Durkan Vetoes $86 Million in Covid Relief Citing Fiscal Restraint
After Mayor Jenny Durkan vetoed a Covid relief package saying it depleted the City's rainy day fund, Budget Chair Teresa Mosqueda fired back that...
Op-Ed: Why We’re Taking Burien’s Minimum Wage to the Ballot Box
Raise the Wage Burien is bringing together a coalition of workers, community groups, and labor unions to gather petition signatures to put a measure on the ballot this fall to raise Burien’s minimum wage to parity with nearby cities like Tukwila, SeaTac, Seattle, and Renton. In contrast, the city council's version is riddled with loopholes.
Seattle’s Neighborhood Recovery Fund Open for Proposals
Awards up to $100,000 will be distributed to community-led projects aimed at reigniting the local economy during the Covid recovery.
Have you ever dreamt of organizing...
Midweek Video: The Global Coffee Crisis Is Coming
https://youtu.be/6IN4ZcZAUbA
Global climate change is brewing a crisis for growing coffee. As annual temperatures rise, coffee plants are being threatened with mass withering. The global...
County May Require Shops to Offer Cash Payment Option to Protect Unbanked Residents
Shops in unincorporated King County may have to accept cash as payment if the King County Council moves forward with a proposal meant to...
Midweek Video: Will Electric Cars Kill the Gas Station?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVIYNzY-pE
Davos Amos looks at what the proliferation of electric cars means for fueling stations in the years ahead. Will they die away? Will they...
Amazon’s Moves on Kroger Turf Glimpse the Future of Buying Food (And It’s Not...
Through some clever permit digging, our friends over at GeekWire have found that the vacant New Seasons in Ballard is being refit as an...
Sunday Video: All The Ways Car Dependency Make Things Worse
Ray Delahanty of CityNerd goes through a litany of reasons why car dependency makes American society worse off from public health and environmental quality...