All Episodes
Seattle Nice — 208 episodes
What Should Seattle Do to Stop the Bleeding?
ORCAs, STARs, and Trump's Baleful Eye: the State of Seattle's Homelessness Services
Spinning in Circles: Seattle's Police Chief Carousel, Sayles Saga and KCRHA Layoffs
Recall Mania, New RV Rules & Not "Barnes 2.0"
Mayor Katie Wilson's Bad Bets, The Stranger's Mysterious Power, and the Slow Death of KCRHA
Preview: Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes Has Left the Building, Part Deux
Emergency Edition: Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes Refuses to Resign, Then Does
Seattle's Aurora Ave Sex Trade Fight & Mayor's Office Shakeup
Seattle Transit Tax Showdown, "Lewd" Nude Beach Ruling & Mayoral Travel
Six Months In: Grading Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson
Is Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson Still an Urbanist?
World Cup Glow, Homeless Surge: Seattle's Unsheltered Population Up 21%
Has King County's Human Services Department Fixed the Problems Flagged in that "Damning" Audit?
Mayor Wants to Double Down on Seattle Transit Sales Tax
Are Falling Seattle Home Prices Good News? Redfin's Chief Economist Has Answers.
How Badly Did Sound Transit Just Screw Seattle?
Is Sound Transit Ignoring a Plan that Could Save Ballard Light Rail?
Communication Breakdown: Council Blows Up at Mayoral Aides in Seattle
Mayoral “Gaffes,” Tiny Houses, Massive Drama
Alarming Audit, Missing Millions: Is the End Nigh for KCRHA?
Will Dialing Back Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) “Unf—k” Seattle Housing?
Mayor Wilson’s Shelter Push and What's a Spodie?
"Taller, Denser, Faster"
Bigger and Bolder on Density: New CM Eddie Lin Says It's Time
Mayor’s Partial Pause on Seattle Surveillance Cameras
Downtown Seattle Association CEO says downtown is back (sort of)
Questions about Mayor Wilson's Shelter Plan For Seattle
Are these three Seattle controversies all about union power?
Mayor Katie Wilson Gets Seattle Nice about the State of the City
Preview: Joe Nguyen was a Progressive Legislator. Now he Heads the Chamber.
New Councilmember Dionne Foster's Goals for Seattle
Two Years In, CARE Chief Amy Barden Says Her Crisis Response Team Still Faces Roadblocks
Scott Lindsay, Deputy for Ousted City Attorney Ann Davison, Doesn't Mince Words
City Attorney Evans Charts a New Course on Drug Prosecutions
2026 Forecast: Will Katie Wilson Save Seattle with Pragmatism?
Is SPD contract a "complete failure" of police reform by current city leadership?
Executives Gone Wild? Seattle, King County Shakeups
Mayor-Elect Katie Wilson says Seattle Nice is “Special”
A Political Earthquake: Katie Wilson’s Huge Mayoral Win and the Price of Pizza
Sum and Substance of Seattle's Election Results
Closing Attacks in Seattle Mayor’s Race
Nicest City Attorney Debate
CoLEAD Brings a New Approach to 12th and Jackson
Food Fight: Urban Progress and Its Discontents
Budget Bickering and Buttigieg Backing
Sales Tax Scheming and Seattle’s Shifting City Scape
Should Seattle Surveil More?
ICYMI: Katie Wilson, Did the Left Get It Wrong on Homelessness?
Dispatch from an Urban Drug Market: A Blue City Blues Podcast Preview
Should the City Permit Another Christian Nationalist Rally at Cal Anderson?
Progressive Primary Palooza
Encampment Ban Proposal, Progressive Biz Taxes, and Why is Seattle Suing the Trump Admin Now?
Lisa Daugaard on Trump’s Homelessness Exec Order: Read the Fine Print Before Freaking Out
Primary Preview: Is the Progressive Left Back?
The Writing on the Wall: Seattle Grapples with Graffiti and Politics
Council President Sara Nelson Gets Touchy-Feely on Treatment
The Taxman (and Woman) Cometh!
Is It Time to Admit the King County Regional Homelessness Authority Is a Bust?
Assessing the Assessor, Urbanism v. Incivility, and Seattle Hates Nightlife
Special Emergency Seattle Nice: The Seattle City Council Is Un-Cathy Moored!
Assessor Allegedly Stalks, Ethics Walks, and the Culture War Rocks Seattle
FEED DROP: On this Month's "Are You Mad At Me?," We Interview Shattered Glass Director Billy Ray
Tent City Gets a Reprieve, Council Rolls Back Ethics Rules, and Kshama's Back, Baby!
Adam Smith: How Bad is Trump for Seattle? Really bad!
This Program Offers New Hope for Fentanyl Users
Prude or Lewd at Denny Blaine, Harrell Flexes His Muscles, and State Budget Axes Successful Homeless Program
D2 Council Race Unpacked, Crosswalks Hacked, and will the Virginia Inn get Axed?
Does Trump's economy spell doom for Seattle?
Developers, Guns and Money: Another Week of Council Controversies
Blue City Blues preview: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
Sara Nelson Talks Stadium District Housing, Progressive Revenue, and Involuntary Commitment
Are You Mad At Me? Episode 2: We Talk to Adam Penenberg, Who Uncovered the Deception at the Heart of "Shattered Glass"
Sound Transit Picks Dow? And Challengers Take on Harrell and Davison
Seattle Elections Heat Up and Trump Gets Punitive
Does Mayor Bruce Harrell Heart Elon Musk? Plus, Seattle Fights Over Totem Poles and Trees
Joy Hollingsworth on Seattle’s Racial Politics and Whether She’s the Council’s Swing Vote
Preview: Grading Bruce Harrell's State of the City
Election result: Did Voters Make Seattle Progressive Again?
New Podcast Preview: Are You Mad At Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
SODA, SOAP, and SODO
City Council Appointee Mark Solomon Talks Density, Public Safety, Blast Balls, and More
Did the Left Get It Wrong on Homelessness?
Seattle's Nicest 2025 Predictions
Debate: Is Seattle Ready to Go Big on Social Housing?
Who will fill the vacant Seattle City Council seat?
Blast Balls and Colonoscopies: Bob Kettle on Public Safety and the Council’s 2025 Priorities
Why all the controversy over Seattle’s annual minimum wage hike? And is Amazon’s return to work mandate a positive or negative?
All of your questions answered
Ex-SPD Chief Diaz Fired, Bus Stabbing Sparks Safety Debate, Graffiti Crackdown
Anti-"strip club" petitioners and Seattle's debate about crowd control
The good, the bad, and the ugly takes on Tammy Morales quitting Seattle's City Council
Is Seattle's council less centrist than we thought?
Dow Constantine's moving on and Seattle's surprise proposal to tax the rich
Is Rinck's win scaring Seattle city council centrists?
Is the Seattle City Council race over?
Dan Savage and the Blue City Blues podcast preview
WTF is wrong with Seattle Public Schools?
How to really help homeless people with DESC’s Daniel Malone
Interim Chief Sue Rahr's candid thoughts about SPD. Plus, Kshama Sawant campaigns against Kamala Harris
One question: Who won the Seattle city council debate?
Big debate night!
Progressives pan Mayor Harrell's budget. Plus, debate watch party!
Two Social Housing Measures Enter. One Measure Leaves.
Does Seattle Need More Drug Laws?
Is Design Review dying in Seattle?
Is Seattle's downtown really recovering?
Are SOAP zones the right way to clean up Seattle?
The Extra-Nice Post-Primary Election Episode
Is Seattle Still In Its Backlash Era?
PREVIEW: Will jailing more people fix downtown Seattle? Lisa Daugaard weighs in.
SPD's interim head Sue Rahr puts her foot down
Is Civility Dying in Seattle?
Supreme Court episode: Are sweeps the answer?
"Do Nothing" Seattle City Council?
Why are NPR and WaPo struggling compared to peer news organizations?
What should Seattle do about gun violence in schools?
Is Seattle Ungovernable?
Nudity in Seattle parks and homeless count controversy
Do you support Seattle Mayor Harrell's new overdose recovery facility plan?
Seattle Nice Live! Street prostitution, crime and drugs on Aurora Ave
$5M Lawsuit accuses Seattle police of sexual discrimination and harassment
Why was Seattle's original draft plan for more dense housing watered down?
New Poll: Is Seattle's glass half full or still half empty?
Seattle's new police contract, $1.35 billion transportation levy and the migrant crisis
Seattle Police contract includes 23 percent retroactive raise
Seattle considers changes to police hiring tests and gig delivery worker pay
Shocking presidential primary vote and Seattle Mayor's controversial comprehensive plan
Did Seattle's new council overreact to recent protests at city hall?
Mayor Bruce Harrell says Seattle's making progress under his leadership
Seattle's Sizzling Social Housing Debate
Gay bar raids, voter turnoutgate and a mistrial
Tanya Woo's controversial Seattle city council appointment
We Are In Implodes
Who is likely to get Seattle's open city council job?
Who really wants Teresa Mosqueda's old job on the Seattle city council?
Rockin' New Year's Eve special predicting Seattle's future
Seattle's Nicest Year in Review
What's next for Seattle with a new city council?
Centrists flip Seattle city council. Now what?
Will Urbanism Win Seattle's city council races?
On Drugs: Seattle council races, final stretch edition
Election fever burns hot in two Seattle city council races
Was the plan to end homelessness in downtown Seattle doomed to fail?
Will the Seattle police video scandal provoke reform?
Will Seattle's proposed drug law make a difference?
Blame game on Seattle's hotel shelter program
Taxes and drugs
What really happened, Seattle?
Seattle Election Eve Palooza
Seattle city council election flambé
Baseball Sweep Denial and D4 Showdown in Seattle
Shake up but not stirred at city hall
Seattle's drug law debate
What's really going on with King County homelessness policy?
Seattle what should we do about drugs?
Voters approve crisis center levy. Now what?
Will Bruce Harrell's Executive Order on Drugs make a difference?
Lisa Daugaard's plan for "public disorder" on Third Avenue
Is Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison doing a good job with "repeat offenders."
Sound Transit board votes to skip Chinatown and First Hill
How to interpret Mayor Harrell's State of the City address
Your questions about Seattle council races, pedestrian deaths, and more
How to vote on the Seattle social housing levy I-135
Will the last person leaving Seattle City Council — turn out the lights
Billions and billions to end homelessness in King County
Emergency Podcast: Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant won't run again
Does historic preservation in Seattle go too far?
Why isn't Seattle's Alex Pedersen running for re-election, really?
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's Year in Review
Would Seattle politics be better off without Twitter?
Why is Lisa Herbold not running for re-election to the Seattle City Council
Final budget battles amidst Harrell-ded harmony in Seattle
Election Forecast fails and Sandeep gloats about beating MAGA Joe Kent
Pins, needles and midterm election predictions
#poopgate, plus troubling news for Dan Strauss of the Seattle City Council
Should Seattle spend millions on "Unified Care Team" expansion?
Seattle's big budget battle
Harrell picks Diaz, and Seattle Nice reacts
Turbulence over Seattle plan to hire more park rangers
Seattle teacher's strike and the city leaf blower crisis
End of mayoral honeymoon for "authentic" Bruce Harrell?
Hot takes on big WA primary and Seattle City Council hijinks
Fentanyl crisis and the personal politics of addiction
Why is Starbucks really closing stores in Seattle?
Charleena Lyles verdict + Seattle City Council voting reform maneuvering
Seattle Nice takes on the U.S. Supreme Court
Police reform takes a step forward + Is Seattle's World Cup fever overheated?
Who should take blame for Seattle's sexual assault case backlog?
Should Seattle raise Amazon's taxes again?
More "cleanups" but is Seattle making progress on homelessness?
Complacency on the abortion issue and Washington State politics
Should Sound Transit let people ride light rail for free?
Is Ann Davison Stealing Nicole Thomas-Kennedy’s Policy Platform?
Seattle's rich keep getting richer and there's too much dog poop
Is a new approach to homelessness working in Seattle and King County?
Seattle TV reporter fired for Tweeting about a Proud Boys rally
Is Third Avenue Bruce Harrell's Afghanistan?
Debating Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's "Operation New Day" crime-fighting campaign
Is downtown Seattle dying?
Blue city crime debate and SBUX resolution rancor on Seattle's City Council
Seattle debates crime and punishment after Mayor Bruce Harrell's presser
Is Rudy Giuliani what Republicans in the Seattle area need right now?
Will the move to end single family zoning in Washington State destroy America?
Mayor Bruce Harrell extends Seattle's eviction moratorium just as New York’s expires
Can Mayor Bruce Harrell bridge Seattle's political divides?
Seattle Mayor Durkan's Legacy is up for Debate
Unlike the sun, politics rises in the West and sets in the East
You Can't Recall Kshama Sawant