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#544 - Violent crime is a real problem for 'defund the police' activists
June 01, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBThis morning Ed wrote about the situation in Minneapolis where a surge in violent crime has created a sudden reversal in how many people, including some activists, feel about police. Yesterday the NY Times published a similar piece about Los Angeles which reveals that the city’s “defund the police” efforts have effectively been reversed as local leaders realize they need more cops on the street, not fewer. The surge is prompting cities whose leaders embraced the values of the movement last ...
#545 - Five rural counties in liberal Oregon vote in favor of leaving state for more conservative Idaho
June 01, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBFive rural counties in Oregon voted this week to press forward with a plan to leave the state and merge with neighboring Idaho, the latest move in a long-shot campaign by conservatives who say they’re fed up with Oregon’s left-leaning politics. Voters in Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur and Sherman counties — sparsely populated areas in the state’s eastern half — approved ballot measures Tuesday requiring local officials to consider redrawing the border to make them Idahoans. Behind the push is...
#543 - PacifiCorp tells Portland employees to return to the office in less than 2 weeks or take pay cut
May 31, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBPower company PacifiCorp told employees at its Lloyd District headquarters Thursday afternoon that they must return to the office full-time on June 1 or take a 10% pay cut to continue working remotely. Several PacifiCorp employees told The Oregonian/OregonLive they were caught off guard by the sudden announcement and felt frustrated and upset that they were being given less than two weeks to either make accommodations to return to work or take a significant cut in pay. An email sent to emp...
#542 - Seattle inspector general urges elimination of routine traffic stops by police
May 30, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBSeattle police should strongly consider eliminating traffic stops for minor, civil and non-dangerous violations, the city's inspector general wrote this week in a letter to Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz. Such stops should be discontinued "for the safety of both officers and the public and for racial fairness," wrote Seattle Inspector General Lisa Judge, who is charged by law with helping to ensure the fairness and integrity of the police system in its delivery of law enforcement services...
#541 - Millions face eviction when moratorium ends
May 29, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17 MBFamilies across the U.S. don't know if they're going to have a place to stay as states challenge the federal moratorium on evictions imposed during the pandemic. The trickle of evictions could soon become a flood as renters owe $53 billion to landlords. Anthony Upshaw and his 17-year-old son are among those being evicted after Upshaw lost this job early in the pandemic and has been struggling since. Constables placed his belongings in the front yard of the Dallas property. "They going to...
#540 - Intruder forces lockdown at Seattle's Broadview Thomson K-8 School
May 28, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBSeattle Public Schools says they believe a propped-open service door at Broadview Thomson K-8 is how a man got inside the school building on Wednesday, forcing a lockdown. It happened around 8:20 in the morning. “Our kids had an online class today and suddenly it was stopped and then later the teacher texted us that there was a lockdown,” said Jeremy Hubble, the parent of a student at the school. The intruder was discovered inside the school after he startled a teacher as she was instruct...
#539 - Portland to remove homeless encampments more aggressively following COVID-19 pause
May 28, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBThe city of Portland announced Wednesday it will get more aggressive in removing what it deems the most problematic homeless encampments in the city. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the city had scaled back how many camps officials remove, and how quickly the removal process happens. The scale-back was an effort to limit COVID-19 transmission among people living on the streets and was in line with recommendations from the CDC. The city stopped all camp removals between March and July...
#538 - 3 Reasons why the housing shortage will last for years, Goldman Sachs says
May 27, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MBSupply for homes can't keep up with demand. At a point when the country badly needs more houses, housing starts fell 9.5% in April, and Goldman Sachs doesn't see the cavalry arriving soon. A May 2 note from Goldman's Ronnie Walker found that new home sales and housing starts have reached their highest levels since 2006, and housing supply is at its lowest level since the 1970s. But as demand remains high, little is being done — and can be done — to fix the low supply. "The resulting picture...
#537 - Seattle loses almost 20% of police force amid year of nationwide protests
May 27, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 21.4 MBThe Seattle Police Department is struggling under the backlash of recent police reforms. The state of Washington has just enacted a dozen police reform laws, following nearly a year of protests over police brutality. According to one social justice group, more than $840 million were cut from U.S. police budgets in 2020. This has caused a shortage of police in Seattle. The police chief tells CBS News that 260 officers, which is almost 20 percent of the force, have left in the past year and ...
#536 - Seattle Parks Organizer planning ‘CHOP Block Party’ in June
May 26, 2021 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBThe Seattle Parks department is offering planning and and funding help for events in Cal Anderson, one year after the Capitol Hill occupied protest that filled the park and nearby blocks became a center of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle. Meanwhile, an organizer who has focused on the art of the protests, has announced a CHOP Block Party weekend next month to mark the one-year anniversary of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’s formation. The city’s call for summer 2021 events doe...
#535 - 10th Walgreens to close since 2019 in San Francisco
May 26, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBYet another Walgreens will shut its doors permanently this month. The store at the corner of Bush and Larkin streets posted signs in its windows last week announcing the closure, which will happen March 17. But community members are so concerned about the closure, they’ve started an online petition hoping to stop it. The Change.org petition had 179 signatures as of publication and emphasizes the importance of the location to senior residents. The location where prescription records will be...
#534 - Brokers detect good news for home buyers, citing gains in listings and moderating prices
May 24, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBFinally, some good news for home buyers! Sizeable increases in new listings compared to a year ago and reports of moderating prices "might mean we are seeing some relief for buyers," suggested John Deely, a board member at Northwest Multiple Listing Service. In commenting on the latest statistics from Northwest MLS summarizing April activity, Deely said the market remains hot while emphasizing active listing numbers do not always reflect actual overall activity. "With a market like ours, an...
#533 - Controversial reverend hosts event that prompts protests in Bellevue
May 23, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBPolice in Bellevue were on high alert Tuesday night as several planned protests took place and a group marched in the streets of downtown. The activity was initially in response to a law enforcement appreciation dinner that was hosted by Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of evangelist Billy Graham, who has become a controversial figure for making anti-LGBTQ rights statements in the past. Seattle Police declined an invitation to join the event. Bellevue Police said they were not invited. ...
#532 - Surprised about Portland protests? ‘You don’t know Portland’
May 22, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBThe public expression of objection — otherwise known as a protest — is woven into the very fabric of Portland’s culture. After George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis in May of 2020, Portlanders took to the streets every day for weeks that stretched into months, capturing the nation’s attention even during a pandemic. Shortly after Derrick Chauvin was convicted of the murder, George’s brother Rodney Floyd acknowledged the Portland protests for keeping the issue of racial injustice in the ...
#530 - Seattle 911 response times climbed in summer 2020. Now, police and activists debate what comes next
May 21, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MBOne afternoon last August, Jeanne Tiscareno returned to her Capitol Hill home to find the front door open and the house ransacked. She called 911 and waited on a nearby sidewalk for Seattle police to arrive. One hour passed, then two, with no sign of an officer. When Tiscareno phoned again, a dispatcher told her the call wasn’t a priority. After three-and-a-half hours, a detective working overtime finally showed up. “He was great,” said Tiscareno, 58, a marketing consultant. “I just wish t...
#531 - Lumber Shortage Causing Issues For Those Building Everything From Fences To Homes
May 21, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBThe late-pandemic supply chain crisis never smelled quite as good as it did on Wednesday morning in Searsmont, Maine. The air on the 80-acre campus of Robbins Lumber was thick with the scent of eastern white pine—the tallest trees in the Maine forest—being sliced into boards. Yet the warehouse, a cavernous hangar designed to store pallets of finished lumber for shipment, was virtually empty. The company cannot keep wood on the shelves. “Traditionally, these tiers are about four deep with lu...
#529 - King County Prosecutor reveals homicides, shootings continue to increase
May 20, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBGun violence is up dramatically in Central Puget Sound, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office Crime Strategies Unit report released Tuesday. In the first three months of this year, fatal shootings have increased 34% compared to the last four years, the report found. Black or African American victims were the most predominant, vastly outnumbering all the other demographics. In all, 16 people lost their lives to gun violence since January. Officials say 16-year-old Ear...
#528 - From ‘wonderful’ to ‘war zone’: Portland’s reputation transformation
May 20, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBEverywhere you look, the City of Roses has become the city of trash and filth. Portland may be slowly emerging from the pandemic but the downtown district is fenced off, boarded up and dying. The city’s homeless problem has worsened. Violent protests have damaged the heart of the city and continue to destroy its reputation. And the mayor and other leaders seem overwhelmed, ineffective and ill-equipped to stop it. “I was raised in Portland, Oregon, so to me I think of the old Portland,” sai...
#526 - Public records requests mishandled after Seattle mayor’s texts went missing, commission finds
May 19, 2021 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBSeattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s office mishandled a series of public records requests after discovering that about 10 months of Durkan’s text messages were missing, a whistleblower investigation has determined. The mayor’s legal counsel, Michelle Chen, engaged in improper governmental action when she decided to exclude Durkan’s missing texts from certain requests, violating the state Public Records Act, according to a report on the investigation conducted by an outside expert on behalf of the ...
#527 - Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant admits violating ethics code, fueling recall effort
May 19, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBAs Henry Bridger arrived on Capitol Hill on Saturday to gather signatures for a ballot initiative to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, he trumpeted an admission by the politician that he predicts will help persuade voters to oust her. In a Friday settlement agreement with the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission, Sawant admitted to improperly using city money, employees and other resources to support a proposed ballot measure. She also agreed to pay the city $3,516, about ...
#525 - U.S. Chamber of Commerce blames weak jobs report on enhanced unemployment benefit
May 18, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.8 MBThe largest business lobbying group in America on Friday blamed a $300-per-week federal jobless benefit for enticing Americans to stay at home and April’s far-weaker-than-expected jobs report. “The disappointing jobs report makes it clear that paying people not to work is dampening what should be a stronger jobs market,” the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said in the hours after the Labor Department released its April 2021 employment report. “One step policymakers should take now is ending the $...
#524 - Long Island man dodges eviction for 20 years, living in house he doesn’t own
May 17, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBA Long Island man who only ever made one mortgage payment has deftly used the courts to stay in the house for 23 years — for free, according to legal papers. Guramrit Hanspal, 52, has filed four lawsuits and claimed bankruptcy seven times to avoid being booted from the 2,081-square-foot East Meadow home he “bought” for $290,000 in 1998. So far, it’s worked: Two different banks and a real estate company have owned the three-bedroom, 2.5-bath home since Hanspal was foreclosed upon in 2000. B...
#523 - After a year of protests, Portland residents have waning patience for antifa
May 17, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBRose City Antifa is one of the nation's oldest active antifa groups. Members rarely give interviews, but two who say they are part of antifa agreed to speak to "Nightline" as the situation in their city of Portland, Oregon, has become a prolonged and destructive stalemate. Rose City Antifa members "Milo" and "Ace" use pseudonyms and they asked that their faces and voices be obscured for this report. "The use of violence is a tactic of how we keep our communities safe," Milo said. Much of ...
#522 - Montana plans to cancel unemployment benefits to address ‘severe workforce shortage’
May 16, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBMontana plans to stop some of its federally-funded unemployment benefits to address “the state’s severe workforce shortage,” according to its labor department, which will leave many out-of-work residents without any support at all. “Nearly every sector in our economy faces a labor shortage,” Governor Greg Gianforte said in a statement on Tuesday. “The vast expansion of federal unemployment benefits is now doing more harm than good.” Instead, the state will begin to offer return-to-work bon...
#521 - Goldmark Jewelers closes after 46 years as other Portland business owners contemplate their futures
May 15, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBCal Brockman has spent the last 46 years designing and creating custom jewelry at his downtown Portland store, Goldmark Jewelers. Until last year, he had no plans of vacating his longtime storefront at the corner of Southwest 10th Avenue and Southwest Taylor Street. But foot traffic plummeted downtown after the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while vandalism spiked as nightly protests consumed downtown last summer. Two windows and the glass door at Brockman’s store were shattered on thre...
#520 - Federal Judge Tosses National Eviction Moratorium
May 14, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBA federal judge on Wednesday invalidated a national eviction moratorium after finding that the COVID-19 pandemic policy exceeded the authority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Dabney Friedrich threw out the measure, which was enacted by Congress in March 2020 as part of the CARES Act and later extended by President Biden until June 30, 2021. Lawmakers cited the Public Health Service Act of 1944, which grants the federa...
#519 - Seattle tells homeless campers to clear out after double shooting, fire at Lake City park
May 14, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBIt’s been a troubling past week at Albert Davis Park in Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood. Two people were shot at a homeless encampment on Thursday. Then Friday, a series of propane explosions led to a fire at the park, burning up a tree and several tents. The city of Seattle stated the fire department has responded to the park six times over the course of a single week. “I woke up to my husband yelling, ‘They set the park on fire!’ And I’m like, ‘What?’” said Shannon Ellis-Brock, who live...
#518 - King County announces proposal to bring 500 homeless residents into shelter using federal stimulus
May 13, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 16 MBKing County Executive Dow Constantine announced a $100 million plan Thursday to bring at least 500 people in off the streets of Seattle by the end of the year — one of the most ambitious local plans in scale and timeline announced in a year of big promises to expand housing and shelter. To hit the large target on a short timeline, Constantine said the county plans to use more than $100 million from the estimated $437 million it received in federal dollars through the recently passed America...
#517 - Jamie Dimon, fed up with Zoom calls and remote work, says commuting to offices will make a comeback
May 13, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBJamie Dimon is no fan of the new remote work structure that has taken hold during the coronavirus pandemic. The JPMorgan Chase chairman and CEO has already told his U.S. employees they should begin getting used to returning this month with the goal of having 50% of workers rotating through offices by July. While he’s fine with the greater flexibility allowed by employees working from home part time, he said Tuesday that’s no substitute for being at the office. “We want people back to work,...
#515 - New Study Reveals that Not Prosecuting People for Nonviolent Misdemeanors May Actually Reduce Crime
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MBOn April 11 Daunte Wright was pulled over by officers from the Brooklyn Center Police in Minnesota because he was driving with an expired vehicle registration. In Minnesota, having expired vehicle registration is a misdemeanor offense. When officers approached Mr. Wright’s car, they observed an object hanging from his rearview mirror. In Minnesota, driving a vehicle with an object suspended from the rearview mirror is a petty misdemeanor offense. After asking to see Mr. Wright’s driver’s...
#516 - Chocolati Cafe staffer who denied Seattle cop service is out of a job
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBA rude, cop-hating employee is out of a job at Seattle’s Chocolati Cafe in Wallingford after denying service to a police officer and a trainee. According to the cafe’s owner, the female staffer refused service because of her ideology. Last Tuesday, the pair visited the shop to purchase a box of chocolates but was initially ignored. After finally getting the unidentified female staffer’s attention, she reportedly told them she wouldn’t serve them. The officer and trainee were shocked at the ...
#514 - San Francisco Feels a Tax-Base Chill With First Drop in 25 Years
May 12, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBFor the first time in more than 25 years, San Francisco is forecasting that its property tax base will fall -- a decline that reflects the tough straits of the city that is among the hardest hit by the pandemic downturn. That tax base, the real estate values the city uses to calculate taxes, rarely drops even in the worst of times, thanks to a quirk in California law dating back to 1978. Not even the dot-com bust or the 2008 financial crisis was capable of nudging it lower. But the virus t...
#513 - Mother of 19-year-old killed during CHOP sues Seattle, claims officials invited ‘lawlessness’
May 11, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe mother of a 19-year-old Seattle man fatally shot during last summer’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) has filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city, alleging officials were negligent in allowing Seattle police to abandon the department’s East Precinct and surrounding area, a decision that invited “lawlessness and … a foreseeable danger” that led to his death. Donnitta Sinclair, whose son Horace Lorenzo Anderson was shot and mortally wounded across the street from Cal A...
#512 - Downtown Seattle price reductions show buyers have the upper hand
May 11, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe pandemic hit Seattle's downtown property market hard, which is good news for buyers Could Seattle's downtown property market downturn be a good thing for buyers? Yes, if it means reduced prices — and right now, it does. When the pandemic went from what we all assumed would be a few weeks into months and months, city dwellers took their work-from-home lifestyle away from America's downtowns, sometimes away from cities all together. Now, over a year later, and even as the pandemic contin...
#511 - 'The hits just keep coming': Portland restaurateur gets brutally honest about latest shutdown
May 10, 2021 22:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBAs 15 Oregon counties move into extreme risk, restaurants have closed their indoor dining rooms. Kurt Huffman, the owner of Portland restaurant investment company ChefStable, joined KGW's live streaming digital show Sunrise Extra to talk about what what these new restrictions mean for the industry. ChefStable partners with chefs to design, build and operate restaurants. They take care of all the operational details to let the chefs focus on the food and quality. Huffman is in partnership wi...
#510 - 'Mom And Pop' Landlords Dying On The Vine As Un-Evictable Tenants Enjoy Pandemic Protections
May 10, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBAs millions of renters across America continue to benefit from sweeping protections against eviction during the COVID-19 pandemic, their landlords haven't been so fortunate. According to Bloomberg, nearly $47 billion in rent relief from the Biden Administration has been slow to materialize, forcing "mom-and-pop" landlords into financial hardship - or forced to sell to wealthy investors. Bloomberg, perhaps to invoke sympathy for the landlord class, focused on the impact felt by minority land...
#509 - Downtown Portland businesses reeling, again, after latest spate of vandalism
May 09, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.7 MBJohn Helmer III covered the windows of his hat and apparel shop in downtown Portland with fabric every night last summer. By doing so, he hoped to prevent his shop from becoming a target for vandalism while avoiding the cost and eyesore of putting boards over his windows. As protests died down in the fall, Helmer decided those measures were no longer necessary. And earlier in April he noticed an increase in sales and foot traffic around his store, giving him hope that normal conditions migh...
#508 - MacKenzie Scott Gave Away Billions. The Scam Artists Followed
May 08, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBShe has no large foundation, headquarters or public website. That makes it easier to dispense money on her own terms — and for others to prey on the vulnerable in her name. Danielle Churchill needed help. She was raising five children in Wollongong, on the Australian coast south of Sydney, and had to cover thousands of dollars in special therapy fees for her 10-year-old son, Lachlan, who has autism. She tried crowdfunding on the site GoFundMe, but raised just a tiny fraction of what she had...
#506 - California to lose a congressional seat, according to new census data
May 07, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBCalifornia will lose one seat in Congress for the first time in state history, while Texas and Florida are among the states that will see their representation increase, according to population data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Monday that give the first glimpse of the coming decade’s congressional landscape. The new apportionment figures — which use the decennial head count to allocate representation in the U.S. House of Representatives across the states — are a crucial building bl...
#507 - Millennials are getting screwed again by their 2nd housing crisis in 12 years
May 07, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBAmerica is running out of houses amid a historic housing shortage and record-high selling prices. A recent bank note from Jefferies said the US was short 2.5 million homes, while Freddie Mac put that estimate higher at a shortage of 3.8 million. There are 40% fewer homes on the market than last year, a Black Knight report found. It's bad news for many aspiring homebuyers - but especially for millennials. It's just the latest chapter in a long line of bad economic luck. Join your host Sean...
#505 - Joe Rogan Tries to Clarify Controversial Comments About COVID Vaccines
May 07, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBJoe Rogan attempted to clear the air over his controversial statements suggesting that young people should not get vaccinated for COVID-19. In Thursday’s episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” on Spotify, the hugely popular podcaster maintained that he is not an anti-vaxxer — and he admitted that it “makes sense” for even young, healthy people to get vaccinated in the interests of public health. “I’m not an anti-vax person. In fact, I said I believe they’re safe and I encourage many people ...
#504 - Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz: Agency experiencing 'staffing crisis'
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBActing Seattle Police Department Chief Adrian Diaz told KOMO News Tuesday that his department is experiencing a staffing crisis as it looks to fill vacant positions that have resulted from officers leaving the agency to pursue jobs with other agencies. According to new data, the agency has shed roughly 200 in-service officers since the beginning of 2019 but Diaz said they currently have 1,080 officers ready to deploy. Diaz, who was tapped to fill the role after former Chief Carmen Best ret...
#503 - MIT researchers say time spent indoors increases risk of Covid in new study
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 34 minutes - 24.2 MBThe risk of being exposed to Covid-19 indoors can be as great at 60 feet as it is at 6 feet in a room where the air is mixed — even when wearing a mask, according to a new study by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers who challenge social distancing guidelines adopted across the world. MIT professors Martin Z. Bazant, who teaches chemical engineering and applied mathematics, and John W.M. Bush, who teaches applied mathematics, developed a method of calculating exposure risk to ...
#502 - Police Seek Person Who Shot 2 in Homeless Camping Area
May 05, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBTwo people were shot at a homeless encampment in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood Thursday, police said. Police were searching for a suspect described as a man in his mid- to late-20s who possibly fled in a white Dodge sedan, The Seattle Times reported. Police said the person walked into an encampment and opened fire into a car around 8:30 a.m. Thursday. A 28-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man taken to Harborview Medical Center with gunshot wounds. Police said the man was in critical c...
#501 - Military families are 'going to lose every time' in hot real-estate market, as sellers shun VA loans
May 05, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBReal-estate agent Melissa McHarney was told to make an offer on a house in Durham, North Carolina, for $60,000 over the asking price. She told her client, who was using a government-backed home loan provided by Veterans' Affairs, that it wasn't a smart idea financially. The client told her to do it anyway. "We didn't win," McHarney said. In the end, the seller took the conventional offer over the VA offer. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Ap...
#500 - As precious metals prices soar, so do catalytic converter thefts
May 05, 2021 10:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBJean Bentley is a retired nurse from St. Paul, Minnesota, who, back in January, picked up a shift at a nearby clinic that was short-staffed for the day. When her shift was over a little after 5 p.m., she walked out to the parking lot to start her car. “And it was just that bhrum, bhrum, bhrum, bhrum, bhrum,” she said, “like you don’t have a muffler.” Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content librar...
#498 - Housing market hits 'fever pitch,' prices likely to increase more
May 04, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBMore than a year into the pandemic, real estate experts say the housing market is hotter than ever, and buyers are left with many challenges to navigate. Jennie Huynh grew up in Portland and bought her first home in November. She and her partner had to make offers on six houses before an offer was accepted in Hillsboro. "Honestly really brutal," Huynh said of the months spent house hunting. "We were definitely having to throw some elbows to end up with the house." Shannon Janssen, a realt...
#499 - Auburn council OKs 'tough love' ordinance for homeless who repeatedly refuse help offers
May 04, 2021 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBAuburn City Council members voted Monday evening to adopt a so-called “tough love” ordinance that would allow police to issue criminal trespass citations and impose fines on homeless people who repeatedly refuse offers of shelter or services from the city that could help get them off the streets. The measure was approved by a 4-3 vote as some council members insisted that threats of incarceration would not help those experiencing homelessness. Auburn Mayor Nancy Backus said the intent of t...
#497 - Antifa Makes Bad Move Attacking Cop in Portland
May 04, 2021 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.2 MBThe verdict came in the trial of Derek Chauvin yesterday. He was found guilty on all three counts in the death of George Floyd. But BLM and Antifa folks who claimed that they had been marching for “justice” were still not happy, with many of them calling for the elimination of policing completely. In Portland, they proved with their actions, once again, how much policing is in fact needed. They called for “rage,” no matter what the verdict turned out to be yesterday. Join your host Sean R...
#496 - Seattle Police Department details changes since George Floyd’s death
May 03, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBMoments after a judge read the jury’s verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, the Seattle Police Department released a statement listing the changes it’s made in the past year. SPD described Floyd’s murder as “a watershed moment for America,” stating that real change has sprung from that pain, and noting that the community’s expectations of policing have been made clear. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this develo...