Concerns raised over new Seattle police chief selection process Seattle’s Community Police Commission is asking the City Council to delay confirmation hearings for a new police chief until it can examine the... Patricia Murphy
Seattle's head tax got chopped. Now what? It was called a head tax, but maybe it should have been called the Robin Hood tax. Sydney Brownstone
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... Bill Radke Amina Al-Sadi Alison Bruzek Sydney Brownstone
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... Sydney Brownstone
What the Seattle City Council learned just two weeks before the head tax vote The bloom is off the boom. Carolyn Adolph
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,... Sydney Brownstone
Homeless people also want to know where Seattle's money is going With Seattle adding tens of millions of dollars to fight homelessness, people around the city want to know: Is that money being spent effectively?... David Hyde
Seattle wanted to break up with Wells Fargo. Then it committed to three more years Breaking up is hard — especially if you're a city trying to break up with a bank. Especially if the other banks aren't all that interested in dating you. Paige Browning
Seattle just voted for a shrunken ‘head tax’ The head tax is happening — but the weakened version passed by the Seattle City Council today won't address the scale of the housing crisis, some... Sydney Brownstone
A compromise on Seattle's head tax, but how will the money be spent? A compromise has been struck over the controversial proposed Head Tax by the Seattle City Council. Over the weekend Councilmember Lorena Gonzalez worked... Amina Al-Sadi Bill Radke
