This morning’s news coverage focuses on homeless encampments, drivers unionizing, and whether Seattle and Tacoma might ever merge. Continue reading Friday morning news roundup: homeless encampments
Category Archives: news
Thursday morning news roundup: mixed bag
A veritable potpourri of City Council news coverage today. Continue reading Thursday morning news roundup: mixed bag
Wednesday morning news roundup: election aftermath
News coverage continues to trickle in on the election earlier this month, and on Monday’s budget showdown. Continue reading Wednesday morning news roundup: election aftermath
Tuesday morning news roundup
Most of the morning news coverage is reports of yesterday’s marathon budget meeting (which I covered here for this site). Continue reading Tuesday morning news roundup
Monday morning news roundup
A potpourri of news and op-ed coverage of the Seattle City Council this morning. Continue reading Monday morning news roundup
Saturday morning news roundup: election, budget, parental leave, jail
Election coverage continues, and discussion of the 2016 city budget is ramping up. Continue reading Saturday morning news roundup: election, budget, parental leave, jail
Friday morning news roundup: election, housing, Key Arena, municipal broadband
More election coverage this morning, especially on the tight District 2 race and the practically-dead-heat District 1 race. KING 5, KOMO, The Stranger.
Capitol Hill Times has an article about the recently-passed housing legislation. Seattlish has an op-ed asking the City Council to “build all the things.”
KING5 has a story about a bizarre inquiry that the Mayor and council President Tim Burgess received about redeveloping Key Arena.
In the “media reporting on the media” category, MyNorthwest.com reports on local talk radio host Dori Monson’s rant about the proposal in front of the City Council to pilot municipal broadband.
Thursday morning news roundup: election, housing, SPD
Since yesterday was Veterans Day, no election ballot counting happened. Counting resumes today, with another update late this afternoon. Just a trickle of election news coverage in the last day. Seattle Times, Seattle Weekly, KING 5 Continue reading Thursday morning news roundup: election, housing, SPD
Morning news roundup: election, housing, labor, youth detention
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.
Continue reading Morning news roundup: election, housing, labor, youth detention
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 ).