|
- PubliCola
This Week on PubliCola: June 21, 2025 It was a packed week of news and PubliCola exclusives, including the latest from City Hall, King County, and the regional homelessness authority
- New Stalking Allegations Against King County Assessor, County Executive . . .
Shortly after Wilson emailed PubliCola, Lee reached out to say that he was not authorized to speak for her, then sent us a statement through her attorney “This is a personal matter that is being resolved
- Eleven People Have Died at this South King County Jail in the Last Two . . .
PubliCola reached out to the mayors and city managers of the six cities that own SCORE regarding the jail’s high rate of death in custody and poor medical care
- CARE Crisis Response Team Moves into South Seattle As Council Complains . . .
Support PubliCola Barden noted that the CARE team has just 24 members, spread across the city, which means that in Moore’s council district, there probably won’t be more than two to four people available to respond to calls at any time
- Municipal Court Judge Pooja Vaddadi Files Bar Complaint Against City . . .
“It was a tough year,” Vaddadi told PubliCola on Thursday “There’s this scathing piece of writing that’s published [and repeated] in the media, to my colleagues and the people I respect, and I know it’s full of lies
- Turning Park-and-Rides Into Housing - PubliCola
Props to King County Metro for turning those empty stalls into an opportunity for fulfilling the potential of transit infrastructure as a prompt to build affordable housing Transit policy is land use policy And King County needs more land use policy like this that authorizes affordable housing Josh@PubliCola com
- Pro-LGBTQ Protesters Stuck Outside Barricades As Far-Right “Rattle In . . .
Through an SPD spokesperson, Barnes told PubliCola it’s “unrealistic to expect that any individual in the police department can be available around the clock for unexpected emergencies ” Being the Chief of Police in a bustling city like Seattle is truly a 24 7 responsibility
- Cathy Moore Directs $1 Million for Survivor Services to The More We . . .
Many of the organizational leaders who spoke to PubliCola said they felt the city had not only wasted their time but violated their trust The longtime CSE leader called the outcome “really sad, because at the end of the day, the city is breaking the trust of the community …
|
|
|