The seams of running a city under the stress of a pandemic for two years were on full display Tuesday when Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell remotely delivered the first minute of his State of the City speech on mute.
After correcting the audio glitch, the mayor addressed a spectrum of topics, including: the next steps of the city’s pandemic response as King County reports consistently declining COVID case rates; balancing the paradox that is police reform as violent crime reaches unprecedented heights in King County; finding new opportunities to coordinate the city’s homelessness response via uniform thresholds and metrics for reporting results; and public-private partnerships to create tools to
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