David Kroman
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City Hall reporter for @SeattleTimes | Send tips to: dkroman @seattletimes .com | Formerly @Crosscut | Sorry for the baseball tweets.
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@RottenInDenmark
Picture 1: “looking good, my man!”
Picture 2: “hey is everything okay at home?”
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Yikes
Years after they fought in Afghanistan, US troops watch as their children deploy to the same war
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To everyone who moved to Seattle over the summer: Welcome
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NEW STORY: Kshama Sawant is now likely to win re-election over Egan Orion, creating what one consultant called the "most progressive council in many years."
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@NateSilver538
Why stop there? Cancel the playoffs, give the trophy to the team with the most regular season wins
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I suck at geography, but kinda the whole thing with this Ukraine drama is that it borders Russia!
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Imagine being a big Twin Peaks fan and visiting North Bend and then you run into a zebra in the woods
A resident’s trail camera captured the missing zebra on video at 11:56 a.m. Monday near North Bend
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New: The King County Labor Council has given the Seattle Police Officers Guild an ultimatum: admit to and address racism in Seattle PD or members will vote to remove them.
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WOOOOW. Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes says city will withdraw consent decree motion:
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The implications of the WA Supreme Court's "Blake" decision — striking down criminalization of drug possession — are absolutely dizzying. As one attorney told me, "we’re going to be saying before Blake and after Blake.”
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Congratulations to Pete Buttigieg, who gets two news cycle of winning Iowa without any real evidence he actually has
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There's no such thing as being "good" at driving in snow and ice in Seattle, no matter what mid-westerners will tell you
One car tried to drive my hill and Queen Anne and hit all these parked cars who clue down the hill… insane. DON’T DRIVE.
#seattle
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A wild legal thing happening: DOJ just asked for a restraining order to halt Chief Best's directive banning officers from using pepper spray, tear gas, etc. — which she did because the council banned them. Basically, DOJ wants her to ignore the ordinance.
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Here’s the King County Water Taxi acting as offensive lineman for Seattle’s waterfront yesterday against a wayward barge
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Good morning everyone. I have a bit of news about myself: I’m leaving Crosscut later this month to take a job covering transportation with The Seattle Times. I start Nov. 29. I’m feeling a lot of things, so indulge me a bit of a thread.
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The Kitsap foot ferry had to stop just now for an orca pod. Traffic amirite 🙄
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Can’t beat the Seattle skyline on a beautiful day in the PNW
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Seattle's helmet law is rarely enforced. When it is, it's against homeless people nearly half the time, at least.
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The implication seems to be those are federal officers, but they’re actually all local police officers from Seattle and Bellevue
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Gov. Inslee today warned against people "partying like it's 2015" and I'm trying to figure out what was going on for Inslee in 2015
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NEW: The King County Labor Council has voted to expel the Seattle Police Officers Guild from its ranks.
Story:
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Um... this seems like a scary side effect of the new Rainier Tower's design. (Video sent to me by
@LittleHawthorne
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AG Bob Ferguson's hair has suddenly made me skeptical of any elected officials whose hair looks like they found a haircut somewhere. Bob showing solidarity.
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Genuinely grateful that I’m privileged and healthy enough to be literally the last person in line.
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Robert Champagne was filmed in KOMO's "Seattle is Dying" as the narrator spoke of "sick, tortured souls." Not surprisingly, his story is more complicated — and in many ways a success.
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No joke, I’m on the ferry listening to the game and the moment Frazier hit that a pod of orcas swam by
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I'm not sure that people totally understand: Even if the Legislature passes a new law tomorrow, it can't be applied retroactively. The life of anyone who's ever faced a drug possession charge in WA has likely just changed.
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NEW: Dr. Ben Danielson — the revered medical director of the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic — resigned in protest last month, accusing Seattle Children's Hospital of racism and indifference toward patients and staff of color.
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This is quite stunning. Despite suspicions that Seattle could see a moderate backlash, the council now has a majority — and, depending on Dan Strauss, maybe a supermajority — of council members who support a head tax.
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A man just pointed to the monorail line and asked me if it went all the way to the airport and I felt deeply sad to break to him the news
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The Seattle City Council has just passed a three-month winter-time limit on evictions in the City of Seattle, 7-0.
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In case you were wondering what
@cmkshama
’s priorities are now that she’s won re-election
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February is when you pay 100% of your rent for 93% of a month
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About to eat lunch. I’m craving pasta, anyone need anything from Rome?
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Me at 9 pm in the summer: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me at 3:30 pm in the winter: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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For all the scary news about Delta, I think it's worth pointing out that the 7-day average number of COVID deaths in King County is... zero.
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MOSQUEDA: "I think the mayor should assess in this moment, ask herself if she is the right leader in this moment and resign."
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The horror movie starts with a tiny column tucked inside the paper
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Compared to the police presence we've seen all summer, their absence here is astounding
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I’m calling on the Seattle Mariners to suspend their campaign for the AL West
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That's it: The Seattle Council has voted to override all three of Mayor Durkan's vetoes, meaning their original proposed cuts to SPD and the Nav Team and their new spending on community remain in place.
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Unless you’re in Seattle, in which case these feel like maybe the fourth and fifth most dramatic things to happen today
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I played football when I was younger and all the coaches treated it like the military and then Pete Carroll comes along and wins championships while treating each dude as an individual. What a guy.
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New: 5 Seattle police officers are now under investigation for possible involvement in DC insurrection. Crosscut has learned the name of one — Officer Jason Marchione.
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During roll call of the
@SeattleCouncil
, members were taking "ay" votes over the phone except CM Morales who could be heard shouting "Don't make a mess in the garage."
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The city council is discussing selling the police's horses
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There may be some nuance I'm missing but I'm genuinely unclear how media can be legally barred from an event featuring a majority of the city council
Tried to RSVP and got rejected as "this event is a private fundraiser and is closed to the media." However, with seven of nine council members co-hosting, I think it is in the public interest to see what they're talking about!
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Translation: I'm not spending $600M on Ohtani
Seattle Mariners owner John Stanton on MLB rule changes, robot umpires, and Shohei Ohtani via
@GeekWire
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Four years ago today I made a dumb joke about a "mystery virus" in China, before it was named COVID-19
The horror movie starts with a tiny column tucked inside the paper
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Just as Seattle is set to clear out Cal Anderson park, a person who's been living there is suing the city for allegedly violating her civil rights.
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If only there was some version of CNN, but the journalists live in the city already and won’t leave when the news event is over...
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Genuinely curious how different the country’s response would be if this was moving east to west instead of the other way around
East Coast media 🙋♂️ needs to pay close attention to West Coast impacts of coronavirus – like in Seattle – "already, in less than a month, society has contracted," the
@SeattleTimes
writes
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People probably have strong feelings about this NY Times article, but I’m going to focus on: Can we please stop using the smell of weed as a device to paint a picture of a particular event? It smells like weed everywhere!
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I’ve been avoiding the Discourse and this is the reward I get
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One of the best days of the year is when the Olympics emerge from a cloudy stretch with a fresh coat of snow. Today is that day.
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A study from the UW found highway exhaust has a near-immediate effect on blood pressure -- the equivalent of going from a low-salt to high-salt diet.
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Out of 1M vaccinated people, WA has seen 102 "breakthrough" cases in the last two months, including 8 hospitalizations. For unvaccinated people, the average rate is about 120 per million every day. In other words, the vaccine is exactly as effective as advertised.
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I’ll know we’re “back to normal” when I can drink a beer on the ferry again
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Good morning! Today is my first day as a transportation reporter for the
@seattletimes
. Tips? Ideas? My contact info is in my bio. It's all a bit heady to work for the paper my family subscribed to growing up, but here we are!
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Sister of
#CharleenaLyles
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Snapshot of the sky near Index right now from a friend’s Instagram. I’m on the breaking news beat today, so send me what you’re seeing.
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Also, my hot (cold?) take for the day: People from Seattle aren't "bad at driving in the snow." It's just hilly as hell and does not have the infrastructure to respond like your midwestern town. I've known lots of overly confident transplants who have slid down Capitol Hill.
City council just cancelled its morning briefing. I'll never understand why transplants from more snowy parts of the country make fun of Seattle on snow days. I personally love that we all agree to shut down the city and go sledding whenever possible.
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I don't think I've ever read a paragraph like this in a New York Times feature story.
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Police use pepper spray/blast balls. Not sure what set it off.
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I don't know why this particular gesture makes me emotional, but it does
Starting tonight at 7:30pm PDT we are offering video broadcasts and livestreams to share strength, comfort and unity with our community in Seattle and around the world as we confront the
#coronavirus
.
Schedule:
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Tl;dr:
- Council bans tear gas, blast balls, etc.
- Chief Best, begrudgingly, gives the order to officers.
- DOJ asks federal judge to halt Best's order because they say it violates the consent decree.
"There is no city ordinance exception to the terms of the Consent
Decree."
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit came up over the weekend so I watched it and I forgot that the villain’s sinister plot is to destroy public transit and build an 8-lane highway
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I kinda love this time capsule on the ferry. I hope they keep it for years
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I went long on a simple question: why, despite the obvious need, is the state not currently building any new ferry boats?
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A rep. from Solid Ground, which is responsible for the housing complex, confirmed
@SeattlePD
has taken footage from the security cameras.
2 security cams at either end of hallway.
#CharleenaLyles
' apt is in the middle. Clarity of footage depends on how far into hallway she was.
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The downstream effects are potentially enormous! For example: Someone charged with felony possession of a firearm, but their original felony was drug possession. Seems likely their case will be reviewed. And what about deportation? Or those who lost custody of their children?
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Howard Schultz has indeed brought the country together, as he wanted.
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The state of the ferries in one photo (the website is down so they’re posting notices on cones)
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It’s a good day. After months of stress from working in a hospital and a small clinic, my wife, Elisa, got her first shot today.
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Councilmember
@Lisa_Herbold
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I asked for a single document from the Seattle Police Department -- literally one page -- and this is their ETA for fulfilling my public records request. Out of control.
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NEW: the President of Seattle Children's Research Institue, Dr. Jim Hendricks, has been forced to resign as part of the continuing fallout from Dr. Ben Danielson's recent protest. Story shortly.
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Leaf blower fights might be the thing that finally breaks my brain
After getting much of their own tear gas blown back at them last night, it looks like the feds went to the hardware store and got leaf blowers of their own.
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It's incredible to me that for everything that's changed in South Lake Union, Buca di Beppo has survived it all
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Can't believe I missed the two-year anniversary of my best/worst tweet
The horror movie starts with a tiny column tucked inside the paper
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David is making phone calls and writing down what people say
The Seattle Police Department is responding to 911 calls for service and working to provide public safety across the city.
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Suggesting that Seattle’s single family neighborhoods offer the chance at a “starter home” is the most out of touch thing I’ve ever read.
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Congrats, everyone. We made it to the center of the Big Dark. Now we can start climbing out.
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I get my second Moderna shot today and am really looking forward to having a deeply emotional experience in the back of a Safeway
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I can confirm Chief Best is resigning, effective September 2nd
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I wrote 3,500 words about how Seattle's homeless shelters are totally overwhelmed by the level of illness among their clients. You have 23-year-old staff dealing with people who need nursing homes that don't exist.
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I shit on Seattle all the time and then the moment someone who doesn’t live here says something like this I’m getting Space Needle tattoos across my chest
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Programming note: I’m moving off of the transportation beat for the Times and taking over City Hall coverage. It’s been a few years so please, please send me tips, ideas, wild gossip.
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CNN is basically highly paid people explaining what I learned in a single tweet over an entire hour
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I'm at "unhealthy is the new healthy" stage of wildfire smoke
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Hi! I'm a little nervous to ask this, BUT: I'm interviewing Mayor Durkan on Sept. 16. What questions should I ask her? And please please please answer this tweet in good faith, otherwise I'm deleting it.
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Seattle becomes the first city to pass a bill of rights for domestic workers, guaranteeing minimum wage, breaks and that workers keep their personal documentation.
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