Someone told me “the only thing that matters is winning.” I disagree. If you’re focused on winning at all costs, you can quickly lose your way. Better to run with integrity, and let the chips fall where they may. There’s always another race and more than one way to make a difference.

Thank you! Great to meet and chat!

Only a small percentage of Seattle residents (around 5-10%) typically use them.

So encourage your Seattle friends and family and neighbors to use theirs too!

It’s a great way to increase awareness and participation in the program and our democracy.

I thought SPD wasn’t reading PubliCola?

Deliberations and decision-making in public.

It’s probably not practical to have a Mayor or Governor be subject to the same rules around OPMA as the legislative bodies, but I find it interesting that we have fairly strict rules and expectations for legislative bodies but very little for executives around hearing public comments or …

The current Mayor was previously a Councilmember and thus heard his fair share of public comments over the years, but I wonder how it does or doesn’t change behavior and decision-making to hear or not be required to hear public comments as Mayor.

Very few people are talking about the rapid drop in housing permits and what it means.

And lots of every day voters seem to assume that once a property is upzoned for more density it will quickly be redeveloped, when that is far from reality in most cases.

the fundamentals of development right now are *terrible*

tarriffs, high interest rates, labor pool being kidnapped.

permits in seattle at lowest level in terms of percentage or even number since the '08 recession. and mayor's comp plan won't fix

it's not good, folks.

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just as a reminder - seattle's permitting has fallen off a cliff

the number of homes permitted in june of this year is the lowest level in a decade - lower than at any point during covid.

this is not good news, folks.

I also really like Ry Armstrong and his vision for our City. I appreciate him running and know that he has a bright future, but I am excited to vote Katie Wilson!

Also, we should be angry at the failures of our City and society, and there’s nothing radical about trying to meet the basic needs of our neighbors.

And knows her policy and is a strong communicator.

She’s providing a hopeful message for our City and I don’t think the fear-tactic of trying to paint her as some angry radical will work if people get a chance to meet her and know her.

That’s the worst part about door-knocking! Try to knock loud enough so people can hear you but not so loud to wake sleeping babies (or sleeping anyone really, but especially kiddos).