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 …
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Resources to help you find your way in and around Seattle government
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.
Continue readingCity wins court fight over Skagit River dam… for now.
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.
Continue readingAll things must come to an end
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 …
Continue readingThursday news roundup
As the election coverage fades, the City Council’s 2022 budget takes prominence.
Continue readingNotes from today’s Council meetings
Here’s what went down today in the virtual Council Chambers.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chambers: October 18-22, 2021
It’s another mostly meeting-free week, as the Council continues its work on the 2022 city budget.
Continue readingThis week in Council Chambers: October 11-15, 2021
Budget deliberations continue; the Council has issues.
Continue readingInterbay spot zone likely to be voted out of committee Friday
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.
Continue readingTuesday news roundup
New affordable housing, the upcoming eviction cliff, and more.
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