The Latest Politics Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. Frank Langfitt Politics Is Mayor Wilson turning off police cameras? Sort of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson made a slightly confusing announcement on Thursday: She’s pausing the expansion of scores of police surveillance cameras around the city, except in the Stadium District, where 26 will go in ahead of the World Cup. Scott Greenstone Thursday Evening Headlines Mayor Wilson partially pauses surveillance camera expansion, WA will not celebrate Cesar Chavez Day, and WA is suing the EPA over its climate policy. Patricia Murphy Seattle leaders react to Sound Transit's cost-cutting ideas for light rail The emails began flying the minute Sound Transit’s board meeting ended Wednesday. Elected leaders had just learned where the agency expects to cut light rail projects to fill a $35 billion hole. And many of them had complaints. Joshua McNichols Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" for Mar 19-22 Soundside presents the Weekend Warmup! Find all the events worthy of YOUR time off with host Jason Megatron Burrows. Jason Burrows Politics Why Joe Kent quit Kent resigned from the Trump administration over the war with Iran. Tucker Carlson interviewed him about why. Gabrielle Healy National Federal student loans will move to Treasury, further shrinking Education Department The Trump administration announced a three-phase transition that will eventually include management of most federal student loans as well as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Cory Turner Politics New law seeks to help clear up Washington’s DUI testing backlog Thousands of cases have piled up in Washington as they await state testing to confirm if a driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard Elections New Washington law reaffirms ban on voting more than once in an election A new state law aims to erase any confusion about Washington’s ban on voting more than once in an election. Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard Health How an act of civil disobedience in 1978 Denver helped propel disability rights On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit. Joseph Shapiro Prev 16 of 1649 Next Sponsored
Politics Trump is dismantling democracy at 'unprecedented' speed, global report finds Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. Frank Langfitt
Politics Is Mayor Wilson turning off police cameras? Sort of Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson made a slightly confusing announcement on Thursday: She’s pausing the expansion of scores of police surveillance cameras around the city, except in the Stadium District, where 26 will go in ahead of the World Cup. Scott Greenstone
Thursday Evening Headlines Mayor Wilson partially pauses surveillance camera expansion, WA will not celebrate Cesar Chavez Day, and WA is suing the EPA over its climate policy. Patricia Murphy
Seattle leaders react to Sound Transit's cost-cutting ideas for light rail The emails began flying the minute Sound Transit’s board meeting ended Wednesday. Elected leaders had just learned where the agency expects to cut light rail projects to fill a $35 billion hole. And many of them had complaints. Joshua McNichols
Soundside's "Weekend Warmup" for Mar 19-22 Soundside presents the Weekend Warmup! Find all the events worthy of YOUR time off with host Jason Megatron Burrows. Jason Burrows
Politics Why Joe Kent quit Kent resigned from the Trump administration over the war with Iran. Tucker Carlson interviewed him about why. Gabrielle Healy
National Federal student loans will move to Treasury, further shrinking Education Department The Trump administration announced a three-phase transition that will eventually include management of most federal student loans as well as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Cory Turner
Politics New law seeks to help clear up Washington’s DUI testing backlog Thousands of cases have piled up in Washington as they await state testing to confirm if a driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
Elections New Washington law reaffirms ban on voting more than once in an election A new state law aims to erase any confusion about Washington’s ban on voting more than once in an election. Jerry Cornfield/Washington State Standard
Health How an act of civil disobedience in 1978 Denver helped propel disability rights On July 5-6, 1978, on a busy downtown Denver street, 19 people in wheelchairs blocked public buses--which didn't have wheelchair lifts--to demand access to public transit. Joseph Shapiro