Morning Fizz
Friday Morning Videos
1. Seattle City Council member Sally Clark recently argued
that excessively tall zoning (or unused potential for density that fails to materialize) in places like the planned light-rail station at Roosevelt could lead to "derelict" neighborhoods with empty housing no one would be able to afford.
Setting aside the obvious rejoinder that supply and demand would dictate lower housing prices if apartments around rail stations sat empty (blogger Roger Valdez wrote , "If the developers over build around light rail and nobody shows up, the price of those units will drop. I promise. I do")—there's actually a more potent rebuttal to Clark: As it happens, the Roosevelt neighborhood has actually been plagued by derelict, run-down housing for years: On blocks filled with single-family homes.
2. A video that's getting quite a bit of attention this week is a YouTube that was funded with a $27,000 state grant from the Dept. of Ecology.
A group called Puget Sound Starts Here made a music video—called "Dog Doogity" complete with dancers and lines including: "The girl and the dog, they were fine, wow, until they left a dooty that's a crime"—about cleaning up your dog's pooh to help prevent waste from flowing into the Puget Sound.
Both the lefty Washington State Labor Council and the conservative think tank, the Washington Policy Center, aren't happy about state money going to poop scoop videos. "Yo! Dog dropped a deuce. Pick it up, pick it up, keep it green...you don't want to swim in pooh...yeah."
3. Another video that's come to Fizz's attention: A coalition of minority advocacy groups including the Asian Pacific Islander Americas for Civic Empowerment, Black PAC, the Minority Executive Director's Coalition, Native Women's Political Caucus, OneAmerica, and the Washington Minority Business Action Committee held a meet and greet with candidates a few weeks ago.
They surprised the candidates with one-minute interviews. Here's a YouTube of some King County Council candidates responding to the question: How will you ensure communities of color and immigrants are represented?
(Oddly, though, the YouTube doesn't include interviews with the one black candidate, Richard Mitchell, or Filipino-American candidate, Diana Toledo.)
It does include perennial candidate Goodspaceguy, though, who, as usual, calls for the abolition of the minimum wage.
Setting aside the obvious rejoinder that supply and demand would dictate lower housing prices if apartments around rail stations sat empty (blogger Roger Valdez wrote , "If the developers over build around light rail and nobody shows up, the price of those units will drop. I promise. I do")—there's actually a more potent rebuttal to Clark: As it happens, the Roosevelt neighborhood has actually been plagued by derelict, run-down housing for years: On blocks filled with single-family homes.
2. A video that's getting quite a bit of attention this week is a YouTube that was funded with a $27,000 state grant from the Dept. of Ecology.
A group called Puget Sound Starts Here made a music video—called "Dog Doogity" complete with dancers and lines including: "The girl and the dog, they were fine, wow, until they left a dooty that's a crime"—about cleaning up your dog's pooh to help prevent waste from flowing into the Puget Sound.
Both the lefty Washington State Labor Council and the conservative think tank, the Washington Policy Center, aren't happy about state money going to poop scoop videos. "Yo! Dog dropped a deuce. Pick it up, pick it up, keep it green...you don't want to swim in pooh...yeah."
3. Another video that's come to Fizz's attention: A coalition of minority advocacy groups including the Asian Pacific Islander Americas for Civic Empowerment, Black PAC, the Minority Executive Director's Coalition, Native Women's Political Caucus, OneAmerica, and the Washington Minority Business Action Committee held a meet and greet with candidates a few weeks ago.
They surprised the candidates with one-minute interviews. Here's a YouTube of some King County Council candidates responding to the question: How will you ensure communities of color and immigrants are represented?
(Oddly, though, the YouTube doesn't include interviews with the one black candidate, Richard Mitchell, or Filipino-American candidate, Diana Toledo.)
It does include perennial candidate Goodspaceguy, though, who, as usual, calls for the abolition of the minimum wage.
