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Community Police Commission pleads for help from the feds
At a time when Seattle’s model for police reform is being sold as a national precedent, deep-seated frustrations
David Kroman
David Kroman is formerly a reporter at Crosscut, where he covered city politics. In addition to Crosscut, his work has appeared in The Seattle Times, CityLab, High Country News, Seattle Magazine and e
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Council President Tim Burgess gets a run for his money from a scruffy political outsider
If there’s one thing incumbent Council President Tim Burgess and his challenger Jon Grant share in common, it’s
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The firing of an officer: A turning point for SPD?
When Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O’Toole announced Wednesday she was firing Officer Cynthia Whitlatch, an exhale — either of relief
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Battered rent control resolution crawls its way to the full council
Although a resolution in support of lifting the statewide ban on rent control is not dead, its future isn'
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Why it's so hard to build truly affordable housing in Seattle
The Thunderbird Motel was a longtime eyesore, even among the notorious stretch of seedy establishments along Aurora Avenue. The gun