A $175 million deficit built into the budget these same council members approved last year. As I reported at the time, that ...
The proposal makes real cuts to close a $175 million gap—and reflects the conflict between campaign ambitions and a ...
By Josh Feit Councilmember Dionne Foster > Mayor Katie Wilson You couldn’t have a clearer juxtaposition. Mayor Wilson tried ...
I will be out of town until next Thursday, so look for my stories on the mayor’s gun violence reduction strategy, Dan Strauss ...
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is a toxic workplace for women, according to a damning internal report commissioned by SPD that was first reported by KUOW last week. One woman who’s been an SPD ...
PubliCola sat down this week with Mayor Katie Wilson to talk about how her agenda is going at six months in, what she’s learned from the setbacks and conflicts she’s encountered (like early, ...
PubliCola has exclusively confirmed that two of the top-level staff hired by new Police Chief Shon Barnes, Deputy Chief Andre Sayles and Assistant Chief Nicole Powell, received lateral hiring bonuses ...
According to internal emails PubliCola obtained through a records request, the Seattle Police Department knew while he was still an officer in training that Kevin Dave–the officer who killed ...
A process that started with a year-long delay ended in a cascade of votes on more than 100 recently introduces amendments last week, as the City Council adopted “Phase 1” of its 10-year update to the ...
For more than a year, records have been trickling into my inbox documenting the astronomical amounts former mayor Bruce Harrell spent to travel in luxury (along with his wife Joanne) while ...