Seattle City Light (SCL) has announced that it is launching a service that will install public electric vehicle chargers at curbside locations throughout the city. Acceptable locations include: Single-family homes, including properties with detached single houses, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, and accessory dwelling units. These requests must be for properties …
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Seattle Police Chief search committee
Here is a list (with bios) of the people on the search committee evaluating potential candidates for the new Chief of Police in Seattle. The search committee will submit to the Mayor up to five candidates for the position. Those candidates will then complete a written examination, and the Mayor …
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The latest weekly influenza report from the Washington State Department of Health concludes that flu season is finally starting to fade. It got a very late start this year, coinciding with the lifting of COVID restrictions, and plateaued in late May — but cases have been rapidly decreasing over the …
Continue readingRegional Homeless Authority 5-year plan components
The King County Regional Homeless Authority has begun work on its required five-year plan. It has broken up the plan into seven components, and is creating opportunities for the community to engage and provide input and feedback. The seven components are: Measurable actions, outcomes and goals; Sub-regional planning activities; Procurement …
Continue readingState Attorney General’s Model Use of Force Policy for Law Enforcement Agencies
Today the Washington State Attorney General published a model “use of force” policy for agencies to use to guide them in adopting their own policies. The model policy, at least in part, attempts to provide guidance on how to meet the recent changes to state law related to officers’ use …
Continue readingCity of Seattle Comprehensive Plan EIS planning
The City of Seattle is beginning to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for changes it might propose to the city’s Comprehensive Plan in 2024. It has published an EIS Scoping Fact Sheet to explain the options it will be considering. The fact sheet lays out five alternatives: “No Action”: …
Continue readingReport on White House mismanagement of coronavirus pandemic
Lost in last week’s January 6th hearings and the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade was a report published by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic that details the role of Dr. Scott Atlas in rewriting the federal government’s coronavirus strategy — arguably spreading the virus more broadly …
Continue readingU.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a ruling finding that there is no constitutionally-protected right to an abortion, overturning the fifty-year-old Roe vs. Wade and thirty-year-old Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decisions that had established that right. The majority opinion follows closely the leaked Alito draft, but this final …
Continue readingElephant Car Wash landmark nomination
The old neon Elephant Car Wash sign has been proposed for landmark status. Amazon came into possession of it when it bought the land underneath it in 2020. The sign, which was first installed at the property in 1956, has been removed from the site and is undergoing restoration. Amazon, …
Continue readingState appeals court whittles down COVID-era eviction bans
This morning a state Court of Appeals panel updated an earlier ruling; it largely affirmed a lower court ruling that upheld the City of Seattle’s eviction moratorium and required payment plans but found that the city’s ban on landlords collecting interest on unpaid rent was pre-empted by state law. The …
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