Last week’s election continues to dominate the news coverage of the City Council. The latest vote tally shows the District 1 race to be a dead-heat, with the candidates separated by only 6 votes. Seattle P-I, Cascadia Advocate.
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Morning news roundup
There is still plenty of coverage of last week’s City Council election, particularly of positions 1 and 2 where the race has tightened while ballots continue to be counted. Seattle P-I, KIRO 7 , Crosscut, Seattle Globalist, KPLU, The other big news is yesterday’s votes on housing affordability. Seattle Times, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, RealEstateRama, The Stranger Geek Wire has an article about the debate over whether Seattle should spend $5 million to pilot a municipal broadband program. This proposal generated a significant amount of discussion on Oct. 29th during the council’s budget review meetings (video – jump to 41:50 ).
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As expected, there has been much coverage of the Seattle City council election. Lots of speculation (but little consensus) about what the new look of the City Council will mean for Seattle. Here are links for your reading pleasure: Seattle Times: Seattle City Council to be younger, more female, diverse Seattle Times: Urbanists appear to be big winners in Seattle election The Stranger: New Ballot Count Shows… The Stranger: What do last night’s election results mean for the future of Seattle? Seattle P-I: Burgess up, Deborah Juarez and Lorena Gonzalez are new Seattle City Council Members Seattle Weekly: So much for …
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