Jim Demetre

Our daily internal newsletter at the Seattle Parks Department reads like Harrell campaign propaganda.

Only good kings

Autumn in South Seattle

Black Locust grove, Golden Gardens

Where's the local DA?

Ellison paid a lot of money to kill CBS news and make sure no one will watch its replacement.

Even conservatives want a culture of consumer choice.

Cydonia oblonga 'Smyrna'

bruce's lack of action on the housing crisis is palpable

he has not opened the shelter beds he campaigned on 4 years ago

comp plan update is years late, inadequate, and incredibly anti-renter

literal face of opposition for social housing

permitting dropped off a cliff with no plan to fix

Americans may not be politically engaged but they are accustomed to having consumer choices.

Democrats should feel free to oppose anything and everything Trump does. Their voters want and expect Dems to do so anyway. Don’t complain about distractions or hesitate. Fight back!

a man in a suit and tie stands in a field of flowers Alt: a man in a suit and tie stands in a field of flowers. Waiting for the comp plan

One of the reasons that new housings starts have tanked is that Harrell’s administration sat on the comp plan for a year.
Property owners are treading water waiting for the new zoning.
Spare me the election season rhetoric that Harrell is the right person to make housing more affordable.

The Seattle City Council seems very predisposed to grifters like this.

It is actually nuts that even when the NYC political establishment was presented with a broad field of talented candidates w/ many ideas, in a time of generational change & anti-corruption, they STILL chose to line up behind scandal-ridden Andrew Cuomo.

It’s cowardice.

Don't know if I'm still in or out.

Tony Roberts saves the day

How hard would it be to put the street names on these maps?

The Dicentra looks happy

Malvia is more likely. Artemisia lobes often get wider at the tips, but there is a lot of variance from plant to plant. I guess you'll have to wait for the flowers.

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We have plenty of our own trees that do that. These are only suitable for public parks or large estates.

Azalea, Seward Park

It is not native, but that hardly matters. The real problem is that this giant, fast-growing tree does not belong in an urban residential landscape. It can lift homes up off their foundations and destroy sewer systems.

Ai Weiwei's Waterlilies at SAAM

Cydonia oblonga 'Smyrna'

Sequoia sempervirens should never be planted in an urban residential landscape.