Quantcast

Seattle City Wire

Friday, February 21, 2025

April Bamburg News

Medium downtown seattle transit tunnel 1600x900

Seattle announces 'a major funding milestone' for Madison Street Bus Rapid Transit RapidRide project

By April Bamburg | May 12, 2021

The City of Seattle has received $59.9 million in federal funding for Madison Bus Rapid Transit, a partnership between the City of Seattle and King County Metro, to construct the RapidRide G Line project, which could open in 2024.

Medium capture

Seattle City Councilor: 'This $10.4 million investment will help build safety from the ground up'

By April Bamburg | Mar 19, 2021

The Seattle City Council voted unanimously to pass legislation that provides a $10.4 million spending plan for Community Safety Capacity Building at the March 15 city council meeting.

Twitter users point out Seattle held training for whites only

By April Bamburg | Jul 10, 2020

The city of Seattle held what it called voluntary training restricted to only one race, a Twitter user revealed in a series of Tweets that included a copy of an email inviting only white employees or those who identify as white to attend.

Medium shutterstock 286648361

Seattle hosts segregated training session on 'interrupting internalized racial superiority, whiteness'

By April Bamburg | Jul 10, 2020

When CityJournal contributing editor Christopher F. Rufo learned of the city of Seattle’s training session for white employees, called “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” he submitted a public records request and broke it down in a twitter thread composed of 11 individual tweets.

Medium durkan1200x675

Durkan attributes protest violence, destruction to white men in Seattle and nationally

By April Bamburg | Jun 4, 2020

On May 31, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan took to Twitter to acknowledge that the recent protest-related violence and destruction was perpetuated by white men.

Medium shutterstock 286648361

Nonprofits, PR firm behind #SeattleForAll misrepresent information, magazine editor says

By April Bamburg | Feb 7, 2020

In response to the “Seattle is Dying” documentary by Eric Johnson, a group of prominent nonprofits have engaged the services of a public relations firm to spread a message that runs counter to Johnson’s film and misleads the public, according to an article from City Journal.

Medium homeless

Blogger: Seattle residents and the 'activist class' may be headed for a reckoning on homelessness

By April Bamburg | Feb 7, 2020

Seattle voters may be at the point of “compassion fatigue” when it comes to homelessness in their city, wrote Christopher F. Rufo in a piece for City Journal.

Medium shutterstock 286648361

Moderate city council candidates were defeated in 2019 because of a shift in messaging, Amazon contribution, says City Journal editor

By April Bamburg | Feb 7, 2020

In a Nov. 14, 2019, piece for City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo looked at the potential for victory for moderate city council candidates.

Medium homeless 1000x667

City Journal editor: Identity politics has taken over in Seattle and hides issues

By April Bamburg | Feb 7, 2020

In mid-December, Seattle and King County homelessness response leaders hosted a conference with the topic of “Decolonizing Our Collective Work.”