Seattle Nice

By David Hyde, Erica Barnett, and Sandeep Kaushik

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Episodes: 139

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It’s getting harder and harder to talk about politics, especially if you disagree. Well, screw that. Seattle Nice aims to be the most opinionated and smartest analysis of what’s really happening in Seattle politics available in any medium. Each episode dives into contentious and sometimes ridiculous topics, exploring perspectives from across Seattle's political spectrum, from city council brawls to the ways the national political conversation filters through our unique political process. Even if you’re not from Seattle, you need to listen to Seattle Nice. Because it’s coming for you. Unlike the sun, politics rises in the West and sets in the East. 

Episode Date
Blue City Blues preview: Why Drug Reform Failed In West Coast Blue Cities
Apr 01, 2025
Sara Nelson Talks Stadium District Housing, Progressive Revenue, and Involuntary Commitment
Mar 25, 2025
Are You Mad At Me? Episode 2: We Talk to Adam Penenberg, Who Uncovered the Deception at the Heart of "Shattered Glass"
Mar 17, 2025
Sound Transit Picks Dow? And Challengers Take on Harrell and Davison
Mar 14, 2025
Seattle Elections Heat Up and Trump Gets Punitive
Mar 08, 2025
Does Mayor Bruce Harrell Heart Elon Musk? Plus, Seattle Fights Over Totem Poles and Trees
Feb 28, 2025
Joy Hollingsworth on Seattle’s Racial Politics and Whether She’s the Council’s Swing Vote
Feb 20, 2025
Preview: Grading Bruce Harrell's State of the City
Feb 19, 2025
Election result: Did Voters Make Seattle Progressive Again?
Feb 13, 2025
New Podcast Preview: Are You Mad At Me? A Shattered Glass Podcast
Feb 11, 2025
SODA, SOAP, and SODO
Feb 07, 2025
City Council Appointee Mark Solomon Talks Density, Public Safety, Blast Balls, and More
Feb 03, 2025
Did the Left Get It Wrong on Homelessness?
Jan 27, 2025
Seattle's Nicest 2025 Predictions
Jan 18, 2025
Debate: Is Seattle Ready to Go Big on Social Housing?
Jan 16, 2025
Who will fill the vacant Seattle City Council seat?
Jan 14, 2025
Blast Balls and Colonoscopies: Bob Kettle on Public Safety and the Council’s 2025 Priorities
Jan 08, 2025
Why all the controversy over Seattle’s annual minimum wage hike? And is Amazon’s return to work mandate a positive or negative?
Jan 05, 2025
All of your questions answered
Dec 27, 2024
Ex-SPD Chief Diaz Fired, Bus Stabbing Sparks Safety Debate, Graffiti Crackdown
Dec 20, 2024
Anti-"strip club" petitioners and Seattle's debate about crowd control
Dec 13, 2024
The good, the bad, and the ugly takes on Tammy Morales quitting Seattle's City Council
Dec 05, 2024
Is Seattle's council less centrist than we thought?
Nov 21, 2024
Dow Constantine's moving on and Seattle's surprise proposal to tax the rich
Nov 16, 2024
Is Rinck's win scaring Seattle city council centrists?
Nov 08, 2024
Is the Seattle City Council race over?
Nov 04, 2024
Dan Savage and the Blue City Blues podcast preview
Oct 31, 2024
WTF is wrong with Seattle Public Schools?
Oct 25, 2024
How to really help homeless people with DESC’s Daniel Malone
Oct 17, 2024
Interim Chief Sue Rahr's candid thoughts about SPD. Plus, Kshama Sawant campaigns against Kamala Harris
Oct 11, 2024
One question: Who won the Seattle city council debate?
Oct 05, 2024
Big debate night!
Oct 02, 2024
Progressives pan Mayor Harrell's budget. Plus, debate watch party!
Sep 28, 2024
Two Social Housing Measures Enter. One Measure Leaves.
Sep 21, 2024
Does Seattle Need More Drug Laws?
Sep 14, 2024
Is Design Review dying in Seattle?
Sep 07, 2024
Is Seattle's downtown really recovering?
Aug 23, 2024
Are SOAP zones the right way to clean up Seattle?
Aug 17, 2024
The Extra-Nice Post-Primary Election Episode
Aug 09, 2024
Is Seattle Still In Its Backlash Era?
Aug 01, 2024
PREVIEW: Will jailing more people fix downtown Seattle? Lisa Daugaard weighs in.
Jul 30, 2024
SPD's interim head Sue Rahr puts her foot down
Jul 20, 2024
Is Civility Dying in Seattle?
Jul 16, 2024
Supreme Court episode: Are sweeps the answer?
Jul 03, 2024
"Do Nothing" Seattle City Council?
Jun 24, 2024
Why are NPR and WaPo struggling compared to peer news organizations?
Jun 16, 2024
What should Seattle do about gun violence in schools?
Jun 12, 2024
Is Seattle Ungovernable?
Jun 01, 2024
Nudity in Seattle parks and homeless count controversy
May 17, 2024
Do you support Seattle Mayor Harrell's new overdose recovery facility plan?
May 12, 2024
Seattle Nice Live! Street prostitution, crime and drugs on Aurora Ave
May 04, 2024
$5M Lawsuit accuses Seattle police of sexual discrimination and harassment
Apr 30, 2024
Why was Seattle's original draft plan for more dense housing watered down?
Apr 19, 2024
New Poll: Is Seattle's glass half full or still half empty?
Apr 12, 2024
Seattle's new police contract, $1.35 billion transportation levy and the migrant crisis
Apr 05, 2024
Seattle Police contract includes 23 percent retroactive raise
Apr 03, 2024
Seattle considers changes to police hiring tests and gig delivery worker pay
Mar 30, 2024
Shocking presidential primary vote and Seattle Mayor's controversial comprehensive plan
Mar 19, 2024
Did Seattle's new council overreact to recent protests at city hall?
Mar 03, 2024
Mayor Bruce Harrell says Seattle's making progress under his leadership
Feb 28, 2024
Seattle's Sizzling Social Housing Debate
Feb 10, 2024
Gay bar raids, voter turnoutgate and a mistrial
Feb 03, 2024
Tanya Woo's controversial Seattle city council appointment
Jan 27, 2024
We Are In Implodes
Jan 17, 2024
Who is likely to get Seattle's open city council job?
Jan 13, 2024
Who really wants Teresa Mosqueda's old job on the Seattle city council?
Jan 09, 2024
Rockin' New Year's Eve special predicting Seattle's future
Jan 01, 2024
Seattle's Nicest Year in Review
Dec 11, 2023
What's next for Seattle with a new city council?
Dec 08, 2023
Centrists flip Seattle city council. Now what?
Nov 13, 2023
Will Urbanism Win Seattle's city council races?
Nov 01, 2023
On Drugs: Seattle council races, final stretch edition
Oct 21, 2023
Election fever burns hot in two Seattle city council races
Oct 10, 2023
Was the plan to end homelessness in downtown Seattle doomed to fail?
Sep 30, 2023
Will the Seattle police video scandal provoke reform?
Sep 19, 2023
Will Seattle's proposed drug law make a difference?
Sep 12, 2023
Blame game on Seattle's hotel shelter program
Sep 09, 2023
Taxes and drugs
Aug 17, 2023
What really happened, Seattle?
Aug 08, 2023
Seattle Election Eve Palooza
Aug 01, 2023
Seattle city council election flambé
Jul 18, 2023
Baseball Sweep Denial and D4 Showdown in Seattle
Jul 11, 2023
Shake up but not stirred at city hall
Jul 01, 2023
Seattle's drug law debate
Jun 16, 2023
What's really going on with King County homelessness policy?
May 27, 2023
Seattle what should we do about drugs?
May 05, 2023
Voters approve crisis center levy. Now what?
Apr 29, 2023
Will Bruce Harrell's Executive Order on Drugs make a difference?
Apr 20, 2023
Lisa Daugaard's plan for "public disorder" on Third Avenue
Apr 16, 2023
Is Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison doing a good job with "repeat offenders."
Apr 07, 2023
Sound Transit board votes to skip Chinatown and First Hill
Mar 25, 2023
How to interpret Mayor Harrell's State of the City address
Feb 26, 2023
Your questions about Seattle council races, pedestrian deaths, and more
Feb 18, 2023
How to vote on the Seattle social housing levy I-135
Feb 11, 2023
Will the last person leaving Seattle City Council — turn out the lights
Feb 03, 2023
Billions and billions to end homelessness in King County
Jan 29, 2023
Emergency Podcast: Socialist Alternative's Kshama Sawant won't run again
Jan 20, 2023
Does historic preservation in Seattle go too far?
Jan 14, 2023
Why isn't Seattle's Alex Pedersen running for re-election, really?
Jan 09, 2023
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's Year in Review
Jan 02, 2023
Would Seattle politics be better off without Twitter?
Dec 17, 2022
Why is Lisa Herbold not running for re-election to the Seattle City Council
Dec 12, 2022
Final budget battles amidst Harrell-ded harmony in Seattle
Dec 03, 2022
Election Forecast fails and Sandeep gloats about beating MAGA Joe Kent
Nov 18, 2022
Pins, needles and midterm election predictions
Nov 06, 2022
#poopgate, plus troubling news for Dan Strauss of the Seattle City Council
Oct 22, 2022
Should Seattle spend millions on "Unified Care Team" expansion?
Oct 16, 2022
Seattle's big budget battle
Oct 02, 2022
Harrell picks Diaz, and Seattle Nice reacts
Sep 22, 2022
Turbulence over Seattle plan to hire more park rangers
Sep 17, 2022
Seattle teacher's strike and the city leaf blower crisis
Sep 10, 2022
End of mayoral honeymoon for "authentic" Bruce Harrell?
Sep 02, 2022
Hot takes on big WA primary and Seattle City Council hijinks
Aug 06, 2022
Fentanyl crisis and the personal politics of addiction
Jul 23, 2022
Why is Starbucks really closing stores in Seattle?
Jul 16, 2022
Charleena Lyles verdict + Seattle City Council voting reform maneuvering
Jul 09, 2022
Seattle Nice takes on the U.S. Supreme Court
Jul 02, 2022
Police reform takes a step forward + Is Seattle's World Cup fever overheated?
Jun 17, 2022
Who should take blame for Seattle's sexual assault case backlog?
Jun 11, 2022
Should Seattle raise Amazon's taxes again?
May 27, 2022
More "cleanups" but is Seattle making progress on homelessness?
May 20, 2022
Complacency on the abortion issue and Washington State politics
May 07, 2022
Should Sound Transit let people ride light rail for free?
Apr 30, 2022
Is Ann Davison Stealing Nicole Thomas-Kennedy’s Policy Platform?
Apr 23, 2022
Seattle's rich keep getting richer and there's too much dog poop
Apr 08, 2022
Is a new approach to homelessness working in Seattle and King County?
Apr 04, 2022
Seattle TV reporter fired for Tweeting about a Proud Boys rally
Mar 25, 2022
Is Third Avenue Bruce Harrell's Afghanistan?
Mar 19, 2022
Debating Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell's "Operation New Day" crime-fighting campaign
Mar 05, 2022
Is downtown Seattle dying?
Feb 25, 2022
Blue city crime debate and SBUX resolution rancor on Seattle's City Council
Feb 12, 2022
Seattle debates crime and punishment after Mayor Bruce Harrell's presser
Feb 05, 2022
Is Rudy Giuliani what Republicans in the Seattle area need right now?
Jan 30, 2022
Will the move to end single family zoning in Washington State destroy America?
Jan 22, 2022
Mayor Bruce Harrell extends Seattle's eviction moratorium just as New York’s expires
Jan 15, 2022
Can Mayor Bruce Harrell bridge Seattle's political divides?
Jan 08, 2022
Seattle Mayor Durkan's Legacy is up for Debate
Dec 31, 2021
Unlike the sun, politics rises in the West and sets in the East
Dec 18, 2021
You Can't Recall Kshama Sawant
Dec 11, 2021