Confirmed: Katie Wilson will be mayor of Seattle, ousting the incumbent from his left. And Erika Evans will be the new city attorney, ousting the GOP city attorney after promising to take the office in a more progressive direction. What do progressives' win mean for law enforcement? NEW IN BOLTS:

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I've seen enough. Congratulations, Mayor-elect Katie Wilson!

Congratulations to our new Mayor-Elect Wilson!!

Congratulations to Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson! @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social I’m looking forward to working together in building a city that is affordable, safe, and thriving for working families!

TIL Clyde Hill has a 120 square foot limit on a treehouse but no tree preservation ordinance whatsoever.

this is literally never not accurate

Fun fact, local sex pest dave meinert (owner of huckleberry square and mecca and 5 point) joined Burien’s lawsuit to overturn the voter passed minimum wage increase. His lawyer’s argument was “it’s not like we don’t want to pay our employees” meinert recently settled a wage theft lawsuit 🤔

Tanya Woo winning more votes than all but four people in Seattle history and losing by 17 points certainly tells you something about having a race during a presidential year

Check your ballot. It’s possible that it’s been challenged due to leaving the ballot envelope unsigned or a signature mismatch. You can cure that with King County Elections so your ballot is counted! kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

My ballot was challenged and it only took me two minutes to correct. Please, check your ballot status!

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

I’m going to put in an inquiry on this. I have a lot of questions about how enforcement is currently being conducted.

The Seattle Shield Initiative is a big win for small businesses in Seattle. Thank you to our favorite council member @alexis4seattle.bsky.social for giving our struggling small businesses some relief and making large corporations pay their fair share.

We anticipated the day after the election would look like a continuation of day 1, where the results typically favor the more conservative candidate. This election is no exception. We were thrilled yesterday to see voters lining up to fill ballot boxes throughout the city.

I think that the fact that ST turns off comments categorically for a certain cartoon commentator says a lot about the kind of speech they find acceptable

Almost none of the media is getting this point. Mamdani is getting through to city residents not because he’s a particular degree of left, but because everything he says and does makes clear that he loves the city and wants to govern it to be a better city. Cuomo is transparently suburbanist.

Pretty ironic that Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is using "Katie Wilson dropped out of college" as his talking point, given that his deputy mayor, Tim Burgess, dropped out of college with just a handful of credits left.

I don't have the time to write such a thoughtful post but I organized with Katie to pass a ban on rental junk fees. It was an amazing experience and we successfully banned some really abusive behavior coming from the worst landlords in Seattle.

How can you not be romantic about baseball and walkable cities

Big news: Alexis Rinck's Better Bus Lanes budget amendment officially has five co-sponsors, giving it majority support on the city council.

Rinck is a one-woman council majority.

Listening in on the Bainbridge Island City Council meeting tonight, for a discussion of their Comprehensive Plan - which was due last December. A consultant is telling the council right now that if they don't take "bold action" it's likely to be 2 years late and the city will face state sanctions.

I just got around to actually reading this @kuow.org piece on me, and there’s ANOTHER major inaccuracy, beyond the "parents pay my bills" bit. 🧵

I was at a costume party and someone had a little shop of horrors sock puppet and me in my infinite wit made a joke about feeding it the SPD budget. This person did not get it, but in my defense someone else was dressed as hot rat summer and I was dressed as an orca card.

The People love the People’s Councilmember

Everyone please send your thanks to City Light workers! The team restored power for about 29,000 households last night (~4,000 still to go so hang in there). Feeling deeply appreciative of the hardworking emergency management team and line workers for their work last night!

I don’t believe in uniforms for children, they should express themselves, but we need a dress code for behind home plate

Next week in Clyde Hill: a hearing on whether a group of property owners can force the removal of multiple trees on 2 other properties because they're "blocking their view of the downtown Seattle skyline and lake views." They're trying to remove all trees planted before 1953 on 1 of the properties.

BOOP

Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.

good luck to all the nice, likable players who are playing in the World Series. hope you do well and I hope the jerks strikeout every time or if they are a pitcher that they can’t get any batters out

Every candidate is talking about how critical the CARE team is, while the mayor and council are set to ratify a contract that continues to hamper the CARE team’s ability to respond

Now 5 days closer to November’s Election Day and this is somehow even more valid.

I would personally love to ignore all of this. Collins sucks. Mills is too old. Platner says all the right stuff and he seems young and energetic and HE HAS A GIANT NAZI TATTOO WHAT ARE YOU TALING ABOUT

Our passive house 10plex is looking good—omg it is TIGHT! @lanefab.com —interior single stair+passive house is not for faint of heart design teams/GCs! Requires lots of troubleshooting when deployed on tiny urban lots!

Definitely should have been 9 games, given the exchange rate between the US and Canada

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Hmm, sometimes shoppers don't use cars

It’s been an absolute blast co-chairing this Elections Committee with @hmshowell.bsky.social and with a lot of support from @metropolitanglide.bsky.social, @typewriteralley.bsky.social and other volunteers that make up this committee (which is separate from our board)! Happy to take any questions!

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(You can view the data here: pikeplacemarket.community.highbond.com/document/e24... ) And don't forget to visit Pike Place Market this fall, and when you buy something from a vendor mention how much you're enjoying the street pilot! Even if you're a local there's always more to explore:

Good news: Sales at Pike Place Market were up 9.7% in September! That's four months of solid data showing the pedestrianization pilot is good for business. Add your ideas for how to keep the momentum going this fall and winter: actionnetwork.org/letters/pike...

*whispers* no kings means no draftkings

The Bread Carrier, by Pablo Picasso, 1905

In 2021 when The Urbanist interviewed Harrell, he got mad at us for the interview time (his choice) and for not endorsing him during an election when The Urbanist did not exist yet.

Sinnataggen (The Angry Boy), by Gustav Vigeland, 1928, 📸 by @alykhankr.bsky.social