Graham Street station is a win for south Seattle and equitable transit in our city. Thank you to the community coalition that organized for this station over many years and to King County Executive Zahilay and my other colleagues on the Sound Transit board who voted to support making it a reality.

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

It's interesting that budget chair Strauss doesn't think providing food is a "charter responsibility." I wonder how recently he's read the charter. Politicians love to say "public safety is our number 1 charter responsibility," but actually the charter lists "health" first, followed by "safety."

Amy Sundberg@amysundberg.bsky.social · 2w ago

As promised, here's my latest piece on Seattle's budget season. I discuss councilmember reactions to the budget as well as details of the SPD budget and the trade-off of affordable housing dollars Wilson made in her proposal.

One of Mayor Wilson's best hires is Aly Pennucci, who is quietly but crucially doing an absolutely amazing job driving a bulldozer through years of calcified budget and process morass. The mayor is down in the weeds on this as well and they are an excellent team.

Ryan Packer@typewriteralley.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This was surprising to me to learn, that currently applicants need 30 plus permits from eight different departments to build housing in the city." -Seattle Budget Director Aly Pennucci just now

Seattle is starting to see results from recently elected Mayor Katie Wilson’s push for a more responsive city government Workin… https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2026/09/seattle-is-starting-to-see-results-from-recently-elected-mayor-katie-wilsons-push-for-a-more-responsive-city-government.html

Seattle is starting to see results from recently elected Mayor Katie Wilson’s push for a more responsive city government

Working with progressive Council allies, the Emerald City's newest chief executive has begun delivering changes residents can see and feel, but her first budget proposal raises harder questions about sustaining public services and meeting the city’s needs.

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Over the past months, I've heard from so many young people across our city. What they say they need is simple: safe places to be and a future they can count on.

Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.

I was delighted to host Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor, two brilliant thinkers who have inspired so many, at Town Hall last night to discuss their new book, “End Times Fascism.”

For example, the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social article on the Mayor Wilson budget says that Bruce Harrell first proposed using jumpstart to fund homeless services. That’s not true. Harrell used Jumpstart to generally close his $230 mill deficit (which gets no mention in the article…)

Julia Grant Reed@juliareedwa.bsky.social · 3w ago

Once again just has the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social fired all of their fact checkers and editors and if @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and I are gonna do the job can we get a stipend?

Once again just has the @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social fired all of their fact checkers and editors and if @ericacbarnett.bsky.social @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and I are gonna do the job can we get a stipend?

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just reading up on the city budget (been on vacation). There are a number of strange errors and misconstruals in the Seattle Times' coverage, including a reference ot "Seattle's income tax" (we don't have one) and spending outpacing revenue in a worsening economy (that's not what caused the deficit)

We banned rental junk fees! Starting July 1st, 2027, the price you see is the price you pay — no pet rent, no admin fees, no lease renewal fees. Step by step, we’re building an affordable Seattle. Thanks to City Attorney Evans and Councilmember Foster, and to the Stay Housed, Stay Healthy Coalition!

Listening sessions will take place between September 26th and September 30th in south, central, and north Seattle. Space is limited, so please register now: www.sngi.org/listen

Seattle Neighborhood Group - Building Safer Communities

Join Seattle Neighborhood Group in fostering crime-free communities through integrity, inclusiveness, and collaboration. Help us make a difference!

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The Right talks a lot about fiscal responsibility and efficiency, but for decades, that’s been code for something else: cutting essential programs and services.

Seattle will not accept gun violence as inevitable, and neither will I. This weekend, I spent time with Cathie Wilmore from “Rainier Beach: A Beautiful, Safe Place for Youth,” to hear about the important violence intervention and community building work she has been doing for decades.

Thanks for asking, KUOW! Yes, we are winning for renters: from banning pet rent and other rental junk fees, to adding density throughout our City, to SEPA reform, to my Executive Order streamlined permitting, our renter majority city is seeing real improvements to affordability…

Congratulations to UNITE HERE Local 8 members and Hilton Hotels on reaching an agreement to end the Embassy Suites strike and return to work!

Also, Seattle's homicide rate is minuscule. Baltimore's miraculous turnaround brought its homicide rate down to about 23 per 100,000 residents. The national average is around 6.9. In 2024, Seattle's was 2.6 and the trajectory has been downward.

Obviously, crime rates are down relative to the pandemic for reasons that apply in cities everywhere; spikes and valleys aren't caused by mayors. But if you think they are (because you're dumb), then isn't it odd that only Katie Wilson gets this kind of "shut the fuck up" reaction?

Maritza Rivera Overstates Gun Violence, Pushes Mayor to Pre-Commit to Handpicked "Focused Deterrence" Contractor Rivera said there were 541 homicides in Seattle in 2024. There were 21.

Maritza Rivera Overstates Gun Violence, Pushes Mayor to Pre-Commit to Handpicked "Focused Deterrence" Contractor - PubliCola

By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmember Maritza Rivera misrepresented the number of fatal shootings in Seattle by an order of…

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Today, Seattle's kindergartners took their very first steps into Seattle Public Schools, joining their fellow scholars for a brand new year! This year, every single one of them - from kindergarten through 12th grade - starts the year with something new: free breakfast and lunch for each student.

The Seattle Times' crusade against Katie Wilson, and its stenography for council members who oppose everything she says or does before she says or does it, is getting out of hand.

"I'll say that fatal shootings in 2012 were 211, and in 2024 there were 541. And post-pandemic, it increased exponentially," Rivera said. None of these things are true. There were 26 fatal shootings in 2012 and 55 in 2024.

I have seen other press report this as "mayor delayed press conference" and can only conclude that they literally did not read the documetns and put together a timeline before posting and taking off for the weekend

If you've been paying attention to the news recently, you may be wondering: what's going on in City Hall? What you might not have heard is that we are doing the work and getting real results for Seattle residents.

Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for…

Melinda Jacobson and Dale Osterud’s non-recall of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was a media stunt that the mass media fell for

Two disgruntled constituents had no legally sufficient grounds to start a recall of the Emerald City's chief executive, but Seattle newsrooms rewarded their ploy for publicity with weeks of credulous coverage anyway.

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Not anymore 🚌💪

🔥 David Hell 🔥@davidl206.city · 2mo ago

Mayor Wilson managed, in the first year of her term, to do something that has eluded 30 years of previous mayors. I’m 50. The eastbound 8 has been delayed along Denny during rush hour during my entire adult life. Not anymore.

Holy shit we’re flying like a bat out of hell. #Acceler8

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m doing something I almost never do. Riding the 8 eastbound at rush hour.

I hope that one day we'll look back on the hysterical derangement with which the mainstream press targeted a young female mayor and feel deep embarrassment mynorthwest.com/mynorthwest-...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's 'impromptu boogie' with Seattle rapper draws public safety criticism - MyNorthwest.com

You may have seen the video on Instagram, originally posted by Seattle rapper Y2K. Wilson stands next to him at a sports field and bobs to his anthemic track "SEA."

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Saka & Rivera bout to lose by double digits. Juarez not even elected. Hollingsworth will have to face the 2nd most progressive electorate in the city after signing off on everything Sara Nelson dreamt up & running council like a Republican from Broadmoor. These are dead enders flinging poo. Ignore.