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Fact Check: The Renton Clarion Hotel has accepted vouchers for hotel rooms to assist homeless residents; while most Renton officials and news media sources were aware of this, King County Regional Homelessness Authority, which is supposed to be the overarching coordinator of homeless response, was not.
In my previous entry, I explained that Council Member Carmen Rivera wrote an op-ed to the Renton Reporter claiming I was misleading when I said the Red Lion hotel was no longer available to host travelers. (The Red Lion hotel is uninhabitable right now, and I was obviously honest about that.). She’s promoting the conversion of the Econo Lodge to a homeless services shelter, so this is a timely issue right now.
Fenced out. Renton’s once bustling Red Lion hotel, convention center, and restaurant is boarded up and costing King County $330,000 per month as they try to figure out what to do with the damaged property.
Today, I’m going to describe many other errors in her article.
Ironically, in her op-ed she says “We have also seen a decline in journalistic integrity, including fact-checking and vetting sources,.” Then she fails to vet and fact-check her one-and-only source.
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