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Teresa Mosqueda, the at-large Seattle City Councilmember serving in her sixth year in office and as the council’s budget chair, has announced that she will run for King County Council District 8 – which includes Burien – in an effort to replace outgoing Councilmember Joe McDermott. Mosqueda is a Democrat and West Seattle resident. In her announcement, Mosqueda cited the growing regional need to address displacement and build workforce housing, invest in public health and behavioral health, and support for … Read More

If this election cycle goes the way City Council Member Teresa Mosqueda wants it to go, then Seattle will need to need to find another progressive workhorse who can win citywide sometime in the not-too-distant future. This morning, she announced her campaign for King County Council District 8, the seat Council Member Joe McDermott plans to vacate at the end of his term. She's coming in swinging with nearly 90 endorsements and a bag of legislative accomplishments from her 5+ … Read More

After five years as one of the Seattle City Council‘s two at-large members, North Delridge resident Teresa Mosqueda says she feels a “pull” toward a different role in local government – that of King County Councilmember. Mosqueda announced this morning that she is campaigning for the seat that District 8 County Councilmember Joe McDermott is leaving after more than a decade. The newly remapped district stretches from downtown Seattle to Burien, also including West Seattle, White Center, and Vashon and … Read More

Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda says she hears the “pull” of King County Council and is running for the District 8 seat that Joe McDermott will be vacating with his retirement. The County Council could be an ideal spot to focus on solutions to the behavioral health crisis, to the housing crisis, and for a struggling transit network, she said as made the media rounds today. “Working families need round-the-clock transit – we need to reimagine that,” Mosqueda told West … Read More

Seattle Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda will run for a seat on the King County Council this year. Mosqueda told KUOW that she hopes to bring the issues she has worked on at the city over the past six years to the larger county level. "I've been focused on worker protections, expanding access to good living wage jobs, increasing access to child care, building housing, but we really need to build that out for the broad and diverse population that lives across … Read More

Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda, who’s in the middle of her second four-year term, will run for the King County Council seat longtime County Councilmember Joe McDermott is leaving at the end of the year. (PubliCola first reported that Mosqueda might run for this position on Monday). In an interview, Mosqueda said she was “pulled” by the appeal of serving on the county council rather than “pushed” out of her current job by the factors—public hostility, divisiveness, and personal attacks—that … Read More

SEATTLE — Seattle City Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda announced Thursday that she will run for the King County Council District 8 seat. Mosqueda, a Democrat and West Seattle resident, seeks to replace retiring King County Councilmember Joe McDermott. In a press release, Mosqueda cited a “growing regional need to address displacement and build workforce housing, invest in public health and behavioral health, and support for working families and small businesses with affordable childcare, accessible transit, and job training” as motivation to … Read More

Make that potentially five Seattle elected officials who may be leaving the City Council. Teresa Mosqueda, one of two at-large council members, will seek a vacant position on the Metropolitan King County Council in November, she told The Seattle Times on Wednesday, though her current position is not up for reelection until 2025. Mosqueda, a progressive, is eyeing the seat being vacated by longtime County Councilmember Joe McDermott, who represents the county’s District 8, which includes West Seattle, parts of … Read More

These community centers, powered by green energy, provide resources during extreme weather and double as gathering spaces during calmer times. A new strategy to help communities better weather bad weather is coming to Western Washington. Resilience hubs, a combination of climate emergency shelters and gathering spaces, serve a dual purpose: to let vulnerable people decide how and where they stay safe during disasters, and to provide space and resources as they build resilience in calmer times. Resilience hubs have been … Read More