Carbon WA, a grassroots campaign to put a carbon tax on the 2016 state ballot, will file 350,000 petition signatures…
After nine months and 350,000 signatures, and about a week before the deadline to submit those signatures, the organizers behind…
While researching the upshot of Mayor Murray’s attempt to shut down hookah lounges earlier this year, I remembered a claim…
Sharon Maeda is on TV. The date is August 3, 2015. The Seattle activist and former White House staffer is…
Saturday night, hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists marched through Seattle streets from a little after 6 p.m. until just…
Social justice advocates are raising a stink about the effects of a proposed smoking ban on Seattle’s poor. Seattle Parks…
Wednesday, Councilmember Bruce Harrell called Seattle police’s response to alleged violence by anti-capitalist May Day protesters “idiotic.” In response, Chief…
Homeless in Seattle? You’d better have a good lawyer. That’s the upshot of a series of new reports out of…
Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach ball. The rest of his body is submerged…
Seattle Councilmember Mike O’Brien’s head floats atop Elliott Bay like a beach ball. The rest of his body is submerged…
After two tense rounds of voting and discussion, the Seattle City Council today voted 5 to 3 to appoint John…
At the intersection of Fairview Avenue North and Denny Way in December, Jorge Torres had gotten a little way ahead…
Rent control. Linkage fees. City bonds. Building over parking lots. When you pack the Seattle City Council chambers full of…
And then there were eight—applicants, that is, to fill the empty seat on the Seattle City Council. When Sally Clark…
Photo by Casey Jaywork Yesterday, hundreds of labor activists—along with Seattle City Councilmembers Mike O’Brien and Kshama Sawant—marched through Seattle’s…
In case you missed it: Sally Clark quit the Seattle City Council last week to go to work for the…
Last month, British music labels Howling Owl Records and Sonic Cathedral put up a controversial blog post proclaiming that “Record…
Earlier today, over the objections of homeless encampment residents and with the praise of human services providers, the Seattle City…
“Three hundred more tents means that at least 300 more people will have shelter,” says Roger Franz. The adviser to,…
Last month, British music labels Howling Owl Records and Sonic Cathedral put up a controversial blog post proclaiming that “Record…
