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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - A lawsuit filed against the City of Seattle that claims the city's rental regulations have been financially ruinous is being allowed to move forward.
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(The Center Square) - The Seattle City Council is considering a $12.4 million add-on to increase police officer staffing levels after Mayor Katie Wilson proposed halting net growth in 2028 in her first budget.
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(The Center Square) - Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is taking sharp criticism over the plan she unveiled last week to address the homeless and drug crisis in the city, using the same partnerships with organizations that have coordinated with the city for many years, even as the issues have dramatically worsened.
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(The Center Square) – Arizona GM owners may soon reap the benefits of a $220 million settlement over the illegal sale of their private driving behavior data.
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(The Center Square) - The Seattle City Council appeared willing to restore millions of dollars in funding for firefighter overtime on Wednesday that Mayor Katie Wilson slashed in her 2027-28 budget proposal.
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(The Center Square) - A business located near Seattle’s newest tiny home village fears the city will leave them to deal with the impacts of a crisis they did not create if funding falls through in the future.
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(The Center Square) - Washington Governor Bob Ferguson signed an executive order Tuesday creating the state’s first Chief Fraud Prevention Officer and a statewide fraud prevention workgroup to coordinate and expand on the state’s existing fraud prevention efforts.
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(The Center Square) - Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson sidestepped a question Tuesday when The Center Square asked whether new federal grant rules shifting away from Housing First could impact her shelter plan.
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(The Center Square) - One week until Election Day and Pierce County voters are considering several amendments, including two that would dramatically change the office of the sheriff.
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(The Center Square) - Washington’s Secretary of State says the timing of Monday’s U.S. Department of Justice press conference where federal authorities said they had identified hundreds of noncitizens that have voted in state and federal elections is “no doubt intended to cast unfounded suspicion on the results,” wrote Helen Smith, communications editor in the Office of the Secretary of State via email to The Center Square.
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