(Editor’s note: Alex Pedersen is running to represent District 4 in City Council. District 4 extends from Wallingford to Lake Washington, and, after skirting Green Lake, reaches up to Wedgwood. Alex published a neighborhood newsletter for five years called “4 to Explore” which frequently featured Wallingford. He also attended community meetings here as a former aide to City Council President Tim Burgess.)

Alex Pedersen with son at Archie McPhee’s in 2014 conducting important research for the community newsletter “4 to Explore”

Archie McPhee, Blue Star Café, Chutney’s Bistro, Fainting Goat Gelato, Meowtropolitan, Molly Moon’s, Ro Ro’s barbecue, Wallingford Wurst Festival, …

(Alex Pedersen, publisher of 4toExplore, and a Wallyhood sponsor, recently ran a survey on local issues. Here are the results.)

We heard your voice and the results are HERE. Nearly 400 subscribers from Wallingford to Wedgwood completed our 14-question survey about local issues May 8-10, 2018.

We believe our city government should “conduct official surveys and release results to the public,” as we urged in our Crosscut column entitled, “4 Ideas to Make City Hall Listen.”  While our annual survey is not “official,” we hope it advances and clarifies important issues impacting our communities in Wallingford & throughout …

If you feel like City Hall is not listening, it’s time to subscribe to our 4 to Explore newsletter for North Seattle, in addition to Wallyhood. Founded four years ago, 4 to Explore covers issues and events from Wallingford to Wedgwood. No ads and no holding back.

Legendary urban thinker Jane Jacobs quickly discovered that City Hall often ignores individual neighborhoods. “Sometimes the city [government] is not the potential helper, but the antagonist of a street,” she wrote in her seminal work The Death and Life of Great American Cities.  To get City Hall to listen, she concluded, …