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Seattle Nice — 201 episodes

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Seattle's Aurora Ave Sex Trade Fight & Mayor's Office Shakeup

2

Seattle Transit Tax Showdown, "Lewd" Nude Beach Ruling & Mayoral Travel

3

Six Months In: Grading Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

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Is Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Still an Urbanist?

5

World Cup Glow, Homeless Surge: Seattle's Unsheltered Population Up 21%

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Has King County's Human Services Department Fixed the Problems Flagged in that "Damning" Audit?

7

Mayor Wants to Double Down on Seattle Transit Sales Tax

8

Are Falling Seattle Home Prices Good News? Redfin's Chief Economist Has Answers.

9

How Badly Did Sound Transit Just Screw Seattle?

10

Is Sound Transit Ignoring a Plan that Could Save Ballard Light Rail?

11

Communication Breakdown: Council Blows Up at Mayoral Aides in Seattle

12

Mayoral “Gaffes,” Tiny Houses, Massive Drama

13

Alarming Audit, Missing Millions: Is the End Nigh for KCRHA?

14

Will Dialing Back Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) “Unf—k” Seattle Housing?

15

Mayor Wilson’s Shelter Push and What's a Spodie?

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"Taller, Denser, Faster"

17

Bigger and Bolder on Density: New CM Eddie Lin Says It's Time

18

Mayor’s Partial Pause on Seattle Surveillance Cameras

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Downtown Seattle Association CEO says downtown is back (sort of)

20

Questions about Mayor Wilson's Shelter Plan For Seattle

21

Are these three Seattle controversies all about union power?

22

Mayor Katie Wilson Gets Seattle Nice about the State of the City

23

Preview: Joe Nguyen was a Progressive Legislator. Now he Heads the Chamber.

24

New Councilmember Dionne Foster's Goals for Seattle

25

Two Years In, CARE Chief Amy Barden Says Her Crisis Response Team Still Faces Roadblocks

26

Scott Lindsay, Deputy for Ousted City Attorney Ann Davison, Doesn't Mince Words

27

City Attorney Evans Charts a New Course on Drug Prosecutions

28

2026 Forecast: Will Katie Wilson Save Seattle with Pragmatism?

29

Is SPD contract a "complete failure" of police reform by current city leadership?

30

Executives Gone Wild? Seattle, King County Shakeups

31

Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson says Seattle Nice is “Special”

32

A Political Earthquake: Katie Wilson’s Huge Mayoral Win and the Price of Pizza

33

Sum and Substance of Seattle's Election Results

34

Closing Attacks in Seattle Mayor’s Race

35

Nicest City Attorney Debate

36

CoLEAD Brings a New Approach to 12th and Jackson

37

Food Fight: Urban Progress and Its Discontents

38

Budget Bickering and Buttigieg Backing

39

Sales Tax Scheming and Seattle’s Shifting City Scape

40

Should Seattle Surveil More?

41

ICYMI: Katie Wilson, Did the Left Get It Wrong on Homelessness?

42

Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market: A Blue City Blues Podcast Preview

43

Should the City Permit Another Christian Nationalist Rally at Cal Anderson?

44

Progressive Primary Palooza

45

Encampment Ban Proposal, Progressive Biz Taxes, and Why is Seattle Suing the Trump Admin Now?

46

Lisa Daugaard on Trump’s Homelessness Exec Order: Read the Fine Print Before Freaking Out

47

Primary Preview: Is the Progressive Left Back?

48

The Writing on the Wall: Seattle Grapples with Graffiti and Politics

49

Council President Sara Nelson Gets Touchy-Feely on Treatment

50

The Taxman (and Woman) Cometh!

51

Is It Time to Admit the King County Regional Homelessness Authority Is a Bust?

52

Assessing the Assessor, Urbanism v. Incivility, and Seattle Hates Nightlife

53

Special Emergency Seattle Nice: The Seattle City Council Is Un-Cathy Moored!

54

Assessor Allegedly Stalks, Ethics Walks, and the Culture War Rocks Seattle

55

FEED DROP: On this Month's "Are You Mad At Me?," We Interview Shattered Glass Director Billy Ray

56

Tent City Gets a Reprieve, Council Rolls Back Ethics Rules, and Kshama's Back, Baby!

57

Adam Smith: How Bad is Trump for Seattle? Really bad!

58

This Program Offers New Hope for Fentanyl Users

59

Prude or Lewd at Denny Blaine, Harrell Flexes His Muscles, and State Budget Axes Successful Homeless Program

60

D2 Council Race Unpacked, Crosswalks Hacked, and will the Virginia Inn get Axed?

61

Does Trump's economy spell doom for Seattle?

62

Developers, Guns and Money: Another Week of Council Controversies

63

Blue City Blues preview: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities

64

Sara Nelson Talks Stadium District Housing, Progressive Revenue, and Involuntary Commitment

65

Are You Mad At Me? Episode 2: We Talk to Adam Penenberg, Who Uncovered the Deception at the Heart of "Shattered Glass"

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Sound Transit Picks Dow? And Challengers Take on Harrell and Davison

67

Seattle Elections Heat Up and Trump Gets Punitive

68

Does Mayor Bruce Harrell Heart Elon Musk? Plus, Seattle Fights Over Totem Poles and Trees

69

Joy Hollingsworth on Seattle’s Racial Politics and Whether She’s the Council’s Swing Vote

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Preview: Grading Bruce Harrell's State of the City

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Election result: Did Voters Make Seattle Progressive Again?

72

New Podcast Preview: Are You Mad At Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast

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SODA, SOAP, and SODO

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City Council Appointee Mark Solomon Talks Density, Public Safety, Blast Balls, and More

75

Did the Left Get It Wrong on Homelessness?

76

Seattle's Nicest 2025 Predictions

77

Debate: Is Seattle Ready to Go Big on Social Housing?

78

Who will fill the vacant Seattle City Council seat?

79

Blast Balls and Colonoscopies: Bob Kettle on Public Safety and the Council’s 2025 Priorities

80

Why all the controversy over Seattle’s annual minimum wage hike? And is Amazon’s return to work mandate a positive or negative?

81

All of your questions answered

82

Ex-SPD Chief Diaz Fired, Bus Stabbing Sparks Safety Debate, Graffiti Crackdown

83

Anti-"strip club" petitioners and Seattle's debate about crowd control

84

The good, the bad, and the ugly takes on Tammy Morales quitting Seattle's City Council

85

Is Seattle's council less centrist than we thought?

86

Dow Constantine's moving on and Seattle's surprise proposal to tax the rich

87

Is Rinck's win scaring Seattle city council centrists?

88

Is the Seattle City Council race over?

89

Dan Savage and the Blue City Blues podcast preview

90

WTF is wrong with Seattle Public Schools?

91

How to really help homeless people with DESC’s Daniel Malone

92

Interim Chief Sue Rahr's candid thoughts about SPD. Plus, Kshama Sawant campaigns against Kamala Harris

93

One question: Who won the Seattle city council debate?

94

Big debate night!

95

Progressives pan Mayor Harrell's budget. Plus, debate watch party!

96

Two Social Housing Measures Enter. One Measure Leaves.

97

Does Seattle Need More Drug Laws?

98

Is Design Review dying in Seattle?

99

Is Seattle's downtown really recovering?

100

Are SOAP zones the right way to clean up Seattle?

101

The Extra-Nice Post-Primary Election Episode

102

Is Seattle Still In Its Backlash Era?

103

PREVIEW: Will jailing more people fix downtown Seattle? Lisa Daugaard weighs in.

104

SPD's interim head Sue Rahr puts her foot down

105

Is Civility Dying in Seattle?

106

Supreme Court episode: Are sweeps the answer?

107

"Do Nothing" Seattle City Council?

108

Why are NPR and WaPo struggling compared to peer news organizations?

109

What should Seattle do about gun violence in schools?

110

Is Seattle Ungovernable?

111

Nudity in Seattle parks and homeless count controversy

112

Do you support Seattle Mayor Harrell's new overdose recovery facility plan?

113

Seattle Nice Live! Street prostitution, crime and drugs on Aurora Ave

114

$5M Lawsuit accuses Seattle police of sexual discrimination and harassment

115

Why was Seattle's original draft plan for more dense housing watered down?

116

New Poll: Is Seattle's glass half full or still half empty?

117

Seattle's new police contract, $1.35 billion transportation levy and the migrant crisis

118

Seattle Police contract includes 23 percent retroactive raise

119

Seattle considers changes to police hiring tests and gig delivery worker pay

120

Shocking presidential primary vote and Seattle Mayor's controversial comprehensive plan

121

Did Seattle's new council overreact to recent protests at city hall?

122

Mayor Bruce Harrell says Seattle's making progress under his leadership

123

Seattle's Sizzling Social Housing Debate

124

Gay bar raids, voter turnoutgate and a mistrial

125

Tanya Woo's controversial Seattle city council appointment

126

We Are In Implodes

127

Who is likely to get Seattle's open city council job?

128

Who really wants Teresa Mosqueda's old job on the Seattle city council?

129

Rockin' New Year's Eve special predicting Seattle's future

130

Seattle's Nicest Year in Review

131

What's next for Seattle with a new city council?

132

Centrists flip Seattle city council. Now what?

133

Will Urbanism Win Seattle's city council races?

134

On Drugs: Seattle council races, final stretch edition

135

Election fever burns hot in two Seattle city council races

136

Was the plan to end homelessness in downtown Seattle doomed to fail?

137

Will the Seattle police video scandal provoke reform?

138

Will Seattle's proposed drug law make a difference?

139

Blame game on Seattle's hotel shelter program

140

Taxes and drugs

141

What really happened, Seattle?

142

Seattle Election Eve Palooza

143

Seattle city council election flambé

144

Baseball Sweep Denial and D4 Showdown in Seattle

145

Shake up but not stirred at city hall

146

Seattle's drug law debate

147

What's really going on with King County homelessness policy?

148

Seattle what should we do about drugs?

149

Voters approve crisis center levy. Now what?

150

Will Bruce Harrell's Executive Order on Drugs make a difference?

151

Lisa Daugaard's plan for "public disorder" on Third Avenue

152

Is Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison doing a good job with "repeat offenders."

153

Sound Transit board votes to skip Chinatown and First Hill

154

How to interpret Mayor Harrell's State of the City address

155

Your questions about Seattle council races, pedestrian deaths, and more

156

How to vote on the Seattle social housing levy I-135

157

Will the last person leaving Seattle City Council — turn out the lights

158

Billions and billions to end homelessness in King County

159

Emergency Podcast: Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant won't run again

160

Does historic preservation in Seattle go too far?

161

Why isn't Seattle's Alex Pedersen running for re-election, really?

162

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's Year in Review

163

Would Seattle politics be better off without Twitter?

164

Why is Lisa Herbold not running for re-election to the Seattle City Council

165

Final budget battles amidst Harrell-ded harmony in Seattle

166

Election Forecast fails and Sandeep gloats about beating MAGA Joe Kent

167

Pins, needles and midterm election predictions

168

#poopgate, plus troubling news for Dan Strauss of the Seattle City Council

169

Should Seattle spend millions on "Unified Care Team" expansion?

170

Seattle's big budget battle

171

Harrell picks Diaz, and Seattle Nice reacts

172

Turbulence over Seattle plan to hire more park rangers

173

Seattle teacher's strike and the city leaf blower crisis

174

End of mayoral honeymoon for "authentic" Bruce Harrell?

175

Hot takes on big WA primary and Seattle City Council hijinks

176

Fentanyl crisis and the personal politics of addiction

177

Why is Starbucks really closing stores in Seattle?

178

Charleena Lyles verdict + Seattle City Council voting reform maneuvering

179

Seattle Nice takes on the U.S. Supreme Court

180

Police reform takes a step forward + Is Seattle's World Cup fever overheated?

181

Who should take blame for Seattle's sexual assault case backlog?

182

Should Seattle raise Amazon's taxes again?

183

More "cleanups" but is Seattle making progress on homelessness?

184

Complacency on the abortion issue and Washington State politics

185

Should Sound Transit let people ride light rail for free?

186

Is Ann Davison Stealing Nicole Thomas-Kennedy’s Policy Platform?

187

Seattle's rich keep getting richer and there's too much dog poop

188

Is a new approach to homelessness working in Seattle and King County?

189

Seattle TV reporter fired for Tweeting about a Proud Boys rally

190

Is Third Avenue Bruce Harrell's Afghanistan?

191

Debating Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's "Operation New Day" crime-fighting campaign

192

Is downtown Seattle dying?

193

Blue city crime debate and SBUX resolution rancor on Seattle's City Council

194

Seattle debates crime and punishment after Mayor Bruce Harrell's presser

195

Is Rudy Giuliani what Republicans in the Seattle area need right now?

196

Will the move to end single family zoning in Washington State destroy America?

197

Mayor Bruce Harrell extends Seattle's eviction moratorium just as New York’s expires

198

Can Mayor Bruce Harrell bridge Seattle's political divides?

199

Seattle Mayor Durkan's Legacy is up for Debate

200

Unlike the sun, politics rises in the West and sets in the East

201

You Can't Recall Kshama Sawant