For the past several days there have been ongoing revelations regarding mishandling of public records in the city’s executive branch, and particularly in the Mayor’s Office. In brief: for several months from late 2019 through mid-summer 2020, text messages from the city-issued phones of Mayor Durkan, SFD Chief Scoggins, and SPD Chief Best were not archived, and the problem wasn’t discovered until last summer. Once it was discovered and efforts to retrieve the lost texts failed, the Mayor’s Office tried to recreate them by contacting the people that the Mayor had texted. The Mayor’s Office then — allegedly at the …
Continue readingAuthor: Kevin Schofield
Kevin Schofield is a freelance writer and the founder of Seattle City Council Insight, a web site providing independent news and analysis of the Seattle City Council.
After graduating from Dartmouth College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, he worked for Microsoft Corporation for 26 years. That culminated in a term as Chief Operations Officer for Microsoft Research, the division of the company focused on advancing the state of the art in computing. Upon leaving Microsoft in 2014 he decided to embrace his love of writing.
Kevin volunteers at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, where he also serves on the Board of Directors. He is also Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.
Beyond writing, his personal passions are his twin daughters, photography, cooking, and playing the guitar. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
Tuesday news roundup
SPU rates are going up, and plenty more this morning in the news.
Continue readingMorales joins board of tax policy lobbyist, gets lobbied by them
Last week Councilmember Tammy Morales tweeted out an interesting announcement: she recently joined the board of the Economic Opportunity Institute, a Seattle-based organization that advocates for progressive tax policy (among other issues) and heavily lobbies the City Council.
Continue readingNotes from today’s Council meetings
So much going on: plenty of bills passed this afternoon, plus lots of details of upcoming committee meetings.
Continue readingEthics commission votes to approve Sawant settlement agreement
This afternoon, the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission voted to approve the negotiated settlement agreement with Councilmember Sawant over charges that she illegally used city resources for a non-city purpose and to support a ballot proposition last year.
Continue readingMonday news roundup
It’s going to be a beautiful, sunny, warm week. Enjoy it. And get vaccinated! Here’s the news.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chambers: May 10-14, 2021
Remember to bring provisions to Monday afternoon’s City Council meeting; it’s going to take a while. Here’s what’s going on this week.
Continue readingSawant settles ethics charge, admitting violation
On Monday, the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission will hold a special meeting at which it will vote on whether to approve a negotiated settlement with Councilmember Kshama Sawant over an ethics charge stemming from last year’s “Tax Amazon” ballot proposition campaign. The ethics charge is the basis for one of the three charges in the recall petition against Sawant.
Continue readingFriday news roundup
Welcome to Friday! You survived another week. Now here’s the news.
Continue readingThursday news roundup
Car tabs and street sinks. Here’s the news.
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