It boggles my mind that every convo is exclusively like rents are up by an astronomical amount we have to build more. And sure we gotta keep up with population growth, buuuut maybe there’s another factor we should be considering if housing costs are dramatically out pacing population growth?
I’ve never bothered to check out the King5 website before now and let me tell you, I wont be back. Shit website giving me popups even with ublock and adblock. Guess i don’t need to read it.
Here’s a video of the troll being built, to counteract my saltiness about the shitty website:
KING5 is the worst news website in Seattle, certainly. Even KOMO — a Sinclair station, so the news is frequently slanted toward nuttiness — has a workable website that doesn’t slap users in the face like KING5.
I thought you were referencing the other post about the troll and I had both open. My bad, I agree King and Komo are both ass. Kiro is wishy washy considering they sponser mynorthwest.
@ercicacbarnett on Twitter has a screenshot of it but Twitter does not sort chronologically for non users anymore so I can’t easily link it. So I’ll type out the important parts of the screenshot.
Article 6 - Salaries
6.1 Salaries shall be in accordance with the following schedule:
A. Effective December 31 January 6 2014 2021, the base wage rates…
So they amended the previous version to be starting on January 6th, 2021.
SCL seems to be fine not using fossil fuels and maintaining a cheap rate. Shouldn’t a private company like PSE be more efficient? Or are the coal mines they own not so profitable?
It's even worse than the headline makes it sound. These are 17-year veterans, one of whom said responding to priority calls stresses him out, while the other is a trainer.
According to a case summary published late last month by the civilian-run Office of Police Accountability, it took the two officers over 20 minutes to arrive, only to report “everything looks fine” and initially write the incident off as a disturbance.
Shortly thereafter, a man showed up at Harborview Medical Center with a gunshot wound to his arm, suffered in the shooting the officers didn’t investigate, according to the case summary.
OPA found the two officers had violated professionalism standards and failed in their job to protect the community. Chief Adrian Diaz agreed with the findings, giving both officers nine-hour suspensions, which were first reported by DivestSPD, a digital site associated with the Seattle Democratic Socialists of America.
The OPA removes the names of disciplined officers from its published case summaries.
One of them, a 17-year SPD veteran, said he was relying on his experience to determine when a priority call is actually a priority. In this incident, he told OPA investigators, he was sure the victim would be gone when police arrived, which turned out to be the case.
Moreover, he said that a lights-and-siren response “heightens my stress level” and can become a public-safety issue for other drivers on the road.
“We showed up. We didn’t find a scene. We didn’t find any shell casings,” he told investigators.
The other officer, also a 17-year veteran and a training officer, speculated that they had stopped at the rank-and-file union headquarters to have dinner, take a break, get snacks or use the restroom.
He acknowledged that a “typical response” to a priority one call is: “Drop the meal, drop the report, and go.”
“[The officer] did not recall why he did not do that for this call,” the OPA case summary explains.
At least it’s a suspension without pay this time? That’s the tiniest marginal bit off improvement. But really, if one of my coworkers barged into my office to tell me there’s a life-threatening emergency, then I proceeded to finish my lunch break before helping, my ass would get fired.
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