After years of pushing, County backtracks on jails

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Book details how to avoid car camping tickets

by Ashley Archibald | August 12th, 2020

No one likes to get parking tickets. They’re expensive, inconvenient and can result in court and towing costs if not dealt with. But when your car is also your home? Then, tickets can be downright dangerous. A team of students, a professor and vehicle...
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Chalk it up for love

via Mark White | August 12th, 2020

More than 50 community and Black Lives Matter members turned out to a “Chalk About Love” event in Shoreline Aug. 6 to show support for Kailyn Jordan, 13, and her family, who have allegedly been the recipients of a series of racially motivated threats...
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A sad goodbye | March for justice

by Ashley Archibald | August 12th, 2020

A sad goodbye People gathered in Auburn on Aug. 6 to mourn Jesse Sarey — killed at the hands of an Auburn police officer — and demand answers and justice. Sarey was 26 years old, the son of immigrants from Cambodia and a foster son to Elaine Simons, an...
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Budget fallout

by Ashley Archibald | August 12th, 2020

City Council budget cuts force dramatic SPD response

The Seattle City Council cut millions out of the Seattle Police Department’s (SPD) 2020 budget over the objections of Mayor Jenny Durkan and Chief Carmen Best Aug. 10, capping off months of tense negotiations and terse, public exchanges. Within hours of the...
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Rally demands public education changes

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

It was sunny and hot the afternoon of July 31, the kind of weather that Seattleites wait all year for but the coronavirus has largely ruined. That didn’t stop more than 100 people from gathering in the plaza of the Rainier Beach Community Center — masked...
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Benefits gap

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

Congress allowed a supplemented unemployment benefit to expire at the end of July, taking $600 per week out of the pockets of jobless Americans struggling to find work in the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. The enhanced unemployment...
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Fights heat up in budget exchanges over funds for COVID and police

by Ashley Archibald | August 5th, 2020

Promises to defund the Seattle Police Department (SPD) by half and provide coronavirus relief to households in need may be temporarily scuppered in a dynamic period of negotiations as the City Council was forced to contend with the limits of its own...
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In step with the Oromo of Ethiopia

via Jon Williams and Lee Nacozy | July 29th, 2020

Members of the Ethiopian Oromo community in Seattle march on Yesler Way toward downtown July 24 in support of Black Lives Matter and solidarity against human rights violations in Ethiopia. Oromo people have been oppressed in their native land for...
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Weekend weary

by Ashley Archibald | July 29th, 2020

Weekend protests turned violent on July 25 and 26 as demonstrators clashed with police on Seattle streets in what police would dub a riot. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) reported in the afternoon of July 26 that 57 officers had been injured and 47...
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After years of pushing, County backtracks on jails

by Ashley Archibald | July 29th, 2020

King County Executive Dow Constantine announced his intent to close the county’s adult and youth detention facilities, a win for community advocates who have been fighting the carceral system and pushing for alternatives to incarceration. The county reduced...
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