Positive spin says that this is an opportunity for solar to fill late summer gap (and these figs do ignore off-grid/rooftop). But pretty skeptical that this is a big opportunity, climate models can barely tell whether annual hydro gen will go up or down, irradiation in Sep/Oct is a bigger lift.

Yeah, hydro situation is interesting. On demand side, should see relatively less in the winter, relatively more in the summer.

Hydro supply is less than demand for both winter and summer currently, but for the former, that may change in the future, w/ latter gap growing. Data is pulled from EIA:

The reason to levy taxes against "tech workers" is simply because they have the ability to pay due to their high salaries.

For folks outside the labor market, the tech boom in Seattle has just meant higher costs without seeing commensurate benefits. Policy has to intervene to "lift all boats."

Presumably though he’s going to be Exec until the inevitable Governor/Senator run, though

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This is correct, the car was coming up 55th. The bike lanes that would have been installed would not have changed anything there.

To me, the most frustrating part of the episode is that that “compromise” just ended up worse than the status quo ex-ante.

South of 65th St, they literally just removed parking to widen travel lanes. They somehow made it worse for kids walking to school, bikers, *and* residents wanting parking!

Is there a reason why they would be turned off?

Katie Wilson "identifying as a Socialist" really says more about how Seattle voters view Socialism than it does about how she will actually govern.

The platform she actually ran on is/was much more moderate than, say, Lorena Gonzalez's 2021 platform.

For sure. There will be many odd coalitions that break up these two blocks!

The last two years of the Harrell administration saw the Mayor pushing back against the excesses of a centrist-dominated council - with little getting done.

For Wilson to break the stalemate and make progress, she'll need to put forward an agenda both factions on the Council can live with.

Both Wilson and Harrell broadly "ran to the center" of the Seattle electorate. For Wilson, that meant distancing herself from past comments on public safety issues and past views on homelessness. For Harrell, that meant a series of labor-friendly contracts and tax-positive policy pushes.

Yeah. Close enough that this is going to take a while, not so close that the final outcome is really all that in question.

I always enjoy the people who when you show them one graph, they ask for a different one, then you show them that and they ask for a different one.

Eventually need to do 4 hours of data cleaning to give a 300 follower rando the 18th graph that will show what is REALLY going on.

Also, many of these late votes are just from the ballot drop boxes. This system surely saves the County lots of money, but there isn't really any fundamental reason why all the drop box votes can't be counted on election day.

Yeah she probably ends up just a few hundred votes ahead