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Two Seattle Nice Interviews This Week: Mayor Katie Wilson and Budget Director Aly Pennucci, and Councilmember Dionne Foster

Seattle Nice has two interviews for you this week! On Friday’s show, we sat down with Mayor Katie Wilson and her budget ...
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SPD Overpaid Officers By $13 Million. Now the City Wants It Back.

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of ...
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On Wilson’s Budget, the Council Parts Ways With Reality

Last week, I described Mayor Katie Wilson’s first budget as “small-c conservative,” because it eschews most of the budget tricks of recent years and achieves balance through 2030 not by raising taxes, ...
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Council Learns What “One-Time Funding” Means; Podcaster’s Advocacy for Anti-Trans Campaign Didn’t Violate Election Law

City council members who funded an unsustainable budget last year by using one-time dollars to fund tens of millions ...
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KCRHA Consultant Finds the “Missing” $8 Million; Strauss’ RV Ban Moves Forward (But Won’t Ban Sprinters, to Saka’s Dismay)

Earlier this month, the King County Regional H Authority dropped a bombshell: That “missing” $8 million the financially ...
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Greater Seattle: Inclusionary Zoning, Part 2; Amazon as a Percentage of the Budget; Permitted, but Struggling

So says the study released this summer by an economist at UC Irvine about inclusionary zoning (IZ), a policy that requires builders to couple any market-rate housing ...
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Seattle Cop Used Chinese AI Smart Glasses to Film Inside SPD Facilities, Creating Video for Company

By Erica C. Barnett A Seattle Police Department officer, Adam Sun, is on administrative leave after using a pair ...