Clear wins in Washington up and down the ballot

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City budget cuts police funding, boosts public safety alternatives and homelessness services

by Chetanya Robinson | November 25th, 2020

The Seattle City Council’s final $6.5 billion dollar 2021 budget cuts the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and other departments, allocates millions of dollars for community-based alternatives to public safety, replaces the Navigation Team, and expands tiny...
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King County talks golf courses

by Ashley Archibald | November 25th, 2020

A review of private golf course valuations in King County were “appropriate and justified,” frustrating some community members who see the low values as a matter of equity. Redevelopment of those golf courses to some other use would also be legally tricky,...
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Tim Eyman on trial | Bridge to somewhere | So long and thanks for all the fish

by Ashley Archibald | November 25th, 2020

Tim Eyman on trial The trial of anti-tax activist Tim Eyman began Nov. 16, a proceeding that could bring an end to Eyman’s decades-long career running initiatives to reduce taxes in Washington state. Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed the lawsuit against...
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State budget cuts loom, starting with dental benefits

by Ashley Archibald | November 18th, 2020

Dr. Wade Kendall remembers the last time Washington state had to dig deep to balance its budget. It was 2011 and the state was still in the throes of the Great Recession. Revenue projections for the biennial budgets from 2007-2009 to 2011-2013 fell in 16...
Read more in the Nov. 18-24, 2020 issue.
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Holidays, canceled

by Ashley Archibald | November 18th, 2020

After a week of increasingly dire warnings from public health officials about a surge of coronavirus cases, Gov. Jay Inslee announced the most sweeping restrictions on daily life in Washington since the original stay-at-home order in March. As of Nov. 16,...
Read more in the Nov. 18-24, 2020 issue.
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Court win with uncertain outcome for state farm workers

by Ashley Archibald | November 18th, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that dairy farmworkers are entitled to overtime pay — a decision that collapses a loophole in labor law that excluded farmworkers. The 5-4 decision found that dairy workers had extremely dangerous jobs — work made even...
Read more in the Nov. 18-24, 2020 issue.
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Mayor’s Office aims to increase and restructure cleaning

by Ashley Archibald | November 12th, 2020

The new Community Clean Teams would put 14 to 16 staff members into specific areas of the city for 40 hours a week to deal with dumping, graffiti and trash in public areas.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced a new initiative to respond to trash and debris in public spaces, but she will require help from the City Council to get it funded. In a release put out the evening of Nov. 4, Durkan proposed a $5.6 million plan that...
Read more in the Nov. 11-17, 2020 issue.
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Post-Election Day

by Lee Nacozy | November 12th, 2020

Uncounted ballots eventually dwindled nationwide last week, and Seattleites curbed their catastrophe planning that has become instinct since COVID-19 hit. People carried on, protested, tried to avoid police or lunged out of quarantine to celebrate the end...
Read more in the Nov. 11-17, 2020 issue.
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Pandemic rages on | Plan early

by Ashley Archibald | November 12th, 2020

Pandemic rages on Coronavirus cases are surging in King County and across the nation as indicators show a new daily high in reported cases in the U.S. Seattle & King County Public Health announced 517 new positive cases on Nov. 5 and 559 new positives...
Read more in the Nov. 11-17, 2020 issue.
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Clear wins in Washington up and down the ballot

by Ashley Archibald | November 12th, 2020

Sometimes, it’s especially nice to be a Washingtonian. As the rest of the country frets while ballots are totaled — results appearing in short bursts in some states, an unsteady trickle in others — residents of the Evergreen State are sitting back in...
Read more in the Nov. 11-17, 2020 issue.
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