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The awful week for Seattle marches on.  Vanishing leadership, excuses, revisionist history, you name it.

But...

Major kudos to Chris Daniels for great reporting Thursday afternoon on the Barnes resignation, the Wilson weak, attempted to come clean, Facebook speech on botched response and possible no confidence vote from Council.  So much to process on the fly



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  1. IDC9July 30, 2026 at 6:41 PM

    Daniels is doing a great job keeping track of it all and helping viewers make sense of it. Its a lot to take in for sure.

    As for Seattle's bad week, the police chief's departure is now making national headlines. A breaking news e-mail alert from NBC News came out earlier this evening with the story. Not a good look for the Emerald City.

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    1. Rhett WorkmanJuly 31, 2026 at 7:10 AM

      I am going to second this and say something else. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7vmXiz6EDc. This is Daniels' full interview with CM Juarez yesterday, and for the councilmember to be as candid and frank as she was in some of her comments about the mayor in this interview speaks to Daniels building strong working relationships and a culture of trust with many of the elected leaders in Seattle. And you build that through a lot of experience, which he has from most of the arena beat he has been on over the years involving Seattle city government, including CM Juarez. You I don't think are going to hear any councilmember get as candid as Juarez was about the mayor with a lot of other reporters in town. KOMO/Daniels are probably going to be getting awards for their coverage and they are lapping the field at this point in coverage of this subject.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 30, 2026 at 10:18 PM

    That's it. I'm done. I am going to just pack everything up and head to SeaTac. I've lived here 40 years. This city has become a wasteland.

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