Here’s a non-exhaustive round-up of Edmonds stuff that matters from June 2025 (so far.)

First pitch: for Edmonds to solve our problems, our politics need to get more personal. I mean that in the most gracious interpretation: we need to more urgently treat others’ ideas as deserving of the same consideration and scrutiny as our own.

Read on!

– Mackey

Photo of the week

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A good graph:

Shoreline school taxes will go down, even if an August levy passes, because Shoreline built more homes • “District says taxes will be lower thanks to more new neighbors [as the schools property tax levy burden is spread across more households] and paid-off debt.” • Oliver Moffat, Interurban Canopy, 5/29/25

These graphs approximately abide by the law of conservation of energy: the one above is going down, because the one below is going up.

Shoreline: homes permitted per year, by building type

Edmonds, from outside:

In case nobody told you recently, it’s good practice to occasionally peek outside the walls of Edmonds, and keep up with the rest of world. Sometimes, we even make their news:

Housing, trees, and parking: in Seattle, you can pick two • “More trees are lost to parking than to housing itself.” • Joshua McNichols, KUOW, 6/11/2025

That’s it for now. Until next time!

“Look before, or you’ll find yourself behind.”

- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735