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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Jacksonville and Chicago have more high-income households than in 2019, and more luxury buyers than a year ago but fewer homes for sale, creating an opening for builders despite high mortgage rates.
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(The Center Square) - Friday’s revenue forecast improved Seattle’s budget position through 2028, but offered little room to restore cuts to services Mayor Katie Wilson proposed to close a $175 million hole.
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Reporting from The Center Square
Last year, during difficult contract talks, Mead had to make a fair offer to staff without making promises our schools could not afford. That meant weighing costs, holding our ground, and saying no when the numbers did not work. Taxpayers should expect that kind of discipline from a school board.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - Seattle is still recovering from the loss of hundreds of police officers years after the COVID-19 pandemic, with 1,102 deployable officers projected in 2028 compared to 1,281 in 2019.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The editor of the Bainbridge Island Review is refusing to run an opinion piece in support of I-638 , conceding that running the op-ed could cost him subscribers.
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(The Center Square) - King County’s embattled regional homeless authority is facing a nearly $17 million shortfall due to budgeting for unearned administrative fees on grants that were never administered, a new report shows.
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Reporting from Just the News
Federal court already imposed preliminary injunction on Washington's Everett Public Schools this spring. The district board will undergo "religious liberty training" and change policies on "religious activities," ministry's lawyers say.
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Reporting from Just the News
The questions come as voters prepare for election day, which will take place nationwide on Nov. 3. Early voting in some states began as early as Tuesday.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - The Seattle City Council appeared reluctant on Wednesday to sign off on Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposal to “bail out” the transportation department with a $63.5 million interfund loan.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) - As Washington voters are preparing to decide whether to repeal the state's new 9.9% income tax, a longtime online resource documenting Washington's income tax voting history disappeared and then suddenly reappeared in the last 24 hours.
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