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 ...
Seafor, the political group created by former Seattle City Council member Sara Nelson to funnel anonymous contributions to groups supporting “pragmatic” centrist candidates, has taken back the $30,000 ...
By Erica C. Barnett Matthew Didier, the Seattle police lieutenant who was caught on body camera footage encouraging his ...
The Seattle City Council approved a new permitting scheme designed to gradually prohibit RVs from parking for more than two hours inside city limits on a supermajority 6-3 vote yesterday. (Alexis ...
This year, voters in North Seattle will be choosing a councilmember to replace former District 5 councilmember Cathy Moore, who quit a year and a half into her four-year term. The district has lacked ...
The city of Seattle and King County will be on the hook for at least $16.7 million in previously unreported costs accrued by ...
By Erica C. Barnett Mayor Katie Wilson’s centrist critics on the Seattle City Council spent most of Wednesday accusing ...
According to SDOT’s “intercept” surveys of West Seattle Junction visitors (conducted in-person rather than online), a 66 ...
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 ...
1. Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes, responding to a question from PubliCola, said the police department does not plan to slow down hiring, despite a city council presentation this week that concluded ...