Over the weekend, Mayor Bruce Harrell’s campaign sent a text to Seattle voters overblowing a few lines in a KUOW post to frame his progressive challenger Katie Wilson as some kind of overgrown trust-fund kid cosplaying poor while mooching off her parent’s New York money. This morning, Wilson’s campaign clapped back, calling Harrell out of touch for mocking how families help each other scrape by in an expensive city. Early last week, KUOW posted a profile  of Wilson titled “K

Young people: This is fucking serious. The 2025 election could be a huge shift in the balance of power at City Hall — voters could kick out our MAGA Republican City Attorney, banish the most incompetent council president in the City’s history, and elect Seattle’s first progressive Mayor in over a decade. All the challengers taking up the left lane beat the centrist incumbents in the primary, but they only win the whole thing if you show up by Nov. 4 at 8pm. And so far, a litt

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced his negotiation team and the Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) came to a tentative agreement over a collective bargaining contract covering salaries and working conditions from 2024 to 2027 . During a press conference Wednesday morning, Harrell, Chief of Police Shon Barnes, and Chief of CARE Amy Barden touted the contract as a historic milestone, but on closer inspection, their enthusiasm reads as premature, self-indulgent election-year spin.