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Legalizing Cheap Housing, Without Eliminating Standards
The C Is for CrankTwo weeks ago, Sightline director Alan Durning kicked off a blog series called "Legalizing Inexpensive Housing"; so far, his posts include an impassioned argument for rooming houses...
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Afternoon Fizz: Conservative Democrat Drops Committee Chairmanship
In an email last week, state Rep. Chris Hurst (D-31, Enumclaw, Sumner, rural Pierce County), a conservative house Democrat, informed his caucus colleagues that he no longer wanted to chair the Public...
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On Other Blogs Today: Pot, Pontoons, and Planning Yesler Terrace
1. A Thurston County judge's ruling that the legislature acted illegally when it eliminated an annual increase in pension benefits to some state retirees could "hobble" the state budget, the Olympian...
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I Want to See the Math
Caffeinated News & Gossip1. Fizz hears that KING 5 is cancelling Up Front, its public affairs news show. The show has had an 11-year run and next Friday's show will reportedly be its last.Up Front...
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State Senate "Majority" Leader Reaches Out to Republicans
Some Democrats have tactfully taken to revising state Sen. Ed Murray's (D-43, Seattle) new title from majority leader to caucus leader.Democrats unanimously elected Murray as leader last week....
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On Other Blogs Today: Cops, Conspiracies, and Complaints
1. Earlier this week, KING 5 had a sit-down interview with Jay Inslee, in which the governor-elect repeats his refrain about not raising taxes ("growing our economy" will take care of the state's...
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Catholic Church on Tent City: Privacy Concerns Were Valid
Image via Tentcity4.infoAs we've reported, a group of residents at Tent City 4, the homeless encampment that has been run, until this week, by the homeless advocacy group SHARE, has voted to split from...
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PubliCalendar: Thanksgiving and Black Friday
PubliCalendar For Thursday:Free Thanksgiving Dinner at The Hall at FauntleroyThe 14th free community Thanksgiving meal is hosted by Tuxedos and Tennis Shoes owners Meg and David Haggerty and David...
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Wednesday Jolt: Students, Evidently, Do Vote
Afternoon Jolt Today's winner: UW StudentsUW students made a statement this year. And no, it's not just that the marijuana legalization measure passed.It's that students voted. In big numbers. At...
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Afternoon Fizz: Republicans Respond to Murray; Sen. Brown Skeptical of Tom...
As we noted earlier today, state Sen. Ed Murray (D-43, Seattle), the newly electedDemocratic leader, sent a letter to the Republican caucus trying to get a conversation going about the senate...
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Morning Fizz: A Bit More Compelling
Caffeinated News & Gossip1. We'd usually save this for the PubliCalendar (our daily picks for civic nerds), but it deserves some extra notice: Today at 1:30 at the King County Courthouse (516...
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On Other Blogs: Manufacturing News, Losing Diversity
1. Seattle Transit Blog fact-checks the Seattle Times' histrionic story about anti-light-rail Bellevue City Council members' supposed "shock" that Sound Transit is thinking about building a light-rail...
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PubliCalendar: Heists, Green Spaces, and Afghanistan
Tamim Ansary talks all things Afghanistan this Tuesday at Town Hall. Photo via Identity TheoryFor Tuesday:Tamim Ansary: The Untold History of AfghanistanLearn the deeper, tribal circumstances of the...
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Seattle Times Overlooks a Key Factor in Ballard Rental Market—Renters
Urbanists tend to see in-city building booms as a positive thing: More supply lowers prices, and provides opportunities for people to live near their workplaces, rather than in sprawling suburbs. The...
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Monday Jolt: The Mayor and Local Journalism
Today's winner: Mayor Mike McGinn. McGinn started his term with the support of an unlikely alliance of social justice lefties (like Real Change director Tim Harris) and urbanist greens (like the Sierra...
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Morning Fizz: Hundreds of Public Comments
Caffeinated News & Gossip1. An intriguing green vs. green debate has started up between advocates for bicycle and pedestrian advocates and environmental activists about the the new SR 520 bridge:...
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Democrats Try to Ease Divide in Olympia and Within Own Caucus
UPDATE:Current Republican leader Sen. Mike Hewitt (R-16, Walla Walla)—he's stepping down tomorrow—issued the following (I must say, lukewarm) statement about the Democrats' overture. (I've bolded that...
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SPD Releases Controversial Punching Video
In response to public and media pressure, the Seattle Police Department released a dashboard-camera video of an SPD officer punching and subduing hit-and-run suspect Leo Etherly while arresting him on...
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Burgess Files for Mayor
City Council member Tim Burgess, one of several officials who has long been rumored to be considering a run for mayor, made it official this afternoon, filing his first campaign-finance compliance...
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On Other Blogs Today: Election 2012, Election 2013
1. Although a recount still seems inevitable, incumbent Republican Sen. Don Benton (R-17, Vancouver) declared victory today in the race that could change the balance of the state senate: Benton is...
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