Lindblom briefed journalists in July 2021: Covering America’s Crumbling Roads and Bridges.

Mike has written 33 years for newspapers in Washington state, and spent most of 2020 investigating how and why premature shear cracks nearly toppled the West Seattle concrete bridge, now closed for two years. Other top stories explore the epidemic of distracted driving, lapses in walk-bike safety, road preservation needs, and the nation’s largest transit expansion. The American Society of Civil Engineers in 2016 honored his coverage of the world-record Highway 99 tunnel bore, and in 2015 he shared the newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize in breaking news, for a survival story at the catastrophic Stillaguamish River mudslide. Mike has a history degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla.