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With history against her, Kshama Sawant fights for her political life
The veteran council member earned 37% of the primary vote. No incumbent has recovered from numbers that low in at least 20 years.
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Kieran Snyder is shaking up the space where technology and language meet
The Crosscut Courage Award-winner is an unapologetic disrupter.
Opinion
Whose responsibility is the homelessness crisis?
It is a damning fact of our times that this question seems to have lost any satisfactory answer.
Equity
Searching for airports to host deportation flights, ICE gets rejected in Everett and Bellingham
Yakima officials say they have to cooperate with ICE, fearing loss of federal funding for the city-run airport. Cities around Puget Sound don't seem to have those fears.
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As Seattle debates what to do about ‘prolific offenders,’ some say we already have the answer
The mayor has her own proposals, but some advocates and city council members wonder why the city doesn’t simply expand its current diversion and outreach programs.