In Boston, the shelves are empty of flour. In Olympia, the co-op ran out of yeast. People are home baking bread—a pleasure that relies on time and warmth. Starbucks uses more than 8,000 paper cups a minute (4 billion a year and mountains of recyclable trash). For fun let’s say other disposable beverage containers are 2-3 times that. For a month, a lot of us have been brewing coffee or tea at home. Even the word “brewing” suggests a pleasant space of time. And we have time; we share this pause with our neighbors and the rest of the country. Musing over the pages of a book savor both the tea and reminder of the pleasure of “inconvenience.”

About this Issue — April 2020 — Hitting the pause button is giving us time to think
America’s response to coronavirus pandemic has revealed a simple truth: So many policies that our elected officials have long told us were impossible and impractical were eminently possible and practical all along....
Then This Happened — April 2020
Then this happened… WIP covered freight derailments in February, and this month, Washington legislators sent Governor Inslee a bill that requires freight and passenger trains…

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