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#854 - GOP Majority Court Chosen to Consider Biden Vaccine Mandate
November 26, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBChallenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans. The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing using ping-pong balls, a process employed when challenges to certain federal agency actions are filed in multiple courts. The selection could be good news for those challenging the administration’s vaccine requirement, which i...
#853 - 200 Protesters Rioted In Downtown Portland Following Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict
November 25, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBA riot was declared as a group of about 200 protesters in downtown Portland began breaking windows, throwing objects at police and talked about burning down the Justice Center Friday night. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared the riot when the gate to the Justice Center detention area was damaged, although Portland police initially tweeted there was a riot. The sheriff’s office used PPB’s loudspeaker to make the declaration. Around 8:50 p.m. there were about 200 protesters in do...
#852 - Seattle plans to give City Hall Park to King County in land swap after safety issues
November 25, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBThe city of Seattle and King County have reached a land swap agreement to transfer ownership of City Hall Park to the county in exchange for 13 properties. On Friday, King County Executive Dow Constantine’s office announced the agreement with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan in a release. The swap will give King County the half-acre park, allowing it to “complete its downtown Civic Campus,” in exchange for a total of 1.35 acres of land across the Seattle area. The release states that the 13 pro...
#851 - Ping-Pong Ball Bounce Could Determine Vaccine Mandate’s Fate
November 24, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBChallenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans. The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing using ping-pong balls, a process employed when challenges to certain federal agency actions are filed in multiple courts. The selection could be good news for those challenging the administration’s vaccine requirement, which i...
#850 - NYPD Won't Bend to Criminality Like Portland, Seattle Police: Former NYC Top Cop Howard Safir
November 24, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.9 MBNew York City won't surrender to criminality like Portland and Seattle, ex-NYPD Police Commissioner Howard Safir told Fox News. The city's former top cop was responding to Black Lives Matter co-founder Hawk Newsome's predictions of "bloodshed" if incoming Mayor Eric Adams reinstates an undercover police unit to target gun violence. "What Newsome said about there being riots and bloodshed, he has a vast misunderstanding of the NYPD," said Safir, who was appointed police commissioner in 1...
#849 - Court Ruling Lets Seattle Police Proceed With Lawsuit Against Sawant
November 23, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBSeattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant has long been an outspoken voice for socialist ideals with an utter disregard for the city’s business community. She has also inserted rudeness, bullying and shoddy ethics into City Hall, which has done profound disservice to her District 3 constituency and the city. Voters should hold Sawant accountable for transgressions against civil governance and remove her from office. Ballots for a Dec. 7 recall election will start arriving in District 3 mailboxes...
#848 - Whistleblowers will help enforce Biden’s COVID vaccine mandate for businesses
November 23, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBThe Biden administration has said it will rely on whistleblowers to help enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate by ratting out businesses that fail to comply — because the federal government doesn’t have enough safety inspectors to do it. The administration is betting that informants will be so outraged by their employer violating the mandate or not requiring weekly COVID-19 tests for their co-workers that they will turn them in. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has said...
#847 - More than $800,000 in Seattle homeless funds intended for Mary’s Place shelter may have been stolen
November 22, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBThe city of Seattle mistakenly sent more than $800,000 of funds intended to help homeless people to fraudsters earlier this year, according to emails obtained by The Seattle Times. The city confirmed in a statement that the FBI and U.S. Secret Service are investigating. Nine payments sent between November 2020 and April 2021, totaling more than $800,000, went to what the city thought was an account owned by family homelessness nonprofit Mary’s Place but wasn’t, emails between the nonprofit ...
#846 - Federal Appeals Court Calls Biden Vaccine Mandate ‘Fatally Flawed’ and ‘Staggeringly Overbroad’
November 22, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBA federal appeals court has called President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses “fatally flawed” and “staggeringly overbroad,” arguing that the requirements likely exceed the authority of the federal government and raise “serious constitutional concerns.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion issued Friday evening, reaffirmed its decision to press pause on the implementation of the requirements, in another sign that they may not surv...
#845 - Downtown Seattle & Pioneer Square Are So Dangerous King County Will Escort You To City Transport
November 21, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBDowntown Seattle and Pioneer Square have become so dangerous that the King County government will now have security escort employees to the bus, train, or ferry for their commute home. The county’s Walking Bus pilot program was announced internally to employees on Wednesday at the downtown campus, located at the King County Courthouse. Two security escorts will walk employees from the courthouse to the King Street Station and the Colman Dock. Additionally, they will escort staff for several...
#844 - Two More Homeless Encampment Fires In Seattle Brings Total to Over 1,200 This Year!
November 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBIt has become a familiar sight at many homeless encampments in the city: An orange glow from a fireball erupting among the tents. On Wednesday evening, it occurred under the West Seattle Bridge and at an encampment located across the street from Chelan Café, where Jillian Meador is a regular customer. “And it seems to be spreading in Seattle," she said. "That hits way too close to home." Seattle firefighters a day earlier also extinguished a smaller blaze at Ballard Commons Park that burn...
#843 - Thanksgiving Turkeys Might Be A Challenge & More Expensive Due To Supply Chain Disruptions
November 19, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBJohn Peterson, a third-generation turkey farmer, has had customers come to his Ferndale Market in Minnesota lately asking whether they’re going to run out of turkeys heading into Thanksgiving. Everything feels scarce right now, and people assume turkeys will be, too, even though from where Peterson’s sitting, that’s not really the case. “We don’t have any reason that we should run out of turkeys,” he says. “We’re growing the same number of turkeys that we did a year ago.” That translates, fo...
#842 - During The Pandemic, Home Prices Have Shot Up Nearly Nationwide While Household Income Fell
November 19, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBDuring the Covid pandemic, home prices have shot up nearly nationwide while household income fell. As a result, homeownership became out of reach for many would-be buyers. However, affordability was a growing problem well before 2020 and the start of the pandemic. In the last decade, the median home price rose roughly 30% and incomes crept up just 11% over the same time period, according to a Bankrate analysis of data from the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Oppo...
#841 - Red-Hot Housing Market Drives Biggest Home-Equity Drawdown Since 2007
November 18, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBHomeowners are taking advantage of a global housing boom by pulling equity out of their homes at the highest volume since the financial crisis. In the U.S., homeowners withdrew $63 billion in equity from their properties through more than 1.1 million cash-out refinances in the second quarter of the year — the largest quarterly volume since mid-2007, according to data company Black Knight. Just under one in five American homeowners say they have pulled money out of their properties in the l...
#840 - The $300m Flip Flop: How Real Estate Site Zillow’s Side Hustle Went Badly Wrong
November 18, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MBOnline shopping can be dangerous, as the US property website Zillow has belatedly come to realize. While many of us wasted countless hours during the pandemic clicking through real estate listings on Zillow and daydreaming about the sort of pad we’d buy if we had deep pockets, the company was running a side-business, separate from its property searching website, in which it deployed algorithms to help it buy houses themselves and then flip them. It did a lot of buying, but hasn’t been so gr...
#839 - 150 Businesses in King County Receive Complaints Over Not Complying With COVID Vaccine Verification
November 17, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBKing County has received complaints about 150 businesses as of last week that members of the public feel haven’t been complying with a new countywide policy requiring patrons to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test, according to the county’s public health department. The new requirement went into effect about two weeks ago, and applies to bars and restaurants with indoor dining, gyms, theaters and museums in King County. The rule also applies to conferences and conventions,...
#838 - Makeshift Double Decker RV Returns to Ballard Causing Residents to be Upset!
November 17, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBAn RV that had been parked in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood that prompted concern from residents and businesses is back. Bigger and taller than ever. “This has just gotten worse and worse and worse," said Carolyn Boyle, owner of a food delivery company called New Roots Organics. "There’s no enforcement." A makeshift upper deck is being constructed again on the vehicle parked along 8th Avenue NW in Ballard near residential streets and several shops, including the Sunny Honey Company. “I ...
#837 - Due to Supply-Chain Problems Retailers Urge Consumers to Shop Earlier Than Black Friday
November 16, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBRetailers and logistics experts have warned that supply-chain problems will make certain items more expensive or difficult to obtain this holiday season. They're urging people to start shopping early, well before Black Friday, if they want to ensure they have presents — and a tree to put them under. "Supply-chain disruptions have really been impacting the retail industry since the start of the pandemic," Katherine Cullen, National Retail Federation's senior director of industry and consume...
#836 - Why Portland Has Fewer Working Cops Now Than Any Point In The Last 30 Years
November 16, 2021 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30.4 MBThe Portland Police Bureau currently deploys fewer sworn officers — 789 — than at any point in the past in 30 years, according to the bureau and an analysis of records by The Oregonian/OregonLive, even though the city added more than 165,000 new residents over that period. Why? One big reason is the city’s growing struggle to hire new cops and retain the ones it has. Ten years ago, Oregon’s largest city had nearly 1,000 working sworn officers, from those driving patrol up to the chief. But...
#835 - Liberal Seattle Elects Republican Ann Davison As City Attorney
November 15, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBIn a local election that drew some national attention, with former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders making endorsements, self-described progressive candidates faced off with more conservative business interests in a series of elections for local offices throughout the city of Seattle and Martin Luther King County. All ballots had been dropped off or mailed as of Nov 3rd but the elections will not be officially certified until later this month. Close voting results for election to the ...
#834 - Father of CHOP Victim Files New Lawsuit Naming Durkan & Sawant
November 15, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBThe father of a 19-year-old man shot and killed after Seattle police abandoned the East Precinct on Capitol Hill during racial protests in June 2020 has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging Mayor Jenny Durkan, Councilmember Kshama Sawant and others acted with “deliberate indifference” to the lawlessness and contributed to his death. The 40-page complaint filed by Horace Anderson and the estate of his dead son, Horace Lorenzo Anderson, was filed in King County Superior Court on Wednesday,...
#833 - The Federal Appeals Court Halts Vaccine Mandate For Larger Businesses
November 14, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBA federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face mask requirements and weekly tests. Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry said the action stops President Joe Biden “from moving forward with his unlawful ...
#832 - Republican Govenors Lead Attack On Joe Biden's COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
November 13, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBTens of millions of Americans who work at companies with 100 or more employees will need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Jan. 4 or get tested for the virus weekly under government rules issued Thursday. The new requirements are the Biden administration’s boldest move yet to persuade reluctant Americans to finally get a vaccine that has been widely available for months — or face financial consequences. If successful, administration officials believe it will go a long way toward en...
#831 - The City of Seattle Tells Volunteer Group to Stop Helping the Homeless Due to Being Disruptive
November 12, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBTired of writing to city leaders and getting no response, a crew of Northwest Seattle neighbors decided last year to start taking action. Armed with little more than barbecue tongs, kitchen-style pinchers, and trash bags, the grassroots “We Heart Seattle” volunteer team has since cleaned up more than 320,000 pounds of curbside garbage from around homeless camps. For that — and for helping 68 indigent tent-and-tarp dwellers with resources to stop living on the street – City of Seattle leader...
#830 - Big Blow to Defund the Police As Minneapolis Residents Vote Against Replacing The City's Police Dept
November 12, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBDespite widespread criticism of their police department and its conduct, voters in Minneapolis have decided they do not want a new model of public safety implemented in their city. During Tuesday’s city elections, voters’ ballots included a question asking them if they want to replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a new department of public safety, which would take a “public health approach” to addressing safety issues. 56% of voters (80,506 people) rejected the ballot quest...
#829 - Federal Reserve starts deliberations with US stimulus pullback expected
November 11, 2021 12:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBThe Federal Reserve began its two-day policy meeting on Tuesday, opening deliberations that are expected to see it announce a pull back of the stimulus it put in place to support the US economy at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Central bankers have clearly telegraphed plans to slow their massive monthly bond buying program that helped stave off a financial collapse as the world's largest economy reeled from the pandemic damage in March 2020. But the tougher question facing members of ...
#828 - Seattle pro-police candidates lead progressives in races a year after CHOP
November 11, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBFormer Seattle City Council President Bruce Harrell, who ran on a pro-police message, led the returns in the race for Seattle mayor by nearly 30 points against progressive M. Lorena González, the current president, late Tuesday. Harrell told FOX 13 in Seattle Tuesday he thought his message resonated with voters. "I’m not a status quo politician, they want the homeless issue addressed with a sense of urgency, they want effective policing …biased-free policing, so we feel very good about th...
#827 - Ballard Starbucks closes as nearby businesses deal with safety concerns
November 10, 2021 12:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MBAs complaints about crime and safety issues stack up in Ballard, a prominent Starbucks location has suddenly closed in the heart of the neighborhood. A Starbucks spokesperson told KOMO News the company wants to update the location to make it more welcoming. People in the neighborhood said workers at the Starbucks at 2200 NW Market Street felt threatened and demanded better security. Ballard Health Club is just below the coffee shop and Pat Gilbrough the gym owner has been hearing about the...
#826 - Ballard encampment fire breaks out as voters drop off ballots
November 10, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 13.9 MBThis election, voters are making clear that homelessness is their top issue. No matter who they voted for, voters say they are unhappy with the city’s current homelessness response. “Increased crime and homelessness,” said Crystal Rutherford, a Seattle voter, about her top concerns. “Things with the unhoused people who are in Seattle. Having access to equitable housing,” said Meena Mahmood, another Seattle voter. Next to the Ballard drop box, unhoused neighbors camp feet away. The drop bo...
#825 - Candidates Who Are Seen As Progressive Can't Count On Their Seats Anymore Not Even In Seattle
November 09, 2021 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBEven before election results appeared on the big screen at presumptive mayor-elect Bruce Harrell’s campaign party Tuesday night, the mood in the room—a cavernous upstairs event space overlooking Second Avenue downtown—was jubilant. The campaign for mayor has been unusually ugly, and the candidates’ dislike for each other has been palpable. A late-breaking dispute over a González ad that the Harrell campaign denounced as “racist” didn’t help González’s campaign, but it’s hard to attribute a ...
#824 - 'Defund the police' loses big in Democratic cities nationwide
November 09, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBVoters in Democratic cities nationwide Tuesday soundly rejected measures to defund the police and elected candidates who campaigned strongly on issues of crime and law enforcement. Eric Adams, a former NYPD captain who easily won the New York mayoral race, had presented a nuanced message regarding issues of law enforcement. He had spoken out against injustices in the department and advocated for Black officers when he was a cop, but he did not support defunding police by reallocating money ...
#823 - Southwest Airlines probing pilot's use of anti-Biden phrase on plane's public address system
November 08, 2021 12:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBSouthwest Airlines said Sunday it's conducting an internal investigation after one of its pilots used a phrase that's become a stand-in for insulting President Joe Biden during the pilot's greeting to passengers over the plane's public address system last week. The airline announced its investigation after The Associated Press reported the incident in a story about the growing use of the phrase "Let's go, Brandon," an aphorism in conservative circles for a vulgarity targeting Mr. Biden. Th...
#822 - Lawsuit filed by mother of man killed during CHOP anti-police protests dismissed by judge
November 08, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBA civil-rights lawsuit filed by the mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot during last year’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) has been dismissed by a federal judge, who concluded the city did not create a dangerous situation for the young man when police abandoned the department’s East Precinct during the unrest. In formally dismissing the lawsuit Monday, U.S. District Judge John Coughenour ruled that Donnitta Sinclair, the mother of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, could not show t...
#821 - Zillow to Shut Down Zillow Offers and Lay Off 25% of Company
November 07, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBThe news is the latest in an abrupt turn of fortune for the Seattle-based company's iBuying service. The move is sure to have ripple effects for housing markets across the U.S., as Zillow has purchased thousands of homes through its Zillow Offers program. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. https://www.bizjournals.com/losangeles/news/2021/11/02/zillow-shutting-down-zillow-offfers.html Suppo...
#820 - Gov. Inslee Lets Eviction Moratorium Expire on Sunday
November 06, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MBAfter more than 18 months of pandemic-driven eviction limits, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he will allow the latest version of Washington’s eviction moratorium to expire on Sunday. That move will open the door for an influx of new eviction cases and test key tenant protections for the first time since the pandemic upended the legal process last year. “We have to have some end to the moratorium. You can’t have an economy ultimately where just nobody pays rent,” Inslee said at a press c...
#819 - Seattle Fire turns units offline, spends hundreds of thousands in overtime
November 05, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBSeattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate has caused an historic staffing crisis within the Seattle Fire Department. SFD is routinely turning units offline due to a lack of staff. The department is leaning on significant overtime hours to fill open 24-hour shifts. Not only does this lead to staff burnout, but SFD is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in the process. But it’s still not enough. From engines to aid cars, the department can’t find enough staff to fill vacanc...
#818 - Seattle to offer hiring bonuses of up to $25K to attract more police officers, 911 dispatchers
November 05, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBAs hundreds of unvaccinated city employees are placed on leave or facing termination, the city of Seattle will start offering hiring bonuses to Seattle Police Department and 911 dispatch hires to address “critical ongoing staffing challenges,” Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office said late Friday. Durkan announced an emergency order that would provide hiring bonuses of up to $25,000 for laterally hired and $10,000 for newly hired officers and staff to the SPD and the Community Safety and Communicat...
#817 - Rent Growth Is Fostering Big Demand for Bridge Loans
November 04, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBValue-add apartment investors are back in action, and they are driving a boom in the bridge lending market. It’s all thanks to the great migration during the pandemic. As people traded urban living for secondary markets, including tech hubs, apartment rents in small metros and suburban markets climbed to record heights—and the trend hasn’t stopped in 2021. “Rent growth has supported transitional business plans where sponsors are buying properties with the idea of investing additional capita...
#816 - California is Suing Kanye West's Yeezy Brand for Failing to Ship Orders
November 04, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBKanye West's apparel brand Yeezy was hit by a lawsuit from the State of California on Friday, alleging illegal shipping delays. California says Yeezy "repeatedly violated" the state's business code "by failing to ship items within thirty days and failing to provide adequate delay notices to California consumers, or provide an offer of a refund," according to the lawsuit. California's business code states that if a company does not ship products ordered online within a 30-day timeframe, i...
#815 - Seattle motel owner facing obstacles in attempt to evict squatters from crime ‘hot spot’
November 03, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBAaron Cunningham had no idea the nightmare he was signing up for when he agreed to lend around $1.6 million to the owner of two distressed properties — an 11-unit motel and an adjacent, three-story apartment building — on Aurora Avenue North. Cunningham is the founder and CEO of Inland Capital, a Spokane-based private money lender that typically provides short-term loans to real estate investors to rehabilitate and rebrand their properties. It wasn’t until after the properties’ owner defau...
#814 - California gas prices are sky high, with one town charging almost $8 a gallon
November 03, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBIt's not your imagination. California, like the rest of the nation, is paying more at the pump. Prices are so high — and consumers are so perplexed — that a Google search of “Why are gas prices going up?” has spiked this month. Likewise, people are pleading: “When are gas prices going down?” which has also been trending on Google. The average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $4.54 in California, which is about $1.16 higher than the national average, according to data from...
#813 - Governor Inslee to mandate COVID vaccination for all private businesses
November 02, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBThe Washington Department or Labor and Industries (L&I) filed an emergency rulemaking package last week extending emergency powers to Democrat Governor Jay Inslee. This package, which is an extension of current mandates, grants Inslee the ability to enforce COVID vaccine mandates on all private businesses in the state of Washington, according to elected officials. Washington state house representatives Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen) and Jesse Young (R-Gig Harbor) released a statement on Monday cond...
#812 - San Francisco families no longer 'feel safe,' hire private security amid crime spree
November 02, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBMore than 150 families living in San Francisco have hired private security to patrol their streets amid brazen property crimes, with some saying they no longer feel safe in their own neighborhood. "We don’t feel safe in our neighborhood," one local resident told CBS SF. "And we have an alarm, we have cameras on our property, but we want the extra security of having someone have eyes on our place." The local resident and other families hired patrol special officer Alan Byard to help patrol...
#811 - Is Downtown Seattle Poised for a Real Estate Comeback?
October 31, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.5 MBA LOT OF TRENDS that have been going on since pandemic lockdowns first started are continuing: A central location is less of a priority, and suburbs are heating up more than ever. But as amenities return to denser, urban areas and some return to offices, downtown condos are back on the rise—and the market is likely only going to get more competitive from here. The story is not entirely straightforward, and won’t be for a while. Since sales are reliably different each month of each year, yea...
#810 - Spokane County Sheriff's Office Recruiting Pitch: No Vaccine Required
October 30, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThe Spokane County Sheriff's Office is looking to hire deputies, and its recruitment strategy includes telling potential applicants that they do not need a COVID-19 vaccine to work. "NO Mandatory Vaccinations Required" is displayed in the middle and end of the 30-second video advertisement on Twitter at twitter.com/SpokaneSheriff. Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich said those parts of the ad are not intended to attract unvaccinated law enforcement officers, such as the 74 Washington State Patrol troo...
#809 - King County Set to Purchase Long-Troubled City Hall Park Near Courthouse
October 29, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBKing County is ready to take the lead on revitalizing a park that for years had left courthouse workers terrified. Homeless campers had taken over City Hall Park, which is adjacent to the King County Courthouse, until the mounting crime and violence led to a sweep this summer. The King County Council voted 7-2 this week to acquire the park from Seattle. However, this is more than just a change of ownership. County leaders also plan to tackle the root problems behind the public safety issue...
#808 - Seattle cops and firefighters feed homeless after getting fired for refusing vaccine
October 29, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBSeattle police and firefighters who are out of jobs for refusing to comply with Washington's vaccine mandate were seen feeding the homeless in video spreading on social media. "Seattle firefighters and Seattle police officers that were fired for not complying with the vaccine mandate are out feeding the homeless," the Post Millennial tweeted Tuesday, accompanied by video footage of the scene. Video footage from Tuesday also shows dozens of the former cops and firefighters walking up the ...
#807 - Seattle homeowner sells rental, says he doesn’t want to ‘be a landlord here’
October 28, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBThere was a Seattle home listing that was brought to the attention of the Dori Monson Show in which the person who listed the home, and is a landlord, said they’re selling it with their tenant it in. “Personally, I’m not interested in being a landlord in our little communist corner of the country anymore when you no longer really own the property you paid for and took the risk to own,” the post says, in part. The person who listed this house is attorney Lincoln Beauregard. He says Seattle ...
#806 - Why Is Zillow Pumping the Brakes on House Flipping?
October 28, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 24.1 MBHome prices are so high even Zillow (NASDAQ: Z) (NASDAQ: ZG) is throwing in the towel. Zillow just announced it will cease buying homes through its Zillow Offers business, which operates as an iBuyer, or instant buyer. In the second quarter, Zillow bought 3,800 homes and just announced it will not buy any more for the rest of the year. Zillow will honor its commitment, however, to buy all the homes currently under contract. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and R...
#805 - 67 Troopers, 6 Sergeants, 1 Captain Leave Washington State Patrol Over Vaccine Mandate
October 27, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBAs of Monday, 127 individuals had separated from employment at the Washington State Patrol because of the coronavirus vaccine mandate, WSP said in a statement released early Tuesday. Among them are 53 civil servants and 74 commissioned officers: 67 troopers, 6 sergeants, and 1 captain, according to the statement. “We will miss every one of them,” said Chief John R. Batiste in the statement. “I truly wish that you were staying with us. You have my utmost appreciation for the hard and succes...