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Roughly 40,000 ballots whip through this machine per hour, one of the first stages in the intricate process of tabulating election results in King County. Photo by Ashley Archibald

Inside the ballot processing center and its COVID safeguards

by Ashley Archibald | October 21st, 2020

From the exterior, the King County Elections headquarters resembles a drab office building, gray and in an industrial part of Renton, across from a used car dealership. On the inside, however, officials want the public to think of it as the Fort Knox of...

Read more in the Oct. 21-27, 2020 issue.

The King County Council passed a new sales tax that would fund housing developments for the county’s chronically homeless people. Real Change file photo

King County sales tax to help homeless is passed over by city councils

by Ashley Archibald | October 21st, 2020

“This unprecedented investment will provide a stable and long-term funding stream to house upwards of 2,000 people living chronically homeless, as well as behavioral health care.” — King County Councilmember Joe McDermott

The King County Council approved a new sales tax that aims to create or acquire housing for nearly half of the county’s chronically homeless population, although several smaller cities in the county have passed their own version of the tax, bypassing the...

Read more in the Oct. 21-27, 2020 issue.

Transit chugs along

by Ashley Archibald | October 21st, 2020

The Washington Supreme Court tossed out an initiative that would have limited car tab fees to $30, a move that would have hurt transit funding throughout the state. Initiative I-976, pushed forward by infamous tax-opponent Tim Eyman, was approved by 53...

Read more in the Oct. 21-27, 2020 issue.

Mayor plans to defund support for vehicle residency

by Ashley Archibald | October 14th, 2020

A longstanding program that works with vehicle residents will lose funding under the mayor’s 2021 budget proposal, but city officials hold that there will be no reduction in outreach services. The Scofflaw Mitigation Team won $100,000 in the 2020 budget,...

Read more in the Oct. 14-20, 2020 issue.

Durkan beats recall | Debate night

by Ashley Archibald | October 14th, 2020

Durkan beats recall Mayor Jenny Durkan will not face a recall vote, the Washington State Supreme Court ruled on Oct. 8, despite finding the allegations against her were “deeply troubling.” The justices reversed a lower court finding that the recall effort,...

Read more in the Oct. 14-20, 2020 issue.

Orting Veterans Village, a modular home development by Quixote Communities, will provide long-term housing to formerly homeless veterans. Rendering by MSGS Architects

Modular ‘tiny’ home villages to spread across Washington

by Ashley Archibald | October 14th, 2020

The exterior of the tiny house in Carriage Houses NW’s production facility was painted a pale green, the interior still the color of unfinished wood. The house was propped up, elevated from the floor of the warehouse. When the home is installed in Orting...

Read more in the Oct. 14-20, 2020 issue.

Local courts shifting for COVID might stay that way

by Ashley Archibald | October 7th, 2020

When the first COVID-19 case in the U.S. hit Seattle, it was like someone pressed the pause button on the region. By the governor’s order, life slowed to a crawl as in-person gatherings were canceled and restaurants closed, until the only place to find...

Staying home | Virus hits White House

by Ashley Archibald | October 7th, 2020

Staying home Housing advocates demonstrated in Olympia Oct. 2 to call on Gov. Jay Inslee to extend the statewide moratorium on evictions as the coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten the livelihoods and housing of Washingtonians. The advocates,...

Seattle budget back and forth reveals many plans and politics

by Ashley Archibald | October 7th, 2020

The Seattle City Council finished heated negotiations to reconfigure the 2020 budget to account for coronavirus-related shortfalls and an uprising against police brutality one week and began tangling with Mayor Jenny Durkan’s proposed 2021 budget the next...

Study indicates spreading out of shelter residents helped save lives early on

by Ashley Archibald | September 30th, 2020

When you check into a traditional homeless shelter, you’re likely to encounter one of two scenarios: mat-on-the-floor, where people stretch out for the night on thin mats, tightly bunched together, or the bunk-bed configuration. In the era of COVID-19, a...

Read more in the Sept. 30 - Oct. 6, 2020 issue.