City Inside/Out
Local issues from all sides -- Fridays | 7 p.m.About City Inside/Out
Seattle is a vibrant and complex city, and the Seattle Channel's City Inside/Out with Brian Callanan brings you thoughtful, in-depth reports and discussions about important local issues every week.
Brian Callanan is a five-time Emmy winner who currently serves as a host, producer, and moderator for the Seattle Channel, where he's worked since 2011. His career in broadcast journalism began in 1995, and includes an 11-year stint as a reporter and anchor for Q13 News. Brian won the Seattle Municipal League's Civic Award for Government News Reporting in 2016. He lives with his wife and two daughters in West Seattle.
With the Seattle Parks Department facing a $267 million maintenance backlog and the parks levy set to expire this year, parks advocates disagree over whether to support renewal of the levy or to replace it with a Metropolitan Park District (MPD), which could provide a larger and more stable source of funding. What is a MPD and who would operate it? Are Seattle`s parks being "loved to death" as some advocates claim? We visit Tacoma – home to the oldest MPD in the state – to see what lessons Seattle can learn. Joining us in studio are Seattle City Councilmember Sally Bagshaw, who chairs the Council`s Select Committee on Parks Funding; Acting Seattle Parks Superintendent Christopher Williams; and MPD opponent Don Harper, who chairs the parks committee for the Queen Anne Community Council.
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