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Seattle’s controversial ‘poverty defense’ proposal stalls out

Councilmember Lisa Herbold, who first floated the idea last fall, has not pronounced progress dead, but said she has asked advocates “to work on building more support for the concept among council members...

King County to reexamine decades-old bicyclist helmet law

Members of the board, made up of both county and city officials, voted Thursday to add reconsideration of the 1993 law to its 2021 work plan. Board member and King County Councilmember Jeanne...

Can King County keep using empty hotels to fight homelessness?

Fear of cost The dark cloud that hangs over the hotel-based programs is what comes next, especially as hotels start to fill up again with paying customers. The main issue is that...

Coalition building could be harder than ever in race for Seattle mayor

“It was a really hard year for me and my family,” she said. “There’s no question about that. The level of division and vitriol I think was a reflection of how hard...

WA scrambles to avoid mass evictions as moratorium nears end

Laureano moved to Seattle from Detroit in 2018 and struggled to find her footing. She was homeless for her first year. As a trans woman, she said that when she would find...

Council President Lorena González is running for mayor

By joining the race for the seventh-floor office, González will leave behind her current citywide seat on the council, which is also up for up for election this year. A civil rights...

How a patchwork system is trying to vaccinate Seattle’s vulnerable

About two-thirds of those doses are going to white people. At the same time, white people make up just 40% of the county’s confirmed positive cases, which suggests the doses aren’t necessarily going...

Seattle’s $3M contract to research public safety under state scrutiny

The audit follows scores of complaints filed through the office’s hotline about the process by which the funding was awarded.  The audit will be part of the state office’s annual accountability review...

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