Sydney Brownstone
Reporter, Lost Patients
About
Sydney Brownstone is an investigative reporter at The Seattle Times. She previously covered homelessness in Seattle and was a Livingston Award finalist for her work on the podcast Outsiders. Brownstone hails from the world of alt-weeklies, where her reporting on sexual assault and sex work prompted the Washington Attorney General’s first-ever consumer protection lawsuit on behalf of sex workers.
Podcasts
Stories
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Seattle City Council could lose its solution to homelessness crisis
The city of Seattle appears to be doing an about-face on the new employee head tax on businesses. The City Council approved the tax unanimously a month...
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Off with the head tax: Seattle councilmembers back off controversial plan
It only took the Seattle City Council four weeks to double-back on their vote to tax big businesses in order to pay for affordable housing and...
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PHOTOS: Hundreds of students rally to remember slain 17-year-old, demand end to gun violence
Last Friday was the last time Ryan Dela Cruz's classmates saw the 17-year-old student alive.
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At least 60 immigrant moms torn from kids jailed in SeaTac
Update: ICE confirmed to KUOW that 209 people are currently being held at the SeaTac Federal Detention Center — 177 of them women. We do not know how...
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Union Gospel Mission argues anti-gay hiring policy is religious freedom at work
Seattle has a hiring clause that prevents it from giving money to organizations that discriminate. But it also appears that the city knew about the...
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6 pictures that show what homelessness looks like in 2018
On a single night in January, more than 12,000 people were counted as homeless throughout Seattle and King County.
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City chooses three 'outside' contenders for Seattle police chief
Half a year after former Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole stepped down, today Mayor Jenny Durkan's 25-person police chief search committee announced three all-male contenders to replace her.
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Fatal gun violence looks different for Seattle kids, depending on where they live
Look at the map above. What do you notice? Each red dot represents someone 18 or younger who died of a gunshot wound in King County in the last nine years.
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Seattle could have even fewer shelter beds with head tax plan, Seattle mayor says
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan didn't veto the head tax passed by the Seattle City Council earlier this week, but in a letter to council members last night,...
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Feds can’t say this ‘dreamer’ is a gang member — for now
It’s been more than a year since immigration officials raided a Seattle-area home and detained Daniel Ramirez Medina, a 23-year-old who was a recipient...