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.
How should Seattle deal with its homeless crisis? Is a new employee-hours tax to combat homelessness part of the solution? The Seattle City Council rejected a so-called "head tax" during last year's budget negotiations and instead formed a Progressive Revenue Taskforce on Housing and Homelessness to study the issue. The taskforce just wrapped up its work, and the Council will begin considering its recommendations in mid-March. How are the city's employers reacting? Which businesses would pay the tax and how much? What other progressive revenue sources are the taskforce recommending? Where will the money go?
Guests:
Jonathan Gerig, DESC Donor
Kirsten Harris-Talley, Co-Chair, Progressive Revenue Taskforce on Housing and Homelessness
Daniel Malone, Executive Director, Downtown Emergency Service Center (DESC)
Sara Marckx-Russell, DESC Donor
Chris Maykut, Founder, Chaco Canyon Café
Mike O'Brien, Seattle City Council
Jon Scholes, President & CEO, Downtown Seattle Association
Marilyn Strickland, President & CEO, Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce
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