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Erica C. Barnett
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I'm reading over emails to the Seattle mayor and council members demanding that they sweep huge groups of unsheltered people, often because of an incident (e.g. yelling profanities) involving one
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I absolutely believe that many @cityofseattle departments and the mayor's office are overburdened by records requests, as they have repeatedly claimed. I have filed many times more requests during the
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Sigh. This guest piece by a "tech entrepreneur" in @UrbanistOrg takes at face value the campaigns' "unlikely bedfellows" narrative, misrepresents how the mandatory minimum spend would work...https://www.theurbanist.o
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The overwhelming amount of "Karens gone wild"-type content about racist white women, in the absence of any equivalent for white men, suggests to the uninitiated that white men aren't equally
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Tune in now to hear the Seattle council's frustration with the mayor's office explaining what "non-congregate" shelter means, when what they asked was whether the mayor's office will continue resisting
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I want to highlight one grievance here for which the mayor is asking the council to investigate @cmkshama: She allegedly organized a march to the mayor's house.https://twitter.com/KromanDavid/status/1278002317711687682 "Marching to
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Bon Appetit's Grilling Issue (the pre-purge/retroactive racism-exists wakeup edition): OBSERVATIONS Before we get to the grilling (featuring a whole lotta dudes and one cutie patootie blondie whose husband made her
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Did you know that the current manager of the @seattlepd parking enforcement division is running for state attorney general as a Republican? A THREAD Brett Rogers, whose base salary at
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Now police chief Carmen Best is reciting a litany of the worst things that have ever happened in encampments (all the way back to 2017), none of which has direct
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Found the city of Seattle's shower trailer! Tucked away behind King Street Station, in a spot not visible from any street, and still fenced off yesterday despite an announced Friday
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Things are moving fast and a lot is happening, so you may have missed this in my reports on homelessness and COVID: While LA is snapping up 15,000 hotel rooms
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