Josh is hyped about the latest stats on Lime scooter and electric bike rentals in Seattle, which show more people are using micromobility options than ever before, even when you discount the spike in ...

By Erica C. Barnett Monday, September 28 On Wilson’s Budget, the Council Parts Ways With Reality The council has ...

Seattle Nice has two interviews for you this week! On Friday’s show, we sat down with Mayor Katie Wilson and her budget ...

By Erica C. Barnett The Seattle Police Department overpaid police officers, management, and civilian staff a total of ...

City council members who funded an unsustainable budget last year by using one-time dollars to fund tens of millions ...

Earlier this month, the King County Regional H Authority dropped a bombshell: That “missing” $8 million the financially ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed 2027 budget (announced earlier this week, while I was out of town) would accomplish something that her predecessor, Bruce Harrell, never really attempted: It would close ...

You couldn’t have a clearer juxtaposition. Mayor Wilson tried to cut a deal between housing developers and the affordable-housing left to accelerate housing production. And Councilmember Dionne Foster ...

City Councilmember Dionne Foster has introduced a bill that will give developers a break on mandatory housing affordability fees for two years, with the goal of spurring projects forward at a time ...