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#704 - Portland cracks down on street racing with harsher penalties
August 29, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBPortland City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to crack down on street racing, beefing up penalties for those who shut down intersections and roadways and speed around city streets. The ordinance will create two new misdemeanor crimes with which to charge street racers: “unlawful street takeover” and “unlawful staging of street takeover events.” Potential penalties include towed cars, a fine of up to $500, and jail time. If it’s a first offense, the driver could instead take part in a di...
#703 - Why King County has spent just $6.5 million of its $145 million in federal rent assistance
August 28, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn the race to distribute millions of dollars in rent assistance to thousands of tenants, King County is lagging behind its neighbors. The state’s most populous county says it has distributed $6.5 million, or 4.5%, of $145 million in available federal funding to help struggling renters and landlords. Pierce County has spent about 59% of $53.4 million in federal and state money, and Snohomish County has spent about 47% of $57.8 million, according to county spokespeople. King County says th...
#702 - Rent prices for single-family homes in Seattle have increased 7.7% year over year
August 27, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBRent prices for single-family homes in the Seattle metro area have increased 7.7% year over year, according to a new report. The report, released Tuesday by CoreLogic, examined rent prices for single-family homes in June of this year and compared them to rent prices for those homes in June of last year. Across the nation, year-over-year growth in rent prices for those homes was up 7.5%. In June of last year, the year-over-year growth was 1.4%. In a news release, the company said June’s ave...
#701 - Tacoma Man Sees Rent Hike From $825 a Month for Five Years to $1,375 Post-Eviction Ban
August 27, 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...
#700 - Portland cracks down on street racing with harsher penalties
August 26, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBPortland City Council unanimously voted Wednesday to crack down on street racing, beefing up penalties for those who shut down intersections and roadways and speed around city streets. The ordinance will create two new misdemeanor crimes with which to charge street racers: “unlawful street takeover” and “unlawful staging of street takeover events.” Potential penalties include towed cars, a fine of up to $500, and jail time. If it’s a first offense, the driver could instead take part in a di...
#699 - Why King County has spent just $6.5 million of its $145 million in federal rent assistance
August 26, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIn the race to distribute millions of dollars in rent assistance to thousands of tenants, King County is lagging behind its neighbors. The state’s most populous county says it has distributed $6.5 million, or 4.5%, of $145 million in available federal funding to help struggling renters and landlords. Pierce County has spent about 59% of $53.4 million in federal and state money, and Snohomish County has spent about 47% of $57.8 million, according to county spokespeople. King County says th...
#698 - United Airlines Told Its Flight Attendants NOT To Duct Tape Unruly Passengers
August 25, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBUnited Airlines has instructed its flight attendants not to use duct tape on disorderly passengers. John Slater, United's senior vice president of inflight services, sent a memo to flight attendants on Friday telling them to avoid using tape to restrain unruly passengers. "Please remember that there are designated items onboard that may be used in difficult situations, and alternative measures such as tape should never be used," he wrote in the memo, which was viewed by Insider. "The over...
#697 - As murders surge, Democrats find a new message: FUND THE POLICE
August 25, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBLast summer, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser played a high-profile role in the protests sweeping America over police killings of Black suspects. She renamed a street Black Lives Matter Plaza and joined thousands of demonstrators there, many shouting what had become the movement’s slogan: “Defund the police!” Earlier this year, the mayor, a Democrat, proposed cutting the police budget and redirecting money to social services. Now, however, Bowser and many other Democratic city leaders are sc...
#696 - Portland Clubs Reopen With Ex-Soldiers to Keep Parties From Becoming Shootouts
August 24, 2021 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBIt’s last call in Chinatown, and a crowd spills out of Shake Bar onto Northwest Couch Street—about 200 people stumbling, some looking for electric scooters, women barefoot and carrying their high heels. The clubgoers are met by a heavily armed guard. He stands beneath the Hung Far Low sign, clad in a bulletproof vest and desert-tan tactical pants, with a 9 mm pistol strapped to his leg and an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder. His name is Jean-Pierre LaFont. He’s a 45-year...
#695 - Lumber Prices Have Tumbled 70% in the Last 14 Weeks Following a Blistering Rally
August 24, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.7 MBFor how steep the run-up was, lumber's plunge has been even more disorienting. Starting its ascent in late October 2020, lumber climbed to a peak of $1,711 over the course of seven months. But it took just 14 weeks to see all those gains erased. The last 14 weeks have seen lumber swiftly give back its gains, with the latest prices - near $500 per thousand board foot - down 70% from its all-time high in May. Now, some analysts are calling a bottom while projecting flatter prices in the mont...
#694 - Hundreds of Local Businesses Still Reeling From the Pandemic Are Hit With a Spate of ADA Lawsuits
August 23, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBThings were looking pretty good last month for Tai Pan, a downtown Palo Alto restaurant known for its Cantonese dim sum. State officials lifted COVID-19 restrictions at the start of summer, and business was finally picking up again as friends — long parted — were reuniting over good food. The positive outlook was shattered on July 21, however, when Tai Pan received a lawsuit stating that the restaurant was discriminatory. Its outdoor dining tables, set up for pandemic safety and the preferr...
#693 - Suffering Landlords Are Washington’s New Eviction Problem
August 23, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBWashington’s pandemic response is battering the finances of independent landlords, most of whom haven’t received federal rental aid designed to keep them whole during a nearly year-long eviction ban that has forced some property owners to house tenants for free. The distress is acute for so-called mom-and-pop landlords — those who own fewer than 10 properties, which typically have between one and four units. They supply about half the housing stock in the country, and they’re more likely th...
#692 - Federal Judge Doesn't See Path Yet Toward Ending Seattle Consent Decree On Police Reform
August 22, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.8 MBThe judge overseeing federal oversight of the Seattle Police Department and the monitor he appointed warned Tuesday that divisive politics are undermining court-ordered reforms and that inaction could send the department into a “deepening crisis,” further undermining public safety. U.S. District Judge James Robart, who oversees a consent decree signed by the city and the Department of Justice in 2012, mentioned more than once during a hearing Tuesday that original estimates were that the SP...
#691 - Australia’s capital city to enforce snap lockdown after one new COVID-19 case
August 21, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 10.4 MBCanberra, Australia’s capital with a population of about 400,000 will likely go into a snap lockdown after it was revealed that there was one new case of COVID-19, according to reports Wednesday night from the country. "For the sake of your health, your family’s health and for the health of the community, it’s critical that Canberrans take every precaution they can over the coming days," Andrew Barr, the chief minister, said, according to ABC.net.au. The report said the lockdown will last...
#690 - Rent in the Inland Northwest is soaring, and tenants feel powerless to stop it
August 20, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBOn July 1, Melody Deatherage arrived home after work to find a notice of rent increase on her door. She'd been expecting a bump in rent, but this was far beyond what she'd imagined: an increase of over $500 a month, effective Sept. 1. And if Deatherage, 65, refused to sign a lease under those terms, then Hilby Station Apartments would increase her rent again to $2,350 — double what she's currently paying. Deatherage, who works in human resources for a nonprofit agency, says it left her wi...
#689 - Bidding wars erupt for renters as the economy recovers in a hot housing market
August 20, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBThey are usually reserved for homebuyers, but bidding wars are becoming more common in the rental home market. Demand for apartment and single-family rentals is surging and outpacing supply. As the economy improves, workers are moving out of shared living situations and looking for their own homes. In addition, the housing market is so expensive right now that many would-be buyers are being priced out. That has them looking for rentals. Some landlords are seeing more than a dozen applicati...
#688 - After defunding and demonizing police, Seattle council blames chief for mass exodus
August 19, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBMembers of the Seattle City Council had the audacity to blame Seattle Police Department management for the mass exodus of officers from the city. Council President Lorena Gonzalez is running for mayor and looking to avoid blame for the city’s rising crime problems. The surge happened thanks to her leadership as she attempted to dismantle the police department and reimagine it through a fringe, progressive worldview. She took the lead in attacking police management during a Tuesday morning c...
#687 - With the End of the Eviction Ban in WA Landlords Are Raising Rents to Pre-Pandemic Levels
August 19, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20.1 MBA pre-pandemic fact of life for Seattle tenants has returned: The rent is going up. The coronavirus and widespread work-from-home policies last year led to reduced Seattle rents, especially in dense neighborhoods such as South Lake Union. Now, for renters shopping for a new lease, those deals are harder to find as rent prices return to pre-pandemic levels. At the same time, tenants staying in their current homes are dealing with another reality: With the end of Washington’s previous state ...
#686 - No more 'master' bedrooms: Minnesota real estate listings aim for inclusivity
August 18, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.6 MBA new real estate terminology is emerging during a time of racial reckoning as many agents drop biased language. Browse through home listings today and you'll find terms like "primary bedroom," "dual closets" and "in-law suites" instead of "master bedroom," "his-and-hers closets" and "mother-in-law suites." It's part of a new real estate terminology that's emerging during a time of racial reckoning and pleas for more inclusive language. "There's a hidden discriminatory piece that falls w...
#685 - Seattle police's response times reach over 60 minutes as staffing shortages continue
August 18, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBSkyrocketing response times and SPD staffing shortages were the focus of attention at the Seattle City Council Public Safety Committee meeting. During discussions on the SPD Quarterly Finance and Staffing Report Tuesday, city council addressed SPD staffing levels and reports that response times for certain crimes can take more than 60 minutes to response to. Seattle Police warned this is exactly what would happen, as response times are getting longer and longer for certain crimes with the ...
#684 - Oregon governor signs bill suspending math, reading proficiency requirements for HS graduates
August 17, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBGov. Kate Brown, the Oregon Democrat, signed a bill last month with little fanfare that drops the requirement that high school students prove proficiency in reading, writing or math before graduation, a report said. The Oregonian reported that the governor has seemed to avoid discussing Senate Bill 744. Her move to sign the bill was "not public until recently, because her office did not hold a signing ceremony or issue press release." The paper also pointed out that the bill was first signe...
#683 - Portland reaches grim milestone in year's number of homicides
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThe deadly TriMet shooting over the past weekend was the city's 56th homicide this year. That means this year is the deadliest Portland has seen in two and a half decades, according to The Oregonian/OregonLive, and there are still four months left until 2022. The Oregonian says there were 55 homicides in 1994. KATU asked police to verify that number, but Portland police were unable to accommodate the request Monday. Police have yet to release any more information on the Southeast Portland ...
#682 - Antifa assault families and children at Christian prayer event in Portland park
August 16, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBA large group of Antifa carrying shields and melee weapons attacked a group of Evangelical Christians congregating for a prayer and worship event at the waterfront in downtown Portland, Ore. Video recorded at the scene showed children and families running away as black-clad Antifa militants tore apart the sound equipment and assaulted attendees with pepper spray and projectiles. The event was announced last month by a Christian ministry featuring firebrand Canadian preacher Artur Pawlowski....
#681 - Landlord out $24,000 in rent due to eviction moratorium, says tenants buying boats
August 16, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBA North Carolina landlord says he is out $24,000 in unpaid rent from his tenants, including one who splurged on three boats and requested a $4,500 heat pump during the pandemic. Buddy Shoup, a property owner near Charlotte, worries that the tab will only grow following the CDC’s recent decision to extend the moratorium on rental evictions until October 3. The suspension of evictions was first imposed by the Trump administration at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and was set to end Ju...
#680 - Chicago cops give cold shoulder to Mayor Lightfoot at hospital after two officers shot
August 15, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 10.5 MBMayor Lori Lightfoot was given the cold shoulder by CPD rank and file about midnight Saturday at the University of Chicago Medical Center when she approached them on the 7th floor as they grappled with the shootings of two fellow officers. Chicago Police Officer Ella French was shot and killed during a traffic stop Saturday night in West Englewood, while her partner continues to fight for his life at the hospital. Three people are in custody. Just moments before about 30 officers turned th...
#679 - Cori Bush defends calling to defund the police while having private security
August 14, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBRep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., was ripped by viewers on Thursday after telling CBS News that the police "need" to be defunded, despite shelling out thousands of dollars for her own personal security detail. Bush slept outside the Capitol this week to protest the end of the first eviction moratorium that was put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. The representative was once homeless herself. She and Democratic leaders celebrated a short-term victory on Wednesday after the moratorium was e...
#678 - NBC sees 'worst case scenario' as Olympics ratings plunge amid 'woke' protests
August 13, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBNBC is giving advertisers who bought airtime during the Tokyo Olympics extra commercials due to underwhelming ratings for this year’s 2020 Olympic Games, fueled by a pandemic-weary population and backlash against woke athletes protesting the U.S. flag and national anthem. NBC Sports Chairman Pete Bevacqua insisted to the Associated Press that the network would still make money on the 2020 Olympics – but left out details about how much. NBC’s primetime coverage of the Tokyo Olympics on July...
#677 - Man killed in violent brawl at homeless camp as couple speeds off with infant in car
August 13, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBNew surveillance pictures captured a violent brawl at a homeless encampment in Seattle that ended with one man getting hit and killed as a driver tried to speed away in a car with a 2-week old baby. Two men from the homeless encampment are behind bars facing charges. Charging documents mentioned a car prowler that led a couple to that encampment, looking for their stolen items. Randy, a man staying at that camp, said that's not what happened. He said it was a "sale" and the driver tried r...
#676 - Another eviction moratorium puts 'backbone' of rental housing at risk, industry leader says
August 12, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 18.1 MBBob Pinnegar, the president and CEO of the National Apartment Association (NAA), argued on "Cavuto: Coast to Coast" on Thursday that "the backbone of the nation’s rental housing stock" is at risk with the latest eviction moratorium. Pinnegar was referring to independent rental owners who own a building with one to four units, which he noted is more than half of the America’s housing stock at 53%. Last week, NAA filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to recover damages on beh...
#675 - There’s a big shift happening in the housing market
August 12, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBBreakneck. That's the best way to describe the pace of the 2021 housing market. The bidding wars got so intense this year that home price growth set an all-time record. But the tide is turning. The rush of buyers into the housing market during the pandemic absolutely crushed housing inventory—the number of homes on the market—with that figure falling for 12 consecutive months. By April, housing inventory was down a staggering 53% from a year earlier. However, the trajectory has flipped: Fo...
#674 - Missouri Governor Mike Parson Pardons Couple Who Pointed Guns at Black Lives Matter Protesters
August 11, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBMissouri Gov. Mike Parson announced Tuesday that he had pardoned Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who were charged with waving guns at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters outside their home last year. Mark McCloskey was seen holding a semi-automatic rifle while his wife was holding a handgun on their property on June 28, 2020, as a group of protesters passed by their house, prosecutors said. The couple were filmed shouting "Get out" to the crowd, but there was no physi...
#673 - Seattle homeless camp, courthouse so dangerous that sheriff orders staff to work remotely
August 11, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBThe homeless encampment next to the King County Courthouse in Seattle is so dangerous that Sheriff Mitzi Johanknecht is ordering most of her professional staff members to work 100% remotely. Johanknecht cites the “unsafe environment around the courthouse, administration, parking garage, and corrections facilities,” along with labor union concerns, as contributing factors in her decision. The announcement was made in a Monday memo to office staff. The King County Sheriff’s Office is located ...
#672 - After latest attack at King County courthouse, calls grow to move it of Seattle
August 10, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe latest act of violence at the King County courthouse has one County Council member saying it's time to move its operations out of Seattle. "We talked about this in October of 2019 and we’re still talking about it and so it’s time to take action," said County Councilwoman Kathy Lambert, adding that massive security changes need to be made to improve safety or it should relocate. “I think the courthouse needs to be moved. Not because we’re trying to abandon, but because we’re trying to pr...
#671 - Over 200 Cops Have Left Seattle Police Department Since 2020 Summer Protests
August 10, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBOver 200 officers have left the Seattle Police Department since the 2020 summer protests, including Carmen Best, the city's first Black police chief. Officers have quit in protest of calls to "defund" the police, which includes cutting salaries and cutting jobs for as many as 100 police officers. Interim police Chief Adrian Diaz said the department's reduced numbers have led to a "staffing crisis." During last year's large protests, City Council members and others criticized the department...
#670 - CDC Announces New Eviction Ban Despite Threat From The Supreme Court
August 09, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBThe Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new, targeted federal eviction ban to replace the one that expired over the weekend, setting up a potential clash with the Supreme Court. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new ban will apply to “counties experiencing substantial and high levels of community transmission levels” of Covid-19 and will last until Oct. 3, the agency said. President Joe Biden had earlier Tuesday teased the announcement to reporters while cautioning t...
#669 - New California Pig Rules Could Cause Bacon to Disappear Next Year!
August 09, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBAt the beginning of next year, California will begin enforcing an animal welfare proposition approved overwhelmingly by voters in 2018 that requires more space for breeding pigs, egg-laying chickens and veal calves. National veal and egg producers are optimistic they can meet the new standards, but only 4% of hog operations now comply with the new rules. Unless the courts intervene or the state temporarily allows non-compliant meat to be sold in the state, California will lose almost all of ...
#668 - Investment Firms Aren't Buying All The Homes But The Most Important Ones!
August 08, 2021 10:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBThe median price of an American house has increased by 28 percent over the last two years, as pandemic-driven demand and long-term demographic changes send buyers into crazed bidding wars. Might the fact that corporate investors snapped up 15 percent of U.S. homes for sale in the first quarter of this year have something to do with it? The Wall Street Journal reported in April that an investment firm won a bidding war to purchase an entire neighborhood worth of single-family homes in Conroe...
#667 - Extended unemployment benefits have caused ‘a whopping 1.8 million’ Americans to turn down jobs
August 07, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBRep. Dan Caulkins (R-Decatur) is shedding light on a recent marketing research report that estimates the end of federal unemployment benefits will lead to nearly 2 million jobs being filled through the end of the year. Morning Consult reported that 26 governors chose to prematurely terminate the extra $300 per week unemployed workers were receiving under the American Rescue Plan because they argued the additional benefits were preventing individuals from returning to work. “A new poll deli...
#666 - Seattle grocers ask SPD to hire more officers to meet 'basic levels of public safety'
August 06, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBThe Washington Food Industry Association (WFIA) is calling on the City of Seattle to address its crime problem. The association argues its members feel conditions are not safe for employees and shoppers. “Simply put, we need the city council to work with the Seattle Police Department to bring staffing levels up in a way that meets basic levels of public safety. Action must be taken to increase the number of police available to respond to emergency calls in a timely manner. The current resp...
#655 - New restrictions on Washington state police may lead to spike in crime
August 06, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBAs the most sweeping police reform in the nation takes effect in Washington state over a year after the death of George Floyd, law enforcement agencies outside of Seattle are arguing new restrictions set on officers when interacting with the public may further incentivize criminal activity. The nearly a dozen bills, passed by a legislature controlled by Democrats and signed by Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee in May, took effect on July 25 and cover virtually all aspects of policing, including t...
#654 - Seattle Rent Prices Are Almost Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels
August 05, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBA NEW REPORT has confirmed the anecdotes: Seattle rent prices are almost as ridiculously high as they were before the pandemic. The median monthly cost for a one-bedroom in July is $1,633, and a two-bedroom now fetches $2,037 citywide, according to Apartment List’s latest rent review. The site found that rents across Seattle have climbed to just 5 percent below their pre-pandemic levels, a trend that tracks with a national uptick but marks a significant departure from 2020′s price free fall...
#653 - The White House & Federal Reserve: Inflation Isn't Here to Stay! Are they right?
August 05, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBThe White House and the Federal Reserve broadly agree: Inflation isn't here to stay. Red-hot prices will cool off as the US economy reopens. Most economists seem to concur that inflation is "transitory," as the Fed puts it. Investors aren't freaking out either about the biggest price hikes since 2008. But the stakes couldn't be much higher here. If the consensus is wrong (as it sometimes is) and inflation remains uncomfortably high, it could threaten the economic recovery, the stock market...
#652 - Boeing’s turnaround threatened by talent exodus to companies like Amazon, SpaceX
August 04, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBBoeing will put its battered engineering reputation on the line again this week when its Starliner spacecraft blasts off from Florida with a load of supplies for the International Space Station. The mission is a do-over of a 2019 trip that almost ended in calamity, and a dress rehearsal for the Boeing capsule’s first flight with astronauts later this year. If successful, it would narrow the gap with an ascendant rival, SpaceX, and answer the latest space-faring feats by the billionaire foun...
#651 - Confusion Among Law Officials Besets New Police Reform Laws in WA State
August 04, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBWashington state is embarking on a massive experiment in police reform and accountability following the racial justice protests that erupted after George Floyd’s murder last year, as nearly a dozen laws took effect Sunday. But two months after Gov. Jay Inslee signed the bills, law enforcement officials remain uncertain about what they require, leading to discrepancies around the state in how officers might respond — or not respond — to certain situations, including active crime scenes and m...
#650 - Homeless Bazaar Sells Stolen Clothes & Booze at Prime Location in Seattle
August 02, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBCOVID mandates resulted in nearly 150 Seattle businesses permanently closing. But as the Seattle economy finally reopens, residents and tourists have a new retail outlet to buy clothing and alcohol. It’s a few blocks away from Pike Place Market, occupying prime real estate near Sub Pop Records and trendy restaurants Serious Pie and Shaker + Spear. But there’s a problem: It’s an illegal bazaar appealing mostly to homeless people. It sells what appears to be stolen goods. And the city hasn’t...
#649 - San Francisco Wants $20,000 High-Tech Trash Cans to Block off Human Scavengers
August 02, 2021 10:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThe city of San Francisco could spend $20,000 on a trash can. It could be the first of thousands like it, but officials say others would cost less. In the current cans around the city, trash goes in, but much too often comes out. “They go looking for drugs. They go looking for things to recycle,” said resident Isaac Stevens. “In the neighborhood I live in, they bust them open. They pull things out, and sometimes they get too full.” Sleeker designed bins with sensors alerting crews when t...
#648 - Five "Sovereign Citizens" Charged After Squatting in Widow's $1.5 Million Mansion for Sale
August 01, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBA group of at least five self-proclaimed "sovereign citizens" moved into an empty Maryland mansion and tried to claim it as their own, The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday. The group, which included a dentist and a convicted sex offender, moved in, changed the locks, and put a chain across the driveway with a "private property" sign. The homeowner, who did not want to be named due to safety concerns, had moved out of the $1.5 million home in Baltimore County and listed it for sale after the...
#647 - Seattle City Council Silent After Deadly Weekend of Gun Violence in the City
July 31, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBAfter a deadly weekend of gun violence in Seattle, many people who live in these impacted neighborhoods are now criticizing the City Council for not showing up to check on constituents or answer questions about public safety. “The silence is deafening,” says former City of Seattle Safety Advisor Scott Lindsay Councilmember Andrew Lewis represents Pioneer Square, the scene of several shootings on Sunday. Lewis also serves Belltown where one man was shot to death after a bar fight. Instead o...
#646 - Democratic Mayors Defund Police While Spending Millions on Private Security
July 30, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MBAs crime surges across the nation, Democratic mayors in approximately 20 U.S. cities that have called for defunding the police have received millions in taxpayer funds towards their own personal security details, according to a new report. New data compiled by Forbes auditor Open the Books through Freedom of Information Act requests reveals that the city of Chicago, for example, spent $17.3 million between 2015 and 2020 to guard "unnamed city officials." Despite Mayor Lori Lightfoot's claim...
#645 - Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan Wants to Rebuild Police Force That Has Lost 250 Officers
July 30, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBThere were four people killed in Seattle early Sunday, plus at least six more injured in unconnected shootings. That was in addition to another deadly shooting that happened Friday night bringing the weekend total to five deaths. Today Mayor Jenny Durkan gave a press conference about the weekend violence in which she pointed out that lack of police staffing was part of the problem. “Over the past 17 months the Seattle Police Department has lost 250 police officers,” Durkan said. She continu...