Wednesday morning, the Council took up its quarterly update to the city’s budget. Normally these discussions are an excellent cure for insomnia, and the first quarter update especially so since it involves retroactive cleanup of last year’s budget, rolling over small amounts of leftover funds from the pervious year’s budget, accepting grants, and correcting all the mistakes and oversights in last fall’s eight-week-long annual budget development marathon as well as any new projects that need to be funded (like $46,000 to reopen five wading pools at city parks this summer). But a bit of grandstanding by Council member Sawant brought …
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No big stories today, but lots of musings on the past year and the one to come.
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This morning’s news covers Amazon, Comcast, the NHL, police reform, gun safety, and the Seattle P-I globe.
Continue readingSawant fires up her supporters on parental leave
Council member Kshama Sawant is throwing down the gauntlet on parental leave.
Continue readingTuesday morning news roundup
Most of the morning news coverage is reports of yesterday’s marathon budget meeting (which I covered here for this site).
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