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Hello all, and thank you for bearing with me while I move Notes from an Emerald City over to Revue, a different newsletter platform. If you’re subscrib…

Apr 10

Also a free bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment, the CM Sawant recall goes forward, and a follow-up o…

Apr 6

Also two roads forward for participatory budgeting suggested by the Mayor's office, the progress of the Mayor's Equitable Taskforce, a state bill passe…

Apr 1

At the King County level, the Washington state level, and nationally

Mar 30

Happy Spring! Let’s get right to it. If you want to catch up with this week’s Council Briefing, you can take a look at the Twitter thread: This morning…

Mar 24

Also Seattle mayoral election news.

Mar 19

Bring Business Home act passed in the Seattle Council meeting; Senator Joe Nguyen considers running for King County Executive.

Mar 16

HSD moves forward in awarding the $12m to scale up public safety capacity; SPD in "staffing crisis"; Nikkita Oliver announces SCC run; news about parti…

Mar 10

See the PBP timeline and learn more details about the process; election news; the CPC votes on recs for SPOG contract negotiation; state leg news; WA's…

Feb 27

Also the Black Brilliance Project's final presentation on Friday

Feb 23

There are lot of state legislature updates to talk about today because the cut-off for bills to be voted out of committee was this past Monday, Februar…

Feb 18

SB5134 could also use your support; the less lethal weapons draft bill has been sent to the DoJ for review; the Black Brilliance Project separates from…

Feb 11

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