I haven’t yet, although I’ve watched several interviews with Juan around the time it was released, and other sources, like E. Jean Carroll’s HST biography, shed light on how poorly he treated Sandy.

I went through a big HST phase at the tail end of high school/start of college, and my mother, also a fan of his better writing, helped a young me understand that the crazy addict behavior was actually the boring part of his career and persona, for which I’m thankful.

It’s very tragic. He was an abusive husband and a shit father. It’s a more than small miracle that his son turned out okay. As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to realize that for most of his later years he was a pathetic figure.

To put it in context, during the height of the boom, 2-3 bidders was the average. Occasionally projects would get one or zero.

The city will continue to procure a robust portfolio of public works projects, from the self-funded utilities and parks and transportation levies, but the end of federal money takes a big chunk of transpo projects off the table. It’ll only pick up so much slack.

This week, we had 13 bidders for a public works project. In the seven years prior to this, I don’t recall ever seeing more than 8-9, and 8-9 was very rare until very recently. This is usually canary in the coal mine for private sector slowdown. In 7 years I’ve never seen worse.

There's also the timing of it, where almost 90 House Democrats voted for a resolution condemning socialism this morning, ostensibly in appeal to non-liberal/left voters, and this afternoon's press conference was basically like saying "those people won't give a shit".

And I do that because I think that at the end of the day, playing video games with their friends is Just Fine. I'm part of the first generation to make a staple activity out of that. But we've come a long way from Nintendo in your neighbor's basement, and you have to respect the landscape. 4/

That is why I control every login for my kids. That is why I review the YouTube search history. That is why I have detailed conversations with them about what is okay/safe, what I don't want to see as their parent, and just learning how they interact with any platform they like. 3/

I don't believe you should let your kids have any kind of online presence that you are not willing to manage. Expecting a tech CEO to keep your kids safe or even significantly care about child safety to begin with is delusional. Kids are just revenue-generating widgets to them. 2/

Listening to the Seattle Nice interview, I got a sense that she understands she's going to have to cut her way to a balanced budget in the next cycle, and is not happy about it. Thanks for salting the earth on your way out, Bruce and Sara.

I'm sure it's going to be pleasant change under the Wilson administration for these groups to no longer have to fellate a vengeful man's ego in order to have access to the mayor's office.

The modern history of Seattle is the boom-and-bust cycle of a company town. We should recognize that every new era of corporate dominance is transient, and if we seek to build anything lasting and enduring here, it's not going to come from them.

I read this, and I hear my son and his friends screaming "6-7!!!!" at the top of their lungs.

They think that being a public servant should be a shitty, undesirable job, so anything that makes public servants happier and makes public service jobs more attractive is bad.

A lot of this blustering is really just an expression their belief that public service should be arduous and unattractive.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the County recently offload a lot of its office space to save money?

Their argument is categorically incorrect because frontline services are still staffed in person.

He is truly one of the worst people in that administration, by virtue of the fact that his actions are going to be directly linked to the preventable deaths of scores of children.