Top Ten Articles on Rondezvous
And a Quick Thank You!
I have really appreciated the wonderful feedback you’ve shared on the newsletter. We have 130,000 views in a relatively short time; not bad for a little local publication!
Also, our recent post on Bruce Harrell tossing in the towel when it comes to the housing crisis, had tremendous traction on Publicola, where we cross-posted it. It has had well over 20,000 readers, most of them not on my own platform.
I think a 20 year plan to fail at the basics is pretty embarrassing, and so apparently did a lot of readers! In fact, I even received a little shoutout from more moderate Vox co-founder, Matthew Yglesias, on Substack. If you care about the housing crisis, and haven’t read it or shared it, please give it a look.
And, in case you missed any, here are our top ten posts:
Leaders of Election SuperPAC Want the New Seattle City Council to Know Who is Boss (big business!) The people who bought the election assert their power.
Sara Nelson says she wants good governance. I don’t think that means what she thinks that means.
A Tale of Two Councils: The City Council heard a plea for refugees, cut off discussion early, faced a protest for it, and arrested the protestors. A few blocks away, the progressive, smart, compassionate, functional King County Council ran laps around them.
Conservative Ballot Measure Aims to Cut a Billion Dollars from Schools: a hedge fund guy wants to cut our State’s only progressive tax, a windfall tax on extreme capital gains.
Do Conservative Seattle Politicians Exist? Commentators pretend they don’t. But we have a City Attorney working with a famous January 6th insurrectionist to recruit people to the MAGA party and we have a very conservative Democrat in charge of the city council.
Kill Bills: The State Senate kills three extremely important bills. They would have drastically increased voter participation in elections, massively expanded housing supply and better utilized our transit while doing so, and provided stabilized rent without significantly harming housing supply. All were high benefit and low cost.
Social Housing Part I: The Social Housing Funding Plan (for Seattle) is Out. The what and why of Seattle’s Social Housing Initiative
Social Housing Part II: The Real Reason the Seattle Metro Chamber opposes workforce housing. Hint, it’s not any of the reasons they say in public.
Bruce Harrell Tosses in the Towel on Housing: A 20 year plan to make housing costs higher, and homelessness worse.
Uber and other delivery companies are trying to repeal the minimum wage for delivery workers. Worth noting that since publishing this article, it’s become apparent that the Seattle City Council appears to be actually considering this.
Many thanks for all your support!
(I took a vacation and it was awesome! That’s all.)