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How Seattle Council candidates differ on crime, taxes, homelessness

Woo is running to finish the term against Alexis Mercedes Rinck, Saunatina Sanchez and Tariq Yusuf. A fifth candidate, Saul Patu, told the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission he had withdrawn from...

Seattle City Council sends $1.55B transportation tax to the ballot

In November voters will choose whether to continue taxing themselves to keep checking items off that to-do list over the next eight years. City leaders are asking Seattleites to pass a $1.55...

After SCOTUS decision, WA homeless camping bans may gain traction

In a 6-3 decision split on ideological lines, the court ruled that an Oregon town’s ban on sleeping outdoors does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, effectively sanctioning the criminalization of homelessness....

Seattle’s dual dispatch police alternative is expanding citywide

The Community Assisted Response and Engagement (CARE) pilot program launched last October. The program sends mental health experts out with police officers to respond to people having mental or behavioral health crises.  The...

New tax to fund social housing likely headed to Seattle ballots

On Monday afternoon, House Our Neighbors, a nonprofit social housing advocacy group, submitted 37,819 signatures to Seattle’s Office of the City Clerk to get Initiative 137 on the ballot. That’s well over...

For older renters, Western WA’s housing boom can sow insecurity

AARP also supported the statewide “missing middle” zoning bill that legalized duplexes, quadplexes and sixplexes in all residential neighborhoods in WA. “It’s about letting older adults have more choices for housing options,”...

Inside Seattle’s political clash over equitable development money

Since the program’s creation in 2016, 20 EDI projects have been completed, with another 56 in the pipeline.Leah Martin, an architect who has worked with community groups on EDI projects, testified on...

Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz out amid controversy

Mayor Bruce Harrell announced Diaz would be stepping down as chief to work on special projects at a press conference Wednesday. The mayor said he is appointing former King County Sheriff Sue...

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