David Kroman

@loganb There might be examples of this ending poorly but I love the brewery cluster. Gives it a guild-like feel that I like

“Industrial” zoning! Ballard is great, but urban “planning” made it strictly worse, crowding businesses into corridors in weird ways while also not preserving the businesses they were ostensibly protecting.

Seattle's business lobby hopes a former progressive firebrand from the state legislature can help nudge the city's socialist mayor toward the center. Via @KromanDavid #comments" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…

A comprehensive, clear-eyed look at the massive challenges and risks in dissolving the dysfunctional King County Regional Homelessness Authority without (again) disrupting existing homelessness services, from @stephannnnie & @KromanDavid @seattletimes seattletimes.com/seattle-news/h…

I’m old enough to remember Scott Servais bringing in lefty Robbie Ray to face him for some reason

Planting potatoes is a 4-year-old’s idea of what it takes to grow vegetables: sticks potatoes in the ground and you get more potatoes

Pride of Bainbridge Island

Also the legal holes. In this world, the cops don’t have to make a charging decision for many days and a murder suspect doesn’t request a lawyer right away

I thought this show was meh on its own, but the thing that made it feel evil is I kept getting ads for medication for the “condition” David Harbour’s character had, which made me think an entire plot point was inserted for pharma dollars

@MarinerMuse Meanwhile the NL Central of all divisions is made up of only winning teams

What a funny baseball division the AL West is

Though it is a nice reminder of how funny it is that Debora Juarez wanted to come back to this job after her fairly clear disdain for it

Hell yeah, let’s recycle this 7-year-old clip of this perennial public commenter for outrage clicks. That’s the good stuff

RIP to Joel Connelly, who I’m told passed away this morning. He was an icon of Seattle journalism, and such a defining (for me) voice of the old Seattle Post-Intelligencer and its scrappy, somewhat offbeat spirit. My condolences to his family and his many close friends and fans.

@skaushik100 Tweet the link too!

Maddening story in the Seattle Times today that plans to put a Winco grocery at a former big box store site on Aurora that has been vacant for nearly a decade have been delayed and perhaps killed outright by an environmental impact challenge from a mysterious "neighborhood group" which "has no website and is not registered with the state" and whose lawyer will only say is "made up of King County residents." Hmmm... the same "neighborhood group" also unsuccessfully tried to block the opening of a Winco out in Renton. Winco is a majority employee-owned discount grocery chain know for providing competitive wages and good benefits, but they're not union. Hmmm...

My opinion is a lot of anecdotal leads are bad, but that’s not the same thing as saying anecdotal leads are bad

Sorry to the Haberman haters but she's the only reporter on the planet who can get inside the situation room like this. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…

Jo Adell has got to be a top 5 Mariners heartbreaker

@IISwitchII Late on 86…?

they deadass gave us hal baleigh dude

20+ years of war post 9/11 and, as far as I can tell, this is the only genuinely critical movie to come out of it

Cal Raleigh had pretty close to the same start last year but he wasn’t a superstar then so no one cared

@MarinerMuse L/R doesn’t matter much with Judge so I get it. Whole plan falls apart if either of the first two people get on though

Really skeptical of using Gabe there but it turned out to be a very good decision