Why doesn't the larger city (Bellevue) simply eat the tax shelter community?

smallest scale would be just developing a group of people who share a collection of street party materials like canopies and fire pits and whatever else would make an on-street Halloween party enjoyable. tbh someone plz put this in one of those empty micro storefronts on California near Admiral?

I turned this on, and I think Ryan is underselling how contentious this is.

Are you frustrated that lights on the I90 trail have been out for a year? Come to Cafe Weekend this Saturday at 10am to get involved in fixing the lights!

If anyone on bsky would like to work on fixing this, some folks are going to meet Saturday at 10am at Cafe Weekend to talk and then put up posters. If you can't make it but want to be involved lmk

One day after election day, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes has fired Brian Maxey, SPD's COO, and chief counsel Becca Boatright. Per inside sources, Harrell told Barnes to wait until today. These are two very longtime civilian employees who've been shut out by Barnes, who brought in his own team.

Wow, what interesting timing

They should have gone with federal way city center to really confuse visitors heading downtown from the airport

Idk exactly how to articulate this, but so much of the Seattle Times coverage of Seattle is "suburban gaze". www.seattletimes.com/business/bar...

How do we get this man to go the fuck away

My dude, now's not the time for hope

Bruce Harrell party vs the CMs and City attorney party

As Mayor, Harrell Paid for Luxury Upgrades on City Trips, Including a $12,000 Flight and a $1,000-a-Night Hotel Now he wants voters to believe he represents the working class—and that his opponent, renter Katie Wilson, is an out-of touch-elite. publicola.com/2025/11/04/h...

Every winter in Seattle I wonder why our business leaders work so hard to kill any option to sit outside

The lights are still out, going on more than a year, at Judkins Park. This trail is heavily used by locals for recreation as well as a major connection in our regional transportation bike network.

You can always tell electeds that ran on (generously) good faith "community input" because they get elected by the NIMBYs and then they can't find their footing because now the NIMBYs are yelling at them.

An urban planner that loves new urbanism but opposes a new urbanism project in their town is like lab grown NIMBYism

"They're going to have to park somewhere," is something that a Federal Way councilmember just said in a public meeting about a downtown street being closed for pedestrian events, thirty three days before Federal Way's light rail station (steps away!) opens to the public.

Actually listening to a Federal Way's Community Development Director admit in a public meeting that the city once shook down a developer to get them to pay for 70% of the cost of a traffic signal in order to get their project advanced through a development moratorium. This is seen as normal.

The leaves on Rainier Ave are making a pretty convincing argument that the center turn lanes don't get much use -- lots of excess road space that could be protected bike infrastructure.

Can I add "experts are surprised about the fact that Seattleites are concerned about traffic violence after the deadliest year on city roads since 2006" to the list of prime examples of motonormativity?

Is this a sign that Bruce's campaign is having a hard time creating a call list of undecided voters?

"It is more important that my house get good sunlight than that 70+ families get to have a home" is an amazing take.

Looks very festive this November 3rd

This driver dangerously passed me because I filtered at Jackson and 4th and then almost hit me because they tried to pass me on the right at King and 1st

I'm kinda glad that FIFI removed the ability to report illegally parked drivers because now I collect photos to send to politicians instead.

Bruce's Bus Stop everyone

The president thinks federal goons haven’t been violent *enough* with the American people. The president seems to hope that his thugs will kill someone soon.

0 times, god knows this has happened 0 times.

In light of a race for County Executive that looks to be going down to the wire, I'm compelled to circulate THE Claudia Balducci video. The Bellevue City Council meeting in 2010 where CB made it clear she doesn't ever shirk away from a fight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuB5...

Drop your ballot in a dropbox TODAY and remind everyone in your life to do the same. Let’s win this! #thisisyourcity

Wild how many people can't see parking requirements for what it is: a scheme for big auto to embed costs and boost profits. Building dense housing without parking is a threat to their business model so they make it illegal to live without cars. Pretending otherwise just hurts everyone.

I would love for someone at the Seattle Times to explain why they couldn't just spin off a non-profit that accepts these vouchers and then pays the Seattle Times for-profit arm for distribution/IT/etc. Could literally be a win-win for independent journalism and the Times getting better content.

I appreciate the author of this piece for clearly making the case that Katie Wilson's previous work is policy experience that will transfer to her time as Mayor.

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

Space Needle thinking isn't about doing the basics well apparently.

IMO "Whatever that is" with ominous musing playing is the calling card for the post 00's reactionary politics. You can sum up every single right wing political argument right now with this. "LGBTQIA rights? whatever that is." "15 minute cities? whatever that is."

If I were Bruce Harrell I wouldn't have recorded my TV advertisement on the festival street in Columbia City that I let NIMBYs delay for nearly my entire mayoralship.

As I mentioned during our DC show the other night, years – decades! – of mayors tacitly tolerating cops and other city employees defacing their plates has made this much more difficult to deal with now.

I'm going to need the moderate pollsters, campaign consultants, and Seattle Times columnists to explain why AMR is coasting to reelection if Seattle voters are just angry at incumbents.

"There is an adage that anyone who is young and conservative does not have a heart, while a person who is old and liberal does not have a brain." Horsey accidentally getting something right and then immediately dismissing it as absurd wasn't on my bingo card

"If you're watching this, fix your driving, slow down, you're not special... and you're not doing enough. Do better keep your neighbors alive." bikeportland.org/2025/10/30/c...

I care about other issues too, but on transportation policy, all I want from a mayor is a person that is capable of seeing that the best streets in the city have the least cars and actually thinking about what that means.

New developments should integrate sustainable practices, such as water capture buckets and on site gas turbines to minimize their environmental impact

A budget amendment from Alexis Mercedes Rinck asks the Office of Sustainability and the Environment to study the replacement of on-street parking spaces with trees.

Love to get passed dangerously by a driver in an uncontrolled intersection only to have the driver slow to 5 mph because of traffic coming the other way.

She literally volunteered the fact that she received some help from her parents, that is why we are all talking about it. It wasn't an oppo drop

I address the first scandal of my political life—Momgate.

In every ethics training I've taken the training has highlighted that while the law draws a line in a certain place, it's generally advisable to avoid even the appearance of ethical issues.

"YoU'rE pAyInG BiLlIoNs Of DoLlArS aNd DeStRoYiNg NeIgHbOrHoOdS fOr VeRy FeW nEw RiDeRs"