David Kroman

She called 911 for an ambulance. She got a nightmare instead Seattle no longer is capping ambulance wait times for certain 911 patients, tracking those waits or penalizing its contractor when they run long.

I watched @dbeekman.bsky.social anguish over this story for months and the final product shows. Fantastic work. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Democrats hold all the power in Olympia. They should probably be allowed to complain about each other on Facebook

If you’re ever tempted to plant hops directly into the ground, don’t. This is one root from one I had to dig up. They’re monsters.

It’s a slightly thicker tire, but yeah, I packed extras

Appropriately I nearly ate shit in that crack while filming this

I generally think biking is a good way for a city hall reporter to get around, except when the mayor holds a press conference in deep SoDo

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms had what I really liked about the first five seasons of Game of Thrones — humor, interesting interpersonal relationships, unglamorous violence and a willingness to deny viewers what they think they want

Mayors, unlike council people, do not have to attend public meetings and listen to public comment. Answering questions at press conferences is pretty much the only time they have to answer to the public directly, even if it's via journalists asking questions.

It was a very bad look at a press conference related to what is, arguably, the primary goal of her tenure as mayor

My ride into work on Bell st just got a lot more dramatic!

This from a PDR I just got back

Tired: Seattle can't keep a mayor
Wired: Seattle can't keep a head of City Light. We're likely to have four different ones just this year.

I got a large pile of dirt delivered to my house this week and it’s embarrassing how happy that makes me

Mayor Katie Wilson asks departments for possible cuts as city faces $140M deficit The request signals that Wilson is seeking options beyond new taxes to close looming budget deficits.

Mayor Katie Wilson has asked departments to deliver plans for 5-10% cuts. Doesn’t mean those cuts will happen, but a sign of the challenges ahead
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Me, talking to myself after failing to win a Pulitzer:

Nah. Onetime she laughed at me for filing a records request with CARE because she just passes out whatever you want

Amy Barden of the CARE team is the most blunt spoken city leader I've ever interacted with and she's backing that up today in City Hall, ripping into the restrictions on her team's ability to respond to many events that are baked into the new police contract.

When people die in WA prisons, many don’t get an autopsy Autopsies offer the best chance at flagging whether mistreatment contributed to an incarcerated person’s death. But state officials often skip them.

Last year a state Corrections employee told me she was troubled by prison officials’ failure to request autopsies after people died in custody. I looked into it for @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

This thing has happened to me a few times now where I see a band in high school and think I'm catching the tail end of their careers, only to look up 20 years later and they're still playing. Belle and Sebastian fits this bill.

Is Courtney Barnett's 'Depreston' the only song about the soul crushing process of real estate shopping?

She also confirms she hasn't made any changes to the city's encampment removal protocols. That was self-evident, but interesting to hear her say it.

Mayor Katie Wilson Gets Seattle Nice about the State of the City Podcast Episode · Seattle Nice · February 20 · 31m

Wilson sounds, not just equivocal on police cameras, but largely in favor on Seattle Nice's interview with her today. She talks about how crimes will go unsolved if they're turned off. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

No matter what, I will continue to hate the NYT's use of live blogs as the top story for major news events. Give me a story! If you want updates, attach it to the bottom.

The reporter becomes the reported (Good to cruise with Gordon for a few blocks!)

It took Mayor Katie Wilson 37 minutes into her State of the City to mention the Seahawks. A new era in local government.

Pedestrian killed in Capitol Hill collision Firefighters extracted a person from under a vehicle Monday night in Capitol Hill. The person later died.

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Will Katie Wilson turn off Seattle’s surveillance cameras? Opposing expansion of the CCTV cameras downtown and elsewhere was a big part of Mayor Wilson's campaign, but now she is hearing from communities that want them.

The shooting at Rainier Beach HS, where Mayor Wilson heard from families affected by gun violence, appears to have genuinely scrambled the mayor's calculations on CCTV cameras. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

I just remembered the last time the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl, Crosscut sent someone (Art Thiel) to cover it! Times have changed!

The world is an ugly place so might as well go all-in on Dom Canzone

Doing a little City Hall reporting today