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#754 - 60,000 Seattle Area Renters are Behind on Rent as Eviction Moratoriums Near Expiration
September 28, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBUp until now, renters who’ve been struggling financially have at least had some peace of mind. Even though many have lost employment or had their hours reduced during the pandemic, they mostly haven’t had to have to worry about losing their home. That’s because of eviction moratoriums. There was a federal freeze on evictions, with some exceptions, which ended July 31. Washington state also enacted a moratorium, as did the city of Seattle. Both had been set to expire in June, but were extend...
#753 - Will President Joe Biden’s Vaccination Requirements Hold Up in Court?
September 27, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBWith the national coronavirus vaccination effort stalling amid hesitancy among roughly one-third of Americans, President Joe Biden has announced tougher measures aimed at getting more shots in arms and the delta variant under control. On Sept. 9, Biden set out three major steps to tighten vaccination requirements: - A mandate for federal employees to be vaccinated, with limited exceptions and no fallback option of undergoing regular testing. A separate mandate would cover federal contract...
#752 - Criminal Indictment Imminent for Former Boeing 737 MAX Chief Technical Pilot, Report Says
September 27, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBFederal prosecutors plan to criminally indict Mark Forkner, the former Boeing 737 Chief Technical Pilot who is alleged to have deceived aviation regulators and airlines about a critical new flight control system on the 737 MAX, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Bringing Forkner to trial could shed more light on why the flaws in the MAX flight controls that killed 346 people in two crashes were overlooked during certification. In a Deferred Prosecution Agreement with the government i...
#751 - Washington State Workers Are Getting Exemptions to Avoid COVID Vaccine — But Will They Keep Jobs?
September 26, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBWashington government agencies are granting hundreds of religious and medical exemptions for state workers who don’t want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. But so far, agencies like the Washington State Patrol have granted just a handful of accommodations that would allow workers exempted from getting the vaccine to keep their jobs by working in a position or schedule that protects others from potential infection. Those clashing data points highlight the tensions over Gov. Jay Inslee’s order th...
#750 - Investors Brace For Great Fall in China with Looming $80 Million Bond Pay for China Evergrande
September 25, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBInternational investors that have been piling into China in recent years are now bracing for one of its great falls as the troubles of over-indebted property giant China Evergrande come to a head. The developer's (3333.HK) woes have been snowballing since May. Dwindling resources set against 2 trillion yuan ($305 billion) of liabilities have wiped nearly 80% off its stock and bond prices and an $80 million bond coupon payment now looms next week. read more What happens then is unclear. Ban...
#749 - Florida Landlord Requiring Proof of Vaccinations from Tenants
September 24, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MBA Florida landlord will require all new and existing tenants show proof of vaccination to reside in his buildings. As of Aug. 15, Santiago Alvarez, who owns eight apartment buildings in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, will mandate that tenants prove they have received at least an initial COVID-19 vaccination before renewing their lease, according to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “You don’t want to get vaccinated? You have to move,” 80-year-old Alvarez told The Washington Post. “And if...
#748 - Parked Double-Decker RV Stirs Anger, Frustration in Seattle's Ballard Neighborhood
September 23, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBSeattle is currently experiencing a building boom with new high-rises going up throughout the city but a parked RV in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood that has added a makeshift second story has shocked people like Alex Hardy who live or work in the area. "Over the weekend they put up walls," said Hardy, referencing the vehicle on 8th Avenue NW that has . "It’s insane." Hardy works at Camco Electric, which is parked across the street from the RV which has added a top floor on its roof. The v...
#747 - South Dakota Gov Will Take Biden To Court Over Covid Vaccine Mandate
September 23, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 13.1 MBLast week, President Joe Biden claimed “this is not about freedom or personal choice” regarding COVID-19 vaccinations. The value of personal responsibility far outweighs government mandates, especially as we learn more about COVID-19, the vaccine and therapeutic treatment options. The Constitution grants public health authority to the states. We will not be mandating COVID-19 vaccinations in South Dakota. The Biden administration has no business forcing vaccinations on the American people t...
#746 - Thousands of Washington State Workers Seek Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
September 22, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBAt least 8% of Washington state government workers subject to Gov. Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate have so far requested medical or religious exemptions, highlighting the breadth of resistance to the order. As of Tuesday afternoon, at least 4,799 exemptions have been filed by workers at 24 state agencies in the governor’s executive Cabinet, according to spokespeople. The Cabinet includes most of the large agencies under Inslee’s purview, but doesn’t include smaller state agencies also...
#745 - Businesses Call on City to Prioritize Safety as Homeless Camp Fires Explode Across Seattle
September 22, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBOver the last four days, there’s been an explosion of encampment fires across Seattle. From Ballard to downtown to even the side of Interstate 5. But in the heart of South Lake Union, at Bite Society, a packaged foods and gift basket business another line of work is underway, which has come unexpectedly. “We've put out fires here in the back in the camp with extinguishers,” said Lendy Hensley who is the co-owner of the business. Hensley adds, in fact, many times at what’s become a danger...
#744 - More Fallout From How We’re Defunding Seattle Police Backward, This Time in Pioneer Square
September 21, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBLaura Zeck owns an art gallery, which is not normally a high-risk enterprise when it comes to worker safety. But she finds herself today with zero employees who are willing to even come in to work. “They decided it’s not worth it anymore,” Zeck said the other day. “At this point I have no staff who will come down here.” Katherine Anderson owns a restaurant nearby. “We are on the brink of having to lock our doors because our staff can no longer take being on the front lines of mental healt...
#743 - Treasury Department to Plans to Award $13 Billion In Rental Aid to Avert Evictions
September 21, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBThe Treasury Department said Tuesday it plans to award the remaining $13 billion in federal rental aid to states and localities that have been the most effective at delivering the assistance, in a new bid to speed up the housing rescue. Houston, Philadelphia and New Orleans are among the cities expected to receive additional aid. State and local programs that have “substantially expended” their first round of funding and obligated at least 75 percent of their second round will be eligible f...
#742 - Richmond Employment Attorney Advises Employers to be Cautious if They Don't Require Vaccines
September 20, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBSince late last week, Karen Michael says local businesses she consults have been reaching out with concerns surrounding President Biden’s order that companies with more than 100 employees will require a COVID-19 vaccine as part of employment. The order undoubtedly faces legal challenges, but the final language of it is yet to be published. “I’ve been inundated with employers concerned about President Biden’s announcement,” said Michael, who is a Richmond-based employment law attorney and a...
#741 - The Perfect Storm Making Everything You Need More Expensive
September 20, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBA giant ship wedged across the Suez canal, record-breaking shipping rates, armadas of vessels waiting outside ports, covid-induced shutdowns: container shipping has rarely been as dramatic as it has in 2021. The average cost of shipping a standard large container (a 40-foot-equivalent unit, or feu) has surpassed $10,000, some four times higher than a year ago (see chart). The spot price for sending such a box from Shanghai to New York, which in 2019 would have been around $2,500, is now ...
#740 - Activists Upset Seattle Council Rejected Plan EncouragingOfficers to Stay With Department
September 19, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBSome community activists are not happy after the Seattle City Council rejected a plan to spend millions of dollars to pay officers 'not' to leave the police department. The incentives to recruit and retain officers comes as SPD is going through a major staffing crisis. Some activists said the council’s actions fall short of what the City of Seattle needs now. “We won’t have a department," said Victoria Beach, SPD African American Community Advisory Chair. "You think things are bad now? Ju...
#739 - Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Wants to Sue Chicago Gangs, Seize Their Assets
September 18, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBAs Chicago's gang violence spirals out of control, Mayor Lori Lightfoot is coming up with a new plan to fight back. Lightfoot wants to hold the gangs accountable by allowing the city to sue the very people who are pulling the trigger. Authorities want to take away the guns, cars, jewelry and money from gangs to eliminate their profit motive. Lightfoot is introducing an ordinance on Tuesday that will allow the city to sue gangs for the damage they inflict and seize their assets, the object...
#738 - Estate of Man Killed in Downtown Portland After Pro-Trump Rally, Sues City, Mayor, & DA
September 17, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBThe estate of the man fatally shot in downtown Portland after a pro-Trump car rally last year is suing the city of Portland, the mayor and the county district attorney, claiming their alleged negligence contributed to his violent death. The suit, filed Friday in federal court in Portland, contends a “hands-off approach” to political demonstrations and counter-protests in Portland fostered a “culture of vigilante policing” between opposing factions that filled the void and led to the killing...
#737 - Restaurant Owners in Portland See Spike in Applications as Federal Jobless Benefits End
September 17, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBIt's been one week since federal pandemic unemployment benefits ended. In the days following, restaurants across Portland tell KATU News they saw a spike in people looking for work. The owner at Chef's Table said his team is seeing about 50% more applicants, but this comes at a time when there are still many jobs to fill. "This is a welcome influx, but I think the people that are coming back in and applying again are going to find out, or know already, that there are massive job openings a...
#736 - Washington State Patrol, Corrections Workers and Others Sue Inslee Over COVID Vaccine Mandate
September 16, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.1 MBDozens of Washington State Patrol troopers and other state and local government employees have sued Gov. Jay Inslee, contending his COVID-19 vaccine mandate oversteps his legal authority and violates their constitutional rights. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Walla Walla County Superior Court, lists more than 90 individual plaintiffs. They include 53 State Patrol employees, a dozen Department of Corrections workers, plus firefighters, health care and ferry system workers. Reacting to a spike...
#735 - Lenox Square in Buckhead to Require Youths be Accompanied by Adults
September 16, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBIn the wake of several shootings, including one involving two teens, Lenox Square will begin requiring visitors under 18 to be accompanied at all times by an adult. A Wednesday afternoon news release detailed the new policy, which is called the “youth supervision program.” Any youth will have to be accompanied by their parent or an adult who is 21 or older after 3 p.m. each day, starting September 21. The change comes after a violent two years for the mall, a premier retail destination in ...
#734 - In a hot market, companies compete with would-be homeowners
September 15, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBSoaring home prices and rents are fueling real estate companies’ appetite for houses, adding unwelcome competition for many would-be homebuyers. Residential real estate bought by companies or institutions hit an all-time high of 67,943 properties in the second quarter, according to Redfin, a Seattle-based online brokerage. That’s more than a twofold increase from a year earlier, when the pandemic temporarily stymied the real estate market. It also represents 15.9% of all the properties sol...
#733 - Kshama Sawant Recall Campaign Turns in Signatures, Sets Sights on Winter Vote
September 15, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.3 MBThe campaign seeking to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant has officially turned its signatures in to King County Elections. Sawant urges supporters to collect signature to force recall vote The campaign says it submitted 16,234 signatures, following a months-long contentious back-and-forth between the recall and Kshama Solidarity, the group operating in support of Sawant. “We are now one step closer to holding Councilmember Sawant accountable,” Recall Campaign Manager Henry ...
#732 - The Most Expensive Home In America Defaults On $165 Million In Debt and Heads For Sale
September 14, 2021 11:00 - 40 minutes - 28.3 MBA mansion developer claims he's ready to test the market with his $500 million Bel-Air super pad, seven years after building began. What would be America's most expensive home is to hit the market for a cool half a billion dollars; complete with a nightclub, beauty salon, 20 bedrooms and sweeping views of LA and the Pacific Ocean. The mansion, dubbed 'The One' and developed by former film producer Nile Niami, sits atop a hill in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air and is exp...
#731 - The Hot Seattle-Area Housing Market Has Cooled But Home Prices Remain Up By Double-Digits
September 14, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBThe white-hot Seattle-area housing market has started to cool, by some measures. Last month, fewer new listings hit the market here and home prices dipped compared to a month earlier, according to data released Tuesday by the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. Brokers report occasional price drops, and one local economist says we could be hitting a “price ceiling.” But a year of runaway growth has already done its damage. Home prices across the Puget Sound region remain up by double-digit...
#730 - Small Businesses Negatively Impacted By Shortage Of Truckers Nationwide
September 13, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MBNo bags, no boxes and no lids. Those are three items the owner of West Seattle's Great American Diner said he has not been able to find. "Someone (in government) needs to come forward to help small businesses," said Sarbjit Singh, owner of the Great American Diner. "We still need help." Local businesses said they are dealing with supply shortages on the regular. The pandemic is exacerbating a shortage of truck drivers trying to fill those orders. "They don’t have it", said Jadjit Sami, ...
#729 - Rolling Stone Forced To Issue 'Update' After Viral Hospital Ivermectin Story Turns Out To Be False
September 13, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MBRolling Stone was forced to issue an update to its viral story about Oklahoma hospitals being overwhelmed by patients who overdosed on the drug ivermectin after the doctor it cited was contradicted by the hospitals he referenced. On Friday, the liberal magazine published testimony from Dr. Jason McElyea, who told a local news station that hospitals were being overrun from patients overdosing on ivermectin which resulted in other patients waiting for treatment. McElyea claimed the situation ...
#728 - Texas Lt. Governor Slams Portland For Planned Boycott Over State’s Abortion Law
September 12, 2021 10:00 - 15 minutes - 11.2 MBTexas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lambasted Portland leaders as “depraved” and accused them of putting residents in “grave danger” in response to the city’s plan to ban buying goods and services from the Lone Star State over its new law restricting access to abortions. “Portland boycotting Texas is a complete joke,” sniped Patrick, a conservative-talk-radio-host-turned-politician, on Twitter Monday. “A city led by depraved officials allows lawlessness, putting their citizens in grave danger. A boy...
#727 - Landlords: Eviction moratorium will have lasting effects on tenants, neighborhoods
September 11, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBNew York has extended eviction protections for tenants through January. Yet there's a gaping hole involving landlords. Some are now falling behind in property taxes and that could ultimately fall back on the people who rent from them - and on the neighborhoods. "I don't make enough to subsidize city rental properties," said Rich Tyson. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. https://13wham.c...
#726 - Evictions in Hawaii Have Yet to Spike Despite Lifting of Moratorium
September 10, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBIt’s been nearly two weeks since a federal eviction moratorium protecting renters was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, but the ruling doesn’t appear to have triggered a wave of eviction notices in Hawaii — yet. In April 2020, Gov. David Ige instituted a statewide eviction moratorium in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Hawaii’s resulting economic shutdown, which left many residents without jobs. The moratorium was extended, with Ige later announcing it would end Aug. 6. Renters w...
#725 - Ben Dugan Works for CVS. His Job Is Battling a $45 Billion Crime Spree
September 10, 2021 10:00 - 36 minutes - 25.5 MBBen Dugan sat in an unmarked sedan in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood one day last September waiting for the CVS to be robbed. He tracked a man entering the store and watched as the thief stuffed more than $1,000 of allergy medicine into a trash bag, walked out and did the same at two other nearby stores, before loading them into a waiting van, Mr. Dugan recalled. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW, and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this ...
#724 - Amazon’s Solution to Delivery Driver Shortage: Hiring Pot Smokers
September 09, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBAmazon.com Inc. has a solution for a potentially crippling shortage of delivery drivers: Recruit pot smokers. The company is advising its delivery partners — the mom-and-pops that operate the ubiquitous blue Amazon vans — to prominently advertise that they don’t screen applicants for marijuana use, according to correspondence reviewed by Bloomberg and interviews with four business owners. Doing so can boost the number of job applicants by as much as 400%, Amazon says in one message, withou...
#723 - Washington state’s new policing reforms causing confusion, mental health responders say
September 09, 2021 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBThe Redmond resident who took a drive, forgot where she left her car and ventured into a stranger’s home looking for a family member was no stranger to Susie Kroll. For more than a year, Kroll, a community support administrator with the Redmond Police Department, has tried to help the woman, who’s showing symptoms of Alzheimer’s including memory loss. She’s driven her car into bushes or trees, according to Kroll, but always refuses help. For the licensed mental health professional who acco...
#722 - Amazon looks to hire 12,500 corporate and tech employees in Seattle, more than in any other city
September 08, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.8 MBAmid sharp criticism over how it treats its employees, Amazon is looking to fill nearly 55,000 open corporate and tech positions globally, including 40,000 in the U.S., the company announced Wednesday in the lead-up to its annual Career Day event for prospective job applicants. Amazon’s hiring spree is concentrated in Seattle, where the company, Washington state’s largest private employer, has nearly 12,500 open roles, more than in any other city. An Amazon spokesperson said that the open p...
#721 - Marriage and Divorce Decline during the COVID-19 Pandemic
September 08, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.6 MBThe divorce rate in the United State dropped about 20% over the last decade, according to data from the latest U.S. Census. But what about during the COVID-19 pandemic? Did the added stress affect marriages? Have divorce rates actually risen since the coronavirus entered our lives? To find out, KING 5 combed through the last 20 months of caseloads in Washington State’s Superior Courts where divorces are processed. We found dissolutions, which is the legal term for divorce filings, did go ...
#720 - ‘Over 100 additional shootings’ in Seattle compared to this time last year
September 07, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB“We continue to see more victims being shot each year,” Interim Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz said. A few Seattle leaders held a news conference Tuesday morning to address the recent surge in gun violence. This conference came after six shootings took place across Seattle over the weekend, one of which left two people dead at a North Seattle apartment building. But Diaz says that’s just the latest in what’s been a disturbing trend. “So far, year to date, there have been over 100 additio...
#719 - Goldman Sachs: 750,000 Households Could Face Eviction In The Next Four Months
September 07, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.9 MBThe investment form in a report, said as many as 750,000 households could face eviction before the end of the year —and that as many as 3.5 million households nationwide are behind in their rent payments. At this point, the only thing stopping that would be an eviction moratorium from Congress, which has been hesitant to agree to such a policy so far. The Biden Administration ordered one previously, but that was overturned by the Supreme Court over the weekend. Many state-level eviction ban...
#718 - Nothing to buy, nothing to rent: Some Americans are stuck in housing limbo
September 05, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.7 MBWhen Rebecca DiLorenzo’s landlord of 14 months informed her that he would be raising the rent by $300 a month on the apartment in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, she shares with her fiancé, Kyle, she started to look around for a place to buy. “Our mindset last spring was, ‘We’re getting married, we need to buy a house’ and for a while we were going to open houses every weekend, but the market was just getting crazier and crazier,” she said. After getting outbid on four houses — by as much a...
#717 - Seattle leaders address gun violence after another weekend of shootings
September 04, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.5 MBSeattle police are investigating multiple weekend shootings that left two people dead, at least two people wounded and sent officers seeking suspects in neighborhoods across the city. This continues the 2021 trend of increased gunfire, including five shootings earlier in the week. In one of these, police say two teenagers shot at each other outside a Southeast Seattle school. There were 420 cases of gunfire in Seattle last year, and 370 so far in 2021, far higher than normal, interim police...
#716 - Seattle leaders address gun violence after another weekend of shootings
September 03, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSeattle police are investigating multiple weekend shootings that left two people dead, at least two people wounded and sent officers seeking suspects in neighborhoods across the city. This continues the 2021 trend of increased gunfire, including five shootings earlier in the week. In one of these, police say two teenagers shot at each other outside a Southeast Seattle school. There were 420 cases of gunfire in Seattle last year, and 370 so far in 2021, far higher than normal, interim police...
#715 - Judge Strikes Seattle Charter Amendment on Homelessness From November Ballot
September 03, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBA judge has ruled that Charter Amendment 29, known as “Compassion Seattle,” won’t go before Seattle voters in November. The measure’s potential effect on the city was still being debated, but it could have dramatically changed the way the city addresses homelessness if it had passed. But its spirit could still influence the Nov. 2 election, in which persistent visible homelessness, and its pandemic-related growth in places like downtown Seattle, will likely be key issues. King County Super...
#714 - Supreme Court Blocks Biden Administration's Latest Ban on Evictions
September 02, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBThe Supreme Court on Thursday lifted the Biden administration's newest federal ban on evictions, granting a bid from a group of landlords to block the pandemic-related protections for renters facing eviction in most of the country. In an unsigned opinion with the three liberal justices in dissent, the divided court said that "careful review" of the case "makes clear that the applicants are virtually certain to succeed on the merits of their argument that the CDC has exceeded its authority."...
#713 - How did one Seattle ‘unhoused to hotels’ program work? The results are mixed
September 02, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBAt the beginning of the pandemic, Seattle and King County tried a new approach to get people living in homeless encampments into stable housing. They started putting people up in hotels, with the ultimate goal of keeping people off the streets. Some new data suggests that approach may not be a silver bullet in solving the issue. Seattle Times reporter Sydney Brownstone has been reporting on the efforts of a coalition called JustCARE. She told KUOW’s Kim Malcolm about what happened to the re...
#712 - Downtown Seattle courthouse safety issues are keeping jurors away, judges say
September 01, 2021 12:00 - 23 minutes - 16.6 MBCrime and public safety issues around the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle are causing potential jurors to decline to serve, making it more difficult to fill juries, several King County judges said Wednesday. Public safety issues around the downtown courthouse, the seat of county government, have festered for years, but have been exacerbated during the pandemic, as downtown office workers largely stayed home and encampments in the area proliferated. “Of particular concern for us ...
#711 - Panicked Democrats switch from 'defund' to 'refund' the police
September 01, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBThe Democratic Party’s quest to defund police forces, an act in which it kowtowed to its hard-left-wing base, has come to a very bitter end. The resulting surge in violent crime has produced a massive public backlash that threatens the careers of elected Democrats throughout the nation. Naturally, the endangered species is trying to distance itself swiftly from the wreckage that “defund the police” has left behind. The mayors of Portland and Seattle, who respectively slashed police funding ...
#710 - Seattle Mayor Utilizes Officers From Defunded Homeless Response Team for Personal Protection
September 01, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBMultiple sources within SPD confirmed that officers from the former Navigation Team and North Precinct patrol provide 24/7 security outside of Mayor Jenny Durkan's multi-million dollar home in an upscale Seattle neighborhood. During cuts to the Seattle Police Department's budget last year in response to the "defund the police" movement, Seattle City Council voted to cut the Seattle Police Department's Navigation Team that had the responsibility of clearing the city's violent homeless encamp...
#709 - Homelessness blamed for demise of iconic coffee shop
August 31, 2021 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBAn iconic coffee shop in Lower Queen Anne has closed its doors. The owner of Uptown Espresso says homeless issues in the once-thriving neighborhood forced him out. He says the conversion of The Inn at Queen Anne from a hotel brought more formerly homeless people into the neighborhood. He and his neighbors, located around the corner from The Inn, say the impact of that decision is being felt right here in Lower Queen Anne. “It’s kind of a bad situation to be a coffee bar retailer at the b...
#708 - Seattle Mayor's Office Knew for Months Durkan's Phone Caused Texts to Vanish
August 31, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBWhen the public learned in May that 10 months of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s text messages were missing, her office initially attributed the loss to an “unknown technology issue” with one of three phones she used during the period in question. But officials already had known for months why the texts were gone and when they disappeared, internal emails appear to show. And City Attorney Pete Holmes says the initial explanation from Durkan’s office was misleading. Durkan’s texts were set to ...
#707 - Shots Fired Near Downtown Portland Protest, Dueling Demonstrators Cash Violently
August 31, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBFar right-wing demonstrators and left-wing protesters clashed Sunday in Portland, a conflict that was punctuated with gunfire on a downtown street. Dustin Brandon Ferreira, 37, a left-wing activist, said he was with other activists Sunday evening when a man used a slur against a Black man in the group and fired multiple rounds in their direction. Portland police said in an email that “the entire incident” is under investigation. Dennis Anderson, 65, of Gresham, was charged with unlawful us...
#706 - US Appeals Court Refuses to End CDC’s Eviction Moratorium
August 30, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBA federal appeals court on Friday said a pause on evictions designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus can remain in place for now, setting up a battle before the nation’s highest court. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia rejected a bid by Alabama and Georgia landlords to block the eviction moratorium reinstated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month. The landlords filed an emergency motion hours later with the Su...
#705 - Tacoma Man Sees Rent Hike From $825 a Month for Five Years to $1,375 Post-Eviction Ban
August 30, 2021 10:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBRent increases are nothing new, but one Tacoma man says he was shocked over the one he is facing, calling it "ruthless." Terrance Parsons has lived at Manitou Park Apartments in South Tacoma for the past five years. He says his rent is around $825 a month, including utilities. "They want to raise it to $1,375," Parsons said. A 60-day notice of the rent increase signed by LandlordSolutions on behalf of the owner says $75 of the $1,375 is for utilities. They also tell tenants that they coul...