David Brewster, a founding member of Post Alley, has a long career in publishing, having founded Seattle Weekly, Sasquatch Books, and Crosscut.com. His civic ventures have been Town Hall Seattle and FolioSeattle.
The crowded mayor's race means that a splinter candidate needs only to get 17-20 percent to make it through the primary. An open seat and a very open race.
Both Kean and Hamilton voiced some skepticism about finding enough fair-minded and trusted commissioners for the proposed 1/6 Commission, and one can also imagine the jockeying for various voices and equity issues in building the commission and even funding it.
The Democrats had two de-escalatory options, but Republicans wouldn't bite and Democrats retreated to an impeachment-or-nothing stance. Result: nothing.
Forbes has a long story on Portland, Oregon, probing whether the city has shot itself in the foot by all those protests, poor political leadership, high costs of living. One...