Alison Jean Smith
@alisonjeansmith.bsky.social
Local Sightings Film Festival Director at Northwest Film Forum by day; freelance reporter for The Stranger, South Seattle Emerald, REDEFINE and The Urbanist by night
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We made it to Olympia! If you believe in what we did, please please sign up for remote or in-person testimony tomorrow to tell the legislature to remove the 10% E bike tax from the transportation bill and save the E bike industry! (Sign your position as “other”) app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
April 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
We made it to Olympia! If you believe in what we did, please please sign up for remote or in-person testimony tomorrow to tell the legislature to remove the 10% E bike tax from the transportation bill and save the E bike industry! (Sign your position as “other”) app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?...
Reposted by Alison Jean Smith
Tomorrow I will be joining @dydxlmao.bsky.social and @danielhep.me on an E-bike ride to Olympia to testify that there should be NO 10% TAX ON NEW E-BIKES TO PAY FOR HIGHWAY EXPANSION! Contact your representatives and tell them to remove this tax from SB5801 and sign up to testify on Tuesday
April 21, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Tomorrow I will be joining @dydxlmao.bsky.social and @danielhep.me on an E-bike ride to Olympia to testify that there should be NO 10% TAX ON NEW E-BIKES TO PAY FOR HIGHWAY EXPANSION! Contact your representatives and tell them to remove this tax from SB5801 and sign up to testify on Tuesday
My latest for The Urbanist! I loved digging into the nitty-gritty of affordable housing construction with longtime CID nonprofit SCIDpda. Their projects prove that affordable housing can be high-density, community-oriented, environmentally friendly, AND beautiful:
NEW STORY // Seattle CID Development Authority Expands into Beacon Hill, Fighting Displacement www.theurbanist.org/2025/01/07/s...
Seattle CID Development Authority Expands into Beacon Hill, Fighting Displacement - The Urbanist
# Seattle Chinatown International District Preservation and Development Authority (SCIDpda) is seeking to anchor Asian communities in place in and around the CID, with Beacon Pacific Village its lates...
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January 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My latest for The Urbanist! I loved digging into the nitty-gritty of affordable housing construction with longtime CID nonprofit SCIDpda. Their projects prove that affordable housing can be high-density, community-oriented, environmentally friendly, AND beautiful: