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Initiative to Require Discrimination Against Trans Public School Students Returns for More Signatures
The initaitive, which failed last year, would also allow discrimination at private businesses.
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Developers Vow to Sue Over City’s Affordable Housing Mandate. Will They Still Get Their Upzones If they Win?
A have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too scenario in the U-District.
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So You Want to Divest from DAPL. Will the Financial Industry Let You?
Conventional wisdom says putting your money where your values are will cost you. But that’s changing.
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Republicans Don’t Like Inslee’s Tax Plan. But That Doesn’t Mean They Have an Alternative.
The 2017 legislative session is shaping up like a Tom Cruise sci-fi flick.
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As Investigation Quietly Concludes, U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene Rips GOP’s Planned Parenthood ‘Witch Hunt’
15 month, $1.59 million, no hard conclusions.
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City Slaps Airline Caterer With $335K Fine for Minimum Wage Violation
Meanwhile, the minimum wage is hitting $15 an hour for some employees in Seattle.
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Federal Judge Stays Out of Police Labor Claim, For Now
“[The] complaint…does not satisfy the consent decree for judicial intervention,” says Judge Robart.
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Department of Natural Resources Deals Blow to Longview Coal Export Terminal
Coal’s last-last gasp? On Tuesday, the DNR denied a key permit required to build the project.
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Going Old School to Solve McCleary
As the session gets underway, lawmakers need a history lesson.
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So Long, Pam Roach. Don’t Forget Your Roses.
As the long-serving GOP maverick leaves the Senate, it’s progressives, not Republicans, who will mourn.
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What’s Next for the No Youth Jail Movement?
As construction draws closer, opponents prep for a final battle.
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Grant Over-Qualifies for Democracy Voucher Program
The former Tenants Union director says he’s got the requisite 400 $10 donations—and then some.
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Old Fire Station and Former Homeless Camp to Become Preschool and Affordable Housing
Fire station 39 in Lake City hosted Nickelsville six years ago. Now, Seattle’s giving it to LIHI.
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Earth 2 Trump: Cross-Country Tour of Resistance Launches in Seattle
The Center for Biological Diversity began its 16-city anti-Trump tour on Monday.
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Ellen Taft, Seattle’s Dogged Dog Watchdog, Calls for a Boycott to Protest Unlicensed Pets
This isn’t Taft’s first rodeo.
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Here Come Democracy Vouchers!
Little slips of civic engagement are heading to a mailbox near you.
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How Politics Surprised Us, and Didn’t, in 2016
Nationally few things were predictable. Locally, few things weren’t.
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Seattle Group Hopes to Stage ‘Social Media Blackout’ On Inauguration Day
‘To protest the apparent intentions of the Trump presidency and to demand that more is done to combat…
