Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee has decided to plunge into the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race Friday. His decision mixed one part dire warning and three parts sunny optimism about a national campaign centered on halting catastrophic global climate change. At the time of the announcement, before a crowd of perhaps 200 supporters at A&R […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who was staggered by Seattle based Amazon’s decision to pull out of its plans for a campus in New York City, is actively working behind the scenes to lure the company back, and even connecting with Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder, and CEO, to make a personal pitch. The Governor has reportedly had […]
Seattle Police have released a sketch of a man, who is allegedly linked to trying to kidnap a woman at gunpoint in Capitol Hill earlier this month. As per the Police Statement, the woman was waiting for rideshare on 11th Avenue between East Union Street and East Pike Street around 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 1 […]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee is expected to launch a candidacy for president. It will be the first by a Washington politician in more than four decades and the first devoted chiefly to the issue of combating climate change, with an announcement expected this week. Inslee has foreshadowed his plans running in the election as a […]
Just after the long-standing shutdown in the United States, the U.S. President resorted to declaring National Emergency for funding into the border wall. However, two of the three Republicans in Washington’s congressional delegation joined every Democrat in the U.S. House in voting to overturn President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern […]
Amtrak passengers those who have been stranded for 36 hours in the snow in Oregon arrived back to Seattle late Tuesday night. It has been a tough journey for passengers with one obstacle after another, but finally, Train 11 from Seattle to Los Angeles pulled into the King Street Station. “It feels like a nightmare […]
The Puget Sound region is trying hard to get out of the housing crisis, but it is falling woefully short on one critical aspect: affordable homeownership. Apartments for rent are mounting all over Seattle and parts of the Eastside. And some outlying communities have reportedly added tracts of expensive new single-family homes, often far from […]
Washington environmentalists and lawmakers now hope to refresh the momentum by legislation that would usher in an era of cleaner power generation after being stung by the November election defeat of a carbon-pricing initiative and repeated failures to pass ambitious climate bills in Olympia. The new House Bill 1211 would require Washington utilities to be […]
As the issue of homelessness is on the rise in Washington State, the lawmakers here are considering a bill that would provide the homeless people with a free ID card. People without any ID have a tough time renting an apartment, opening or accessing a bank account, using medical insurance, qualifying for federal benefits, like […]
A retired dog has been the bone of contention in two separate federal excessive-force lawsuits filed by men who were bitten during arrests by the department during 2016. The dog was once decorated after being stabbed during a confrontation with a domestic-violence suspect. The K-9, a German shepherd, named Kato, and his handler, Officer Eric […]
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