Seattle-based reporter, cofounder (with @joshfeit.bsky.social) and editor of PubliCola.com, and author of Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery
She/her, Latina, Texan
Erica C. Barnett
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New Council Legislation Could Make Your Utility Bills Cheaper
The proposal would expand the city's utility discount program to tens of thousands of additional households.
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By Erica C. Barnett City Councilmember Dan Strauss, along with Council President Joy Hollingsworth, is proposing legislation this week that…
Auditor: KCRHA's Corrective Action Plan Fails to Take Audit Findings Seriously
The city and county just approved spending more money to implement the plan the audit team found inadequate.
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Editor’s note: This post has been updated to include KCRHA’s responses. By Erica C. Barnett Clark Nuber, the firm that…
Lol - this headline is doing a lot of work to sell these big, already dated-looking giant digital billboards, which will be littering sidewalks around Seattle soon
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The US is on an extremely retrograde tear right now, and while "let the men talk first, then we'll add some ladies for anyone who's still reading" might seem like a small thing, it's jarring if you're a woman expecting to see female fans' perspectives!
I see more requests for details about these contracts than the info-lite Seattle Times article includes. I've written two detailed stories, in 2024: publicola.com/2024/06/12/a...
And in 2025: publicola.com/2025/06/25/t...
guy who stabbed his staff in the shins with forks and abused unpaid interns gets another chance
of
course
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