Mayor Wilson and her team sat down for an interview with Chris Daniels from KOMO4, where he asks her directly about turning the CCTV cameras back on. Like a stubborn mule, Katie Wilson refuses to budge off of her personal viewpoint that the cameras are bad, and still insists on waiting for an audit to finish. This is after an increasingly violent summer in Seattle, and after her own constituents have overwhelmingly demanded the cameras be turned on immediately and even be expanded. As for the rest of her public safety plan; our organization will break that down at a later date since there is not much in it worth discussing here. But we are already seeing pushback from multiple city council members, including a fiery response from Senior CM Juarez. @ChrisDaniels_TV

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Nguyen spoke in front of hundreds of politicians and business leaders last week, where he said: “So I want to be very clear: the progressive values in this region depends on the economic activities and jobs created by strong employers. Housing doesn’t fund itself. Human services do not fund themselves. Public safety and parks do not fund themselves. They are made possible by people creating companies, making payroll, and hiring workers, when businesses succeed, our values get funded. Economic growth is not separate from social progress.  In fact, economic growth makes social progress possible. You cannot fund compassion from an empty treasury.” That last line is the key to everything. Especially as Seattle stares down a $185 million dollar budget deficit, and as a new report from the fmr Gov. Chris Gregoire led group Challenge Seattle shows that Puget Sound lost 7,000 jobs last year alone. Seattle can remain an economic powerhouse; but it is going to require progressivism to embrace a bit of capitalism to do so. @johnhcook Link> geekwire.com/2026/you-cannot…