Politics
Update: McGinn smashes press release record!
Sacramento Kings, Yello Leaf cupcakes, Books for Bikes. Hizzoner wins most-press-releases-in-a-month award.
Matt A. Fikse
Matt Fikse-Verkerk (Twitter: @mattfikse) covered urban affairs, politics, tech, and business at Crosscut from 2009 to 2014. He lives in Seattle and works for a biotechnology firm in Redmond, WA.
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Politics
Memo to mayoral candidates: Send more press releases!
While Mike McGinn eagerly courts media attention in this pre-primary period, his seven challengers have been largely silent. What are they waiting for?
Politics
Pugel's video: Should "Mocking the Homeless" be a career limiter?
Seattle's new interim police chief says he's sorry about the offensive video he made in the eighties. Is that enough?
Equity
Seattle's new waterfront cameras: The beginning of city-wide surveillance?
Digging into the paperwork for Seattle's waterfront surveillance system brings up questions about privacy and the growing scope of the project.
Politics
Paper trail: Four key documents that describe the SPD's new surveillance network
After sifting through hundreds of pages on the city's "port security" surveillance camera and data network project, we were left with more questions than answers. Here's the paperwork. What do you think?