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This is a headline I didn't have on my BINGO card

"The approved programming places the jail’s size at about 150,000 square feet with between 450 and 460 beds. About a quarter of those beds would be used for behavioral health care.

The current jail is roughly 90,000 square feet and contains up to 427 beds."

25% of 460 is 115.. 460-115 is 345.

Our population is expanding rapidly. Our current jail doesn't have enough beds and we are spending a fortune on a new jail with 82 fewer beds than what we have now. How does that make sense?

EDIT

this comment from the County makes it all make much more sense.

"While the current facility has up to 427 beds, the functional use space is much closer 300-320 beds due to spacing, safety, population requirements (women vs men incarcerated) and poor layout. Here is Sheriff Tanksley's guidance on booking restrictions at the current facility that goes into more details about the challenges with those 300-some beds. On any given day, there is approximately 285-290 people currently in the County jail system.

With the new facility, the County will have a functional use much closer to its full capacity - and is anticipated to meet our needs well into the future, even before you consider the impact of the new Behavioral Care Center, which will work as a diversion facility for incarcerated people who qualify (not a safety risk and interested in getting clean/sober/help).

For more details on the current proposal, you can watch a presentation to Council from our jail consultant STV here, or drop more questions in this thread and I'll do my best to answer them."n

The anonymous complaint post was shown to be a false accusation shortly after it was posted. OP responded to the post that explained that the issue had already been resolved prior to the post. Why is the false accusation allowed to be left up? Why would someone choose to leave their own false accusation post after they realize that are wrong? There appears to be a culture here that enjoys going after businesses and business owners. Maybe think about that the next time people are frustrated that they can't find a job.

That was posted 11 hours ago, and OP responded to the post that set the record straight 11 hours ago.

Edit, this is about the fish post. There is no subtext about the video game place.

This article makes some interesting points. Anyone have a good rebuttal. The author is a Republic radio guy from Seattle. We could just dismiss his words because he is a Republican, but he does make some interesting points.

Now is a good time to donate.

This article is a great rebuttal to the one I just posted.

"Now it is true that in the last couple years (which aren’t yet included in Puget Sound Regional Council datasets), the national tech market has turned to layoffs. We are feeling this in profound ways in tech-heavy Seattle (and Bellevue, and Redmond). It has hit hard in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and in low-tax Austin as well.  But this is obviously a national trend, not a local one. And in fact, in the latest period (after the social housing tax was passed), tech layoffs look like they are hitting Bellevue harder than Seattle. 

Taxes are clearly not driving these behaviors, even if they serve as the excuse after the fact.

Sadly, corporate lobbyists will seize this moment to blame progressive policy for a national trend that is reflected in our region—which I think is a gross way to prey on people’s real fears. This is a pattern for the corporate PR machine: they have blamed obvious national trends on local progressive policy time and time again—such as difficulty hiring police, retail theft, the fentanyl epidemic, and now tech layoffs. And that was just the last five years!

Those national trends do require robust local responses, of course. But we shouldn’t be fooled by lobbyists who pretend the world’s background conditions are driven by local policy.  In any case, we should be careful not to swallow the party line from trillion dollar corporations."

“2026 is not 2009. Amazon is not going to save the day again. Microsoft is shrinking. The leadership at the state and city level is hostile to existing business and entrepreneurs, and the tax policies show it. Law enforcement is handcuffed, frustrated and eyeing their pensions. Climbing out of the hole in Seattle’s office market will take another Amazon miracle (or three), and the miracle is not going to happen without a change at the ballot box or a radical about face by the current Mayor and Governor,” he warned.

Interesting article about vacant office buildings in Seattle. I worry that Bellingham often comes up with ideas by copying whatever Seattle does.

This is heartbreaking.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/medical-food-gas-and-other-expenses-for-the-mccartney-family

As officials move forward with upgrades to the Post Point incinerators while searching for a long-term replacement, environmentalists push for a faster transition

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bellinghams-waterfront-bike-park-gets-a-new-upgrade-ahead-of-nw-tune-up.html

I never thought I'd be nostalgic for Canadians at Costco, our buddy-guy-friend's from the north.

First, my apologies for the click bait-ish title.

Change My View

will admit that I am a bit Progressive Curious. I think that may view is capable of being changed. I consider myself a center left Democrat. I was reading about Scheel and then read about Larsen. There are definitely many areas where I agree more with Scheel than Larsen. I didn't expect that. I was surprised to learn the Larsen is opposed to Medicare for all, which is something that I feel strongly about.

It got me wondering why do I have such a negative view of Progressives? The anti police stuff is obnoxious because our local police are pretty good. Bad police in other places doesn't make out police bad. The anti business rhetoric rubs me wrong because I believe a healthy economy benefits us all. One of my biggest grievances is the Bernie people who say out the election because they didn't get their preferred candidate. I believe they are personally responsible for Trump being elected. My final issue is the name calling. It seems like progressives and magas are both quick to shift from debate to name calling.

Change my view, please. I open to being convinced. Perhaps my view of Progressives is falsely tainted by a few obnoxious outspoken people.

Informative article about the potential school closures.

I wonder what these people hope will happen by going to a Seattle news station.