was the make/model of the car? How fast was the driver going? What’s the speed limit on that road? How many crashes have been there before? How old was the driver?
3-year-old seriously injured after being hit by vehicle in Tacoma. Driver cooperating thenewstribune.com/news/loca…
The corresponding pictures of bumper stickers, t-shirts, flags, etc. are helpful to the points made about how fascism, and Christian nationalism take root. Worth the scroll with podcast recs at the end.
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Kudos to @petejtalbot for accurately describing this pedestrian who was run down by a driver (and not ‘a car’ as is often written).
Pacific Ave remains one of our deadliest corridors.
Tacoma police investigating after hit-and-run driver kills pedestrian thenewstribune.com/news/loca…
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Oversized SUVs and trucks kill people in crashes, catalyze climate change, and widen inequality. And the problem is getting worse.
A 🧵 about my deep dive on car bloat, in @Slate
Louder… for the municipalities in the back who continue to have antiquated thinking (and funding) on sidewalks.
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Seattle Officer driving 74 mph without his full siren on, hits and kills a woman in a crosswalk minutes after learning the call he was responding to wasn’t life or death. Very curious to see what King County Prosecutor Charges here.
The SPD officer who killed Jaahnavi Kandula was driving at three times over the speed limit when he hit her. via @ericacbarnett @PubliColaNews
publicola.com/2023/06/16/sea…
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Vision Zero is succeeding in Sweden and failing here because they chose safety as their one priority. You can’t have three priorities. There’s no way for safety to be priority if another priority is the rapid movement of thousands of potential weapons through dense space.
This road fatality is tragic and highlights how racism and road design failed the Native woman killed. Thank you to @zoe_buchli and @NoraMabie for including crash data on the road where this happened. Reporters: more of that, please.
In Montana: Mika J. Westwolf, a Native woman, was struck & killed by a driver named Sunny White, who was in the vehicle with her two children, 4-year-old “Aryan” and 2-year-old “Nation”
White is not in custody and is not currently facing criminal charges
missoulian.com/news/arlee-fa…
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#FromTheArchive: “All good art is political! There is none that isn’t. And the ones that try hard not to be political are political by saying, ‘We love the status quo.’” —Toni Morrison, Nov/Dec 2008 at.pw.org/ToniMorrison
Bill to end child marriage, HB 1455, is still alive. It’s referred to Law & Justice Committee whose VC is 27th’s very own @SenatorTrudeau.
app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?B…
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So many threads in this conversation are important to the questions being asked in local public health spaces. Highly recommend this podcast with @ezraklein and @RichardvReeves.
I loved my conversation on how boys and men are not alright with Ezra Klein on his @nytimes
podcast. He really is a superb interlocutor & made me think differently about some aspects of my own subject area. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
