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New Hacks and Wonks Episode!

At the Black Lives Memorial Garden, 12/27/23

Just 11 Percent of Encampment Residents End Up Sheltered After Sweeps; City Could Bring Back Neighborhood Corner Stores

In Texts With Burien City Manager, Encampment Contractor Asked for Cash Up Front, Complained About Pay

Decline in "Mom and Pop" Rentals Driven by National Trends, Not Local Renter Protections, City Audit Finds

“Nightmare Tenant” Story Amplified by Seattle Times Crumbles Under Scrutiny

The Invasion of the Corner Stores

Ten Questions to Ask About Seattle's Draft Comprehensive Plan Update

Harrell Hosts Friendly Press Conference With Council He Helped Elect

A Sad-Dad Soundtrack, a Master Class in Writing, and a Can't-Fail Cookie

City Unions Reach Tentative Contract, Business Spending on Council Campaigns Tops $1.5 Million

Without New Funding, Diversion Program at Center of Drug Law Will Stop Taking New Clients by May

Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm Is Leaving After 14 Months at Helm

Seattle Nice: Year in Review

Expert Panel “Disappointed” In Sound Transit’s Lack of Progress on Recommendations to Avoid Overruns, Delay

City of Burien Assails Church For Hosting Homeless People Displaced by City Sweeps

Three Fun Things for December 10, 2023

Seattle's Nicest Year in Review

Seattle Nice: What to Expect from the Next City Council

What's next for Seattle with a new city council?

Muckleshoot Tribe Opposes Pedersen’s Last-Ditch Tree “Protection” Plan

Report: Wedgwood Tree Dubbed "Luma" Is Much Younger Than Claimed

Audit Reveals Widespread Ethical Concerns About the City Department that Oversees Construction, Permitting, and Landlord-Tenant Law

What’s So Scary About Transit Riders?

No, Renter Protections Aren’t Driving out “Mom-and-Pop” Landlords

Three Fun Things for December 3, 2023

Week In Review on KUOW

No Local Capital-Gains Tax This Year; Water Tax Repeal Also On Hold

On KUOW: Burien's Last-Minute Shelter Deal

County Council Votes Down Last-Minute Proposal to Cut Levy Funding for Human Service Worker Wages

In Divided, Last-Minute Vote, Burien Says "Yes" to County's $1 Million Shelter Offer

Pedersen Plan Would Require State Approval to Remove Any Tree Larger than 12 Inches

Three Fun Things for Nov. 26, 2023

Under Vague Policy, Seattle Police Officers’ Reckless Driving Often Goes Unpunished

Seattle City Council Passes Budget, Rejects Transportation Impact Fees

Faced With Monday Deadline to Lose $1 Million for Shelter, Burien Takes No Action

Three Fun Things

PubliCola @ Hacks and Wonks

Sandeep and Erica Talk Council Elections, City Labor Negotiations, and More on KUOW's "Seattle Now"

Councilmember-Elect Rob Saka Compared 8-Inch Road Divider to Trump's Border Wall

City's 2024 Budget Will Fund Shotspotter—But Also Significant Progressive Priorities, Including $20 Million for Student Mental Health

"Financial Self-Care" Email Advises City Employees Seeking Wage Increase to "Avoid Impulse Buys"

New Podcast! Centrists Take Over the Seattle City Council. What Now?

Centrists flip Seattle city council. Now what?

Post-Election Analysis on Seattle Channel

County Website Failed on Election Night Due to "Traffic Issue"

Morales Surges While Other Progressives Flail in Latest Election Results; Mosqueda Explains Why She’ll Stay Through the End of This Year

Council Holds Lone Public Hearing on Legislation to Allow “Impact Fees” on New Housing

Firefighters’ Tentative Contract Could be Bad News for Other City Workers Seeking Pay Increases

Election Night Results Represent a Turn to the Center for Seattle

As Deadline to Use or Lose $1 Million in Shelter Funding Looms, Top Official Offers New Explanation for Failing to Inform Some on Council

Ruling Moves Seattle One Step Closer to "Impact Fees" on New Housing

County to Burien: Use the $1 million we offered for shelter last summer or lose it!

Update: Burien Confirms No-Bid Contract with Controversial Nonprofit

Burien's War On Sleeping Enters New Phase

City of Seattle Workers Hold "Practice Pickets" over Wages, Working Conditions

New Podcast!

Will Urbanism Win Seattle's city council races?

What are all these emails I'm getting all of a sudden?!? A guide to subscribing to PubliCola

Are Fourplexes Real?

Seattle's Vehicle Impoundment Policy Betrays Contempt, Not Compassion, for Those Living Homeless

Six-Member Behavioral Health Team Launches to Respond to Non-Emergency Calls, Accompanied by Cops

Coming soon

On Drugs: Seattle council races, final stretch edition

Election fever burns hot in two Seattle city council races

Was the plan to end homelessness in downtown Seattle doomed to fail?

Will the Seattle police video scandal provoke reform?

Will Seattle's proposed drug law make a difference?

Blame game on Seattle's hotel shelter program

Taxes and drugs

What really happened, Seattle?

Seattle Election Eve Palooza

Seattle city council election flambé

Baseball Sweep Denial and D4 Showdown in Seattle

Shake up but not stirred at city hall

Seattle's drug law debate

What's really going on with King County homelessness policy?

Seattle what should we do about drugs?

Voters approve crisis center levy. Now what?

Will Bruce Harrell's Executive Order on Drugs make a difference?

Lisa Daugaard's plan for "public disorder" on Third Avenue

Is Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison doing a good job with "repeat offenders."

Sound Transit board votes to skip Chinatown and First Hill

How to interpret Mayor Harrell's State of the City address

Your questions about Seattle council races, pedestrian deaths, and more

How to vote on the Seattle social housing levy I-135

Will the last person leaving Seattle City Council — turn out the lights

Billions and billions to end homelessness in King County

Emergency Podcast: Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant won't run again

Does historic preservation in Seattle go too far?

Why isn't Seattle's Alex Pedersen running for re-election, really?

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's Year in Review