Who is Seattle's new Director of Housing? Earlier this month, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell nominated Maiko Winkler-Chin to be the new Director of the city's Office of Housing. But who is she, and what does she plan to do in that position? Libby Denkmann
Latino voters sue over Yakima Valley's new legislative maps ‘…in reality, Latinos are having their votes diluted in the district, because they're being grouped in with rural white voters that have voting patterns that are opposite Latino voters.’ Kim Malcolm
King County public defenders & corrections officers see eye-to-eye on Covid crisis in jails ‘The situation we have at the jails right now is kind of a perfect storm. You had chronic understaffing at the jail, which ran headfirst into this new Covid variant.’ Kim Malcolm
How the Port of Seattle is whittling away at supply chain backlogs The Port of Seattle started unloading cargo ships at a brand new terminal this week. That’ll help with some of the supply chain issues. But it won’t solve the whole problem. Joshua McNichols
Sen. Patty Murray on her push for voting rights and the future of democracy ‘I'm one who believes strongly in the right of the minority party to have a voice, but we have reached a point where the Senate is not productive, because one senator can just say, I don't want to have a debate and we don't even get to debate the issue.’ Kim Malcolm
Leavenworth has become über expensive, pricing out the people who work there When 80 percent of your local employees can't afford to live in town, what do you do? It's a question Leavenworth residents and officials are struggling to answer. When a community grows too large for it's confines, how do you keep people from slipping through the cracks? Libby Denkmann
The right-wing occupation of this tiny Washington town, and the surprising aftermath On May 31, 2020, Wil Johnson turned on his TV and began watching the news. At the time, protestors across the country were coming together to protest against police brutality and racism following the murder of George Floyd just a few days earlier. Noel Gasca
Fake SPD radio transmissions during 2020 protests ‘added fuel to the fire’ ‘If there's anything else out there around the Seattle protests, let's get it out. Let’s get to the rock bottom of what happened, and that rock bottom is also a good place to build a new foundation.’ Kim Malcolm
Omicron scrambles plans for start of Washington’s legislative session So much for the best laid plans for Washington’s 2022 legislative session. The highly contagious omicron variant of Covid-19 has upended what was supposed to be a mostly in-person start to the 60-day session, at least in the House of Representatives. Austin Jenkins
Too verbose? Seattle Council approves 10 minute speech rule You could call it the blowhard rule. This week, the Seattle City Council banned its members from droning on too long. David Hyde
