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After running quiet for a couple of weeks to works out all the kinks, I’m announcing today a new site: Seattle Paper Trail. Seattle Paper Trail is a feed of “the stuff you should be reading” to be an informed Seattle resident. It focuses on primary documents, with a very light touch of introduction, context-setting and analysis. Unlike SCC Insight, there will rarely be long-form journalism at Seattle Paper Trail; the aim is to disseminate original primary documents so you can read them yourself, rather than have you read someone else’s interpretation of them. For those of you who are …

Before I sail off into the sunset, I want to share with you a compendium of resources and some wisdom on how to find out what’s going on in Seattle government.

Today U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Rothstein dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Sauk-Suiattle Tribe against Seattle City Light over the Gorge Dam on the Skagit River, which impedes salmon fisheries upriver.

I’ll cut to the chase: back in September, after much soul-searching, I decided that after six years of work on SCC Insight it was time for me to move on.  At the end of December, I’ll be discontinuing publishing here. I started SCC Insight in late 2015 as a writing project, after I had left my corporate job and when I needed a daily impetus to continue developing my writing skills. I had neither the foresight nor the intention that it would grow into what it has become today, nor did I understand that I was creating a monster that …

As the election coverage fades, the City Council’s 2022 budget takes prominence.

Here’s what went down today in the virtual Council Chambers.

It’s another mostly meeting-free week, as the Council continues its work on the 2022 city budget.

Budget deliberations continue; the Council has issues.

Yesterday a proposed rezone in the Interbay industrial zone to allow the Seattle Storm to build a practice facility, discussed earlier this week in this article, had a public hearing and discussion in the City Council’s Land Use committee. And despite the dubious legality of such a spot rezone, it will likely be voted out of committee on Friday with little to no opposition.

New affordable housing, the upcoming eviction cliff, and more.