Eli Sanders
The Stranger
Seattle, WA, United States
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Can I Grow Potatoes in a Traffic Circle?
UPDATE, 8/27: No potatoes, but look at that traffic circle! ORIGINAL POST, 4/7: Over the weekend, a reader looked out the window of his fifth-floor Capitol Hill apartment and noticed something unusual. The weeds occupying the traffic circle in the street beneath him, previously left to their own sprawling agendas, were being yanked out by a determined neighbor. It was a sunny day. As the weeding… → Read More
Here's What's Going to Happen
The Stranger predicts the future. → Read More
Here's What's Going to Happen
The Stranger predicts the future. → Read More
Slog AM: How Did Closing Seattle's Parks Work Out? And Will Dr. Fauci Be Fired?
How did closing Seattle's parks over the weekend work out? The city says it thwarted the kind of outdoor crowds that could potentially spread coronavirus, but The Seattle Times found "hundreds" of people breaking Mayor Jenny Durkan's closure rule. At Alki beach, the newspaper also observed that closing the beach led to nearby sidewalks getting more crowded, which in turn made the beach seem like… → Read More
A Garden of Small Victories
It's lockdown season. It's also spring. → Read More
Social Distancing Is Working in Seattle, But If We Let Up "The Outbreak Will Come Roaring Back"
"The measures we’ve put in place appear to be working," said Dr. Jeffrey Duchin, the head of King County's health department, on a conference call with journalists this afternoon. Pointing at two new reports from Bellevue's Institute for Disease Modeling, Duchin endorsed the idea that Seattle is making progress at slowing COVID-19 transmission. "We are looking at reductions in person-to-person… → Read More
Trump Coronavirus "GUIDELINES" Land in West Coast Mailboxes
Has the president actually read this thing? → Read More
How Much Money Are We Getting Today?
Suddenly, everyone at all levels of government seems to agree: Americans need money fast, because the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is just too swift and severe. Little has yet materialized in the form of cash in people's hands, but here's a roundup of what's being floated today: • Trump wants two waves of direct payments made to all Americans, though how much would be in each… → Read More
From a Reader in Spain, a Warning on Public Parks During a Pandemic
Yesterday, I looked into what social distancing means for Seattle's 485 public parks. The short answer, for now: use them for solo adventures and activities in which humans are well-spaced out from each other, but "do not congregate." Seeing this, Eric, a Slog reader in locked-down Spain, wrote:... → Read More
King County Residents Urged to "Self Quarantine" as Inslee Expands Social Distancing Measures
“If we are living a normal life right now, we’re just not doing our jobs as Washingtonians," Governor Jay Inslee said at a press conference in Seattle this morning, during which he laid out expanded statewide measures to combat the spread of coronavirus. To put more force behind the efforts of state and local governments to encourage social distancing, Inslee is shutting down bars, restaurants,… → Read More
Attorney General Ferguson "Ready" to Take on Facebook Over Charges of Repeated Campaign Finance Violations
He sued Facebook in 2018, saying the company had repeatedly broken Washington state campaign finance laws by failing to make required disclosures about millions of dollars in local political ads. Then, six months later, Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson agreed to let Facebook settle the matter without an admission of guilt—but required the tech giant to pay a $200,000 penalty and… → Read More
Seattle's Most Powerful Politicians
A bunch of incredibly talkative people represent your interests at all levels of the American power structure. If you live in Seattle, at least 27 people take care of civic business for you: one mayor, nine Seattle City Council members, one King County executive, nine King County Council members, two representatives to the Washington State Legislature (representing your district), one state… → Read More
First US Case of Wuhan Virus Reported in Washington State
There are new fears that a mysterious virus that broke out in China is spreading globally. It's called the Wuhan coronavirus, and the Centers for Disease Control just reported that the first known US case has been identified in Washington state. From the New York Times: The man is a resident of Snohomish County, Wash., who experienced symptoms after returning from a trip to the region around… → Read More
Google, Under State Investigation, Reveals the Vast Reach of "Dark" Ads That Targeted Spokane
To sway 40,000 voters, Google ads were shown 6.2 million times. → Read More
Seattle's Secret Beaches
All of these beaches and parks belong to you—use them! → Read More
Robots Are Going to Be Picking Washington State's Apples This Fall
Washington state produces a majority of America's apples, and until now pretty much all 2.5 million annual tons of our apples have been picked by human hands. No more. As GeekWire reports, apple-picking robots are coming for Washington's crop this fall, after having debuted in New Zealand. These robotic pickers won't entirely replace human hands this year and, unlike in the above photo, they… → Read More
Can't Afford College? Starting in 2020, Washington State Will Pay Your Tuition
If your family can't afford to send you to college—or even if your family can afford some college costs, but would struggle with others—Washington state is about to start offering you a potentially life-changing amount of money. Under a bill passed by the state legislature this year, students from families earning less than around $50,000 per year can have their entire public college tuition… → Read More
Pete Buttigieg and the Modern False Smear Formula
For decades upon decades in recent American history, if you wanted to mislead a vast audience with a false smear against someone, you needed to get that smear past certain mass media "gatekeepers"—people like radio show producers, television network editors, and reporters at mass circulation dailies like the New York Times and the Washington Post. By and large, these were skeptical folks who… → Read More
Nancy Pelosi Again Says No to Impeachment
In the wake of the redacted Mueller report, a number of Democrats are demanding impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Among them: AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Maxine Waters in the House of Representatives and Elizabeth Warren in the Senate. Plus, Seattle's Congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal, has been on the record supporting impeachment since 2017 and now sits on the House… → Read More
Nancy Pelosi Again Says No to Impeachment
In the wake of the redacted Mueller report, a number of Democrats are demanding impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Among them: AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Maxine Waters in the House of Representatives and Elizabeth Warren in the Senate. Plus, Seattle's Congresswoman, Pramila Jayapal, has been on the record supporting impeachment since 2017 and now sits on the House… → Read More