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Articles by Ashley Archibald

Golf course at gated community Broadmoor, Seattle, Washington. Photo by Joe Mabel

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,...

Read more in the Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2020 issue.

West Seattle Bridge under construction, 1983. From the Seattle Municipal Archives.

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...

Read more in the Nov 25 - Dec 1, 2020 issue.

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.

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.

Jose Martinez-Cuevas and Patricia Aguilar (center left and right) stand with their attorneys outside the Washington Supreme Court after they presented oral arguments to win overtime pay for dairy workers. Photo courtesy of Lori Isley

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.

A trash truck outside of Albert Davis Park prepares to empty a full trash receptacle Nov. 9. Photo by Ashley Archibald

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.

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.

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.

Pets take flight

by Ashley Archibald | November 4th, 2020

There is still good news in the world and it is fluffy.

Ruffly 600 dogs, cats and kittens landed at Boeing Field aboard the largest Wings of Rescue flight in the organization’s history. Wings of Rescue flies animals from high-intake and/or high-kill shelters to no-kill shelters in other parts of the country. So...

Super-chronic

by Ashley Archibald | November 4th, 2020

Seattle may miss its erstwhile basketball team, the Supersonics, but one of its greats has a cure for what ails you. Shawn “Reign Man” Kemp is opening a pot shop in downtown Seattle — the first of what he plans to be five outlets opening in the next two...