News Mar 28, 2022 at 12:00 pm

The council doesn’t have universal criteria for ending or extending COVID-era laws, and it shows.

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2

Worth noting that Hannah continues to drop some serious knee slappers, yuck yucks, and zingers around here. That headline slaps.

4

I like streateries, what with the neighborhood vibrancy, deemphasis on cars, and general innovation for finding new space in our city. Am I supposed to feel bad about that?

5

@4, you should feel bad about using the word "vibrancy." You and everyone else who uses it.

6

"The council doesn’t have universal criteria for ending or extending COVID-era laws..."

Nor should it. Each law addresses a different aspect of how COVID affected civic life, and times continue to change. Therefore, each law should be amended, repealed, or replaced on the merits of each action. Of course, all of this should be in context of other laws concerning COVID, but there's been no need shown for developing or applying "universal criteria" for all laws. For example: in the cases where we should have made the law anyway, but COVID pushed us to do it, then those laws should not be repealed.

(And, as @1 nicely noted, expecting this crowd to address any big picture with any degree of competence is a complete waste anyhow.)

@3: If the city, via the Council, decides outdoor seating for restaurants represents a better use of limited public space than does storage of private vehicles, the city can decide that. Each decision uses public property to subsidize private businesses. There's no great principle at steak (ha, ha) here.

7

Hannah.... News Flash: "the world isn't fair" and when you walk out the door their is "risk".

Billions upon billions of dollars, borrowed money, has been spent on covid relief. There comes a time when the public free living food trough runs out... much like socialism, it works until you run out of other people's money.

Sorry to break it to you... but the party is over. Time to get back to work.

8

what's that they Say?

The wealthy hire
the very most persuas-
ive people to convince the
middle class to blame the poor.

oh yeah

and without
Joseph Goebbels
there's no Nazi Party

10

@8 ... Let's see, now wasn't it Hitler, NAZI (national socialist party) who blamed the Jews (identifying them as wealthy, intellectuals) as the reason for all of Germany's ills. Remind us all again ...how that turned out.

Wasn't it Vladimir Lenin ....who accused the aristocrats and wealthy... another socialist .... perhaps just coincidence.

Wasn't it Castro... who accused the business class of many ills... another socialist if I recall...

All of them dirt poor.... all of them accusing in the same manner you do.

It would appear, that without you...... there would be no ignorant reactionaries on this slog.

11

There has to be someone... anyone .. that can write this column that has some drive and
doesn't want to be living in a tent. Hannah clearly does with her views... imagine being her landlord. You can't lecture people into getting their shit together. You can't tell anyone anything. Have to learn it on their own. If you can't afford Seattle....move. I don't want to live in a tent... can I have Hanna's job? Oh I'm sorry... that's the requirement.

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@10 -- irregardless
of your ad hominem
my Accusation stands
(have you No rebuttal?):

The wealthy hire
the very most persuas-
ive people to convince the
middle class to blame the poor.

even Rodger "Dodger"
Goebbels/Ailes knew this

good to see you're on
Rupert Murdoch's side

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@2 -- and bon mots!
I second your Notion.

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"It would appear,
that without you......
there would be
no ignorant re-
actionaries on
this slog."

@--Manolitos on March 30, 2022 at 8:19 AM

what's that they say:
Every Accusation a Confession
oy, that's right. manlytoes you're
Projecting -- yet Again. we're Used to it


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