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Seattle City Council passes controversial drug ordinance

The Seattle City Council voted Tuesday to approve a drug ordinance marking the end to an ongoing saga between the city, county, and state over what qualifies as a drug crime and whether people caught using
David Hyde

September 19, 2023 / 5:51 pm
To lid or not to lid: Should I-5 be covered through the heart of Seattle?

Soundside host Libby Denkmann speaks with Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development urban planner Lyle Bicknell about the proposal to create a lid on top of I-5.
Libby Denkmann

Jason Burrows

September 13, 2023 / 4:19 pm
Seattle City Council returns to drug law debate with new proposal

The Seattle City Council’s Public Safety committee has approved a new version of the drug possession law in a 4-1 vote Tuesday.
Amy Radil

September 12, 2023 / 4:25 pm
Speed cameras could be coming to a Seattle street near you
Dyer Oxley

September 06, 2023 / 1:26 pm
Spotlight back on public safety in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood

George Nguyen owns the Lam Seafood Market in Seattle's Little Saigon neighborhood. Nguyen said the crime and drug use outside — and inside — his store has gotten so intense in recent months that he's had to put up a foreboding barbed wire fence near the entrance. Now he worries the fence is driving away customers. "The last thing I wanted to do was make our neighborhood look like a prison yard," Nguyen said.
David Hyde

September 05, 2023 / 5:36 pm
Housing and parks could be built over I-5. Seattle councilmembers are officially into it

The future of I-5 is up in the air – literally.
Joshua McNichols

Paige Browning

September 05, 2023 / 5:24 pm
Seattle's City Council election gets spicy

Election officials certified the results of our local primary this week. That means we know which City Council candidates are vying for your votes. As KUOW Politics editor Cat Smith puts it, things are getting spicy in some of the races. In others, we saw some surprising shifts after the initial round of results. She breaks the results down race-by-race.
Bill Radke

Clare McGrane

Catharine Smith

August 17, 2023 / 5:04 am
Seattle City Council discusses new iteration of proposed drug possession law

As the Seattle City Council began to consider the next version of the city's drug possession law Monday, frontline workers asked for more funding to help people with addiction, and downtown property managers spoke in support of the ordinance, and mayoral staff said they hope to fund overdose stabilization cen.
Amy Radil

August 15, 2023 / 8:09 am
Seattle debates whether to expand big business tax to balance city's budget

Seattle’s business community is bristling at a proposal to expand taxes that target large, wealthy companies in the city. It’s one of several ideas that came out of a workgroup of stakeholders tasked with exploring ways to close an impending budget gap.
Monica Nickelsburg

August 10, 2023 / 3:24 pm
Should Seattle consider a high-pay CEO tax? That’s one option to fill the city’s budget gap

Today, a Seattle stakeholder group made up of civic, labor and business leaders presented some bold ideas in a new report on how the city could try and fill a looming budget gap. According to the report, Seattle’s spending is outpacing tax revenue. As a result, the city forecasts a giant deficit of around $221 million in 2025 and another $207 million in 2026.
David Hyde

August 09, 2023 / 2:10 pm

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