The West Seattle Bridge, the Navigation Team replacement, and more.
Continue readingWest Seattle Bridge cost-benefit analysis released, and the options are clear (even if the report isn’t)
Today SDOT finally released the long-awaited “cost-benefit analysis” on the various options for repair or replacement of the West Seattle Bridge. It’s 89 pages, it’s dense, and it wins the award for “worst executive summary.” SDOT had to publish a “reader’s guide” today to help people make sense of it. But in the end it tells us what we need to know in order to decide whether we should repair or replace the bridge. Here’s what it says.
Continue readingTuesday news roundup
The city rethinks the Navigation Team, and more.
Continue readingUpdate on court cases – October 19, 2020
It’s been a busy day for the city in court. Here are four updates — if nothing else, reading the briefs might just cure your insomnia.
Continue readingLewis announces first step toward replacing Navigation Team in compromise deal with Mayor’s Office
After three and a half weeks of working behind the scenes today Council member Andrew Lewis announced that an agreement had been reached between the Mayor’s Office, the City Council, and homeless outreach providers on a first step toward replacing the disbanded Navigation Team with a new model for how the city will deal with homeless encampments.
Continue readingMonday news roundup
There’s a new park open for all of us to enjoy! Here’s the news.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chambers
The budget work continues.
Continue readingJudge issues early ruling in CHOP neighbors’ lawsuit, and it doesn’t look good for the city
This afternoon, U.S. District Curt Judge Thomas Zilly issued his first substantive opinion in the lawsuit filed by businesses and residents neighboring the CHOP. The lawsuit alleges that the City of Seattle violated their property rights and denied them equal protection under the law by allowing the CHOP to exist as a lawless area, and in fact supporting its existence. The city had asked the court to dismiss the case entirely, and short of that to deny a class certification for plaintiffs. Judge Zilly’s ruling on those requests is a mixed bag in terms of what he granted and denied, …
Continue readingFriday news roundup
The Supreme Court tells Tim Eyman to take a seat, SPD officers are leaving before they can get laid off, and more.
Continue readingA footnote to history: the state Supreme Court tries to repair a past harm to Black lives
Buried on page 13 of today’s Washington State Supreme Court ruling invalidating Initiative 976 is a lengthy footnote. It does something very unusual for a footnote: it explicitly overturns a 1960 ruling by the Court, in an attempt to make amends for an incredibly racist opinion that has sat on the books for sixty years.
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