Aw man, now how is the stranger going to know whats going on in capitol hill

In all seriousness this sucks, chs blog was great :(

Man, that's not good news at all. It was such a good source for current information without a lot of fuss and puffery. It's really too bad that we haven't collectively figured out how to pay for information--I miss the days of full time arts and restaurant and book critics, among others. Thanks for all the hard work over the years; we're better for it. And hurry back!

Well, this sucks. Where to get local news now? They had quality reporting without garbage hot take articles.

um, you're reading a place that does local news.

@5 you forgot "used to" in that sentence. There was a time that the stranger was the place for local news. But you guys seem way under staffed and hardly break local news outside of the occasional political story. Not to say there isn't some good reporting done at the stranger, there still is, but for the last year or so it seemed like the stranger was ok with letting chs cover the ch beat, as a lot of ch stories where broke by ch blog and then reposted by the stranger.

More of the hill going to shit. They must not have provided the Amazonian crowd all that they needed or that crowd just didn't give a shit.

@5 Tricia, much of the Stranger's "reporting" lately consists of quoting the work of others. For instance, here are some examples of the "local news" I found in the Stranger just today:

"As the News Tribune put it, "For a long moment in that big tent, the audience suddenly realized these astonishing beings on stage doing amazing things are, actually, human. And they risk everything, in increasingly dangerous ways, for our amusement."

"Mayor Ed Murray most recently addressed the consent decree on a Politico podcast"

"KOMO has a live feed going here."

"Part of this trend, KNKX reports, is thanks to cheaper rents outside of King County. "

"Sens. Sanders and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) proposed the bill in the Senate on Monday, while Reps. Jayapal and Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) plan to introduce a bill in the House on Wednesday, the International Business Times reports."

If you want to be considered as a local news outlet, try harder. You can't just link to a Seattle Times article and call it news.

@8 Right on.

@5 I remember when the Stranger had a dedicated City Council reporter that covered even the most mundane shit in the best way possible. Now it seems like you're fixated on producing clickable hot takes on day-old articles from a center-left perspective. I can cruse Facebook if I want to see that.

Was anyone sitting in on the City Council meeting today? A friend posted some fancy charts about housing displacement that a local journalist would surely be interested in.

@9 and that reporter actually had access to council members and the stranger would often get interviews. It seems like more and more cm/mayor stuff is just being quoted from other news sources.

@8 you've just uncovered the Stranger's business model. They piggyback off of other publications actual reporting and then inject some form of racial/political aggrievement angle for page clicks. It's become pretty cynical at this point.

http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/04/…

This is the gaurdian getting the story and the stranger just copy some sections. This is the type of stuff the stranger did. Now local news is covered by other sources and the stranger copies sections and adds their 2 cents. You guys need more reporters, cause the "seattle's only newspapers" taglime now just seems like a sad joke :(

THE Capitol Hill blog has been a great source of news I am sorry to see it downgraded, I hope it can be revived soon - with a good funding base from its readers!!