MARCH 28

Annie Kucklick of @eoionline.bsky.social: childcare in Cowlitz Co. has increased 263% in costs since 2001, while wages have only gone up 80%. These same families have to pay higher taxes than the wealthiest corporations, and are hit hardest by MAGA cuts to health care and food.

As @rianwatt.bsky.social & I wrote in this piece, there are tangible solutions #WaLeg can enact this session to end cyclical revenue shortfalls, fix our tax code & create a more affordable WA. They must reject harmful budget cuts & ensure corporations & the ultra-wealthy pay their share in taxes.

One week on @theurbanist.org: -Two original Sound Transit stories -Two fully reported Seattle budget stories -Dispatches from both Clyde Hill & Kirkland -One story about Katie Wilson's transition team And a book review! I know I'm biased, but I really think we punch above our weight.

I'm so excited for The Urbanist to roll into 2026 at full strength, covering new admins at the city and county and major stories elsewhere, including at Sound Transit. I hope you'll consider joining us at our holiday party to support that work. It's also fun! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-urbani...

Excited to see this team get to work: www.seattle.gov/documents/De...

when will Seattle's Democrat Council President cease her unrelenting war on Christians

Supporter’s Shield but for baseball is a great idea. If you expand to 32 teams you can also do a balanced 186-game schedule where each team plays every other team three games home and three away each year. You can do an October tournament with the top four for fun.

This baseball game has officially outlasted the NWSL match next door that started 2 1/2 hours after it

peace be with Adam Wainwright as he tries to get his coworker to make a different point in the meeting

It's not an exaggeration to say that @typewriteralley.bsky.social is the only reporter in the region who could write this story in quite this way. Please consider donating to @theurbanist.org to help support our work. theurbanist.org/donate www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/10/h...

I was on @kuow.org's Week in Review this afternoon. A good time! www.kuow.org/stories/week...

Five years ago, for the 10th World Homelessness Day, I wrote this brief call to action. Five years gone and little progress. But I stand by each word: community.solutions/homelessness...

If Bruce Harrell's case for re-election is his management experience, what should we make of two separate instances in the last week of city decisions made under his watch being immediately reversed after huge community blowback?

Extraordinarily thoughtful and nuanced from one of Seattle’s best, Marcus Harrison Greene: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2025/...

It is 8 am on Saturday at Madison/12th/Union and … no work crews in sight 😊 What a beautiful sight, thanks to so many transportation advocates!

Harrell needs to pick up any anti-fascist/anti-authoritarian book, quickly. Radical hope, love, resistance, and a bold social program are the only hope we have to combat fascism. Telling people to not hope is dangerous.

I take no credit here and will transfer my kudos to @csgreenways.bsky.social volunteers who have been piling on the pressure

Incredible mobilization by so many to make this happen, including @typewriteralley.bsky.social and @alexis4seattle.bsky.social and @gordonofseattle.bsky.social and many others.

Spotted at the 150 stop: Week Without Driving champion Jorge Barón!

I live near this stop. It is the way I plan to get to downtown or Seattle Center. I was not asked before the lane was deleted. Process for me but not for thee.

At a bare minimum we should require disclosure of any use of ChatGPT for official business. Excellent reporting from @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social .

The main thing they’re using DHS for is a continual, indefinite effort to expand the population of those who they can effectively treat as beyond legal rights and protections.

Friday afternoon, @thestranger.com let me make an obvious but important point: If progressives don't use their time in power to clear away structural barriers to progress, they'll be at risk of getting swept out again in four years: www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

The broken Seattle Process™️ prevents elected officials from delivering for constituents, and helps fuel cynicism in local government.

Last night was a huge win for Seattle's progressive values. The real test, though, will be delivering once in office. If the folks we elect in November can't actually deliver policy wins for everyday people once in office, they'll be subject to the same homeostatic, anti-incumbent forces in 2029.

it’s me, i’m Random People

The mood is jubilant at Katie Wilson's primary election night party. Wilson is leading Harrell 46.2% to 44.8% in early results.

local man supports two big winners @alexis4seattle.bsky.social and Dionne Foster

Seattle: Tonight would be a good time to fill out your ballot to, amongst other important things, vote YES to renew the King County Parks Levy that funds parks & trails county wide. The east side has a lot of anti-tax voters these days, so it's not a sure thing. Vote by Aug 5th & tell your friends!

Only 18.8% of Seattle voters have returned their ballot so far for tomorrow's primary. But you've still got plenty of time to get in that ballot and @cascadepbsnewsroom.bsky.social has lots of Seattle/King County elections coverage to help you get up to speed! www.cascadepbs.org/tag/election...

Post Options, the mail/copy store across the street from my house, partially burned in a fire two days ago. If you’ve been there, you know that it is owned and operated by the sweetest couple imaginable. I hope you’ll consider donating to help them recover. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

Post Options, the mail/copy store across the street from my house, partially burned in a fire two days ago. If you’ve been there, you know that it is owned and operated by the sweetest couple imaginable. I hope you’ll consider donating to help them recover. www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

I’m lucky I have a lot of smart and caring fellow non-profit EDs to collaborate with!

Great story from @typewriteralley.bsky.social that comes from thoughtful direct observation for years. A worrying trend in city politics.

The @theurbanist.org Elections Committee (which I led until 2024, but had no involvement in this year) puts a huge amount of work into these endorsements — interviews, questionnaires, thoughtful conversation. I am excited to read these writeups!

Society really lost it's shit when we moved away from containing the internet to one room in the house.

Reposting for the Monday crowd my case for @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social in @thestranger.com last Friday. We need leadership, and we have the chance for it.

banger of a quote

“You’ve already felt Wilson’s impact if you or your kid have zipped around the city with a subsidized Orca card… If you’ve had your move-in or late fees capped for your rental apartment, you’ve also benefited from her work.” @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

Serious times demand serious leadership. www.thestranger.com/guest-editor...

"...what’s standing between us and nurturing the communities we all hunger for isn’t exactly a specialized skillset ... [let's] begin with the simplest question: what are the lightest structures needed to enable our relationships?" Elise Granata's GROUP HUG: grouphug.substack.com/p/more-struc...

"Working families are taxed at a rate up to six times higher than the wealthiest in our state." Read more from our ED @rianwatt.bsky.social and leaders at @investwanow.bsky.social, @balanceourtaxcode.bsky.social & @investwanow.bsky.social: washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/30/c... #TaxTheRich

I'm up in the @washingtonstatestandard.com today with @thescalzone.bsky.social, Eli Taylor Goss, and Treasure Mackley: washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/06/30/c...

Conversations around housing affordability could be better at distinguishing btwn lowering the cost of producing homes (eg per-unit development costs) and lowering consumption costs to households (mostly through subsidies). Complex financing schemes may do the latter but usually not the former.

Smart, sensible, progressive proposal out of @alexis4seattle.bsky.social’s office. * 76% of businesses now paying tax would pay no tax; * 90% would see their tax bill go down * $90 million in new progressive revenue

I am excited about what a @wilsonkatieb.bsky.social win would mean for our city.

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

Not that it will make a difference but I want to be clear that we should absolutely not bomb Iran.