As council members continue to speculate that Mayor Katie Wilson is sweeping fewer encampments (a bad thing, in their view), Josh argues in his column that the ongoing presence of encampments shows ...

Josh Feit More Sweeps ≠ Less Homelessness  During last week’s city council budget hearings, Ballard council member Dan ...

By Erica C. Barnett Matthew Didier, the Seattle police lieutenant who was caught on body camera footage encouraging his ...

The city of Seattle and King County will be on the hook for at least $16.7 million in previously unreported costs accrued by the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, city and county officials ...

By Erica C. Barnett Mayor Katie Wilson’s centrist critics on the Seattle City Council spent most of Wednesday accusing ...

On Seattle Nice last week, we briefly discussed a column by the Seattle Times’ Danny Westneat, titled “Another ‘blank check’ program passes at King County.” I had just read the column the morning we ...

According to SDOT’s “intercept” surveys of West Seattle Junction visitors (conducted in-person rather than online), a 66 ...

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle City Council approved a new permitting scheme designed to gradually prohibit RVs from ...

Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed 2027 budget (announced earlier this week, while I was out of town) would accomplish something that her predecessor, Bruce Harrell, never really attempted: It would close ...

The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of more than $13 million as part of a police contract, signed in 2025, that gave officers retroactive pay ...

Seattle Nice has two interviews for you this week! On Friday’s show, we sat down with Mayor Katie Wilson and her budget director, Aly Pennucci, to talk about Wilson’s deficit-busting budget proposal, ...