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#400 - Boeing Staff Told to Empty Renton Longacres HQ by April, Fueling Deal Rumors
February 26, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 11 MBBoeing workers have been told to clear out their belongings from the jet maker's Longacres headquarters in Renton by the end of March, suggesting a sale of the $100 million office complex is coming this spring. Two sources with knowledge of the matter told the Business Journal about the order to vacate, speaking on condition they weren't identified because they're not authorized to speak about the matter publicly. "Everybody has been told to get in there, collect your stuff and get it out,...
#397 - State Capital Gains Tax Bill Changes Shape as it Moves Through Lawmaking Process
February 25, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBA Senate bill that would impose a tax on capital gains in Washington state looked much different from its original form when it passed out of the Senate Ways & Means Committee Tuesday evening. With the changes, the new proposal is predicted to bring in less revenue than the original and affect fewer taxpayers. The bill was requested by the Office of Financial Management and was part of Gov. Jay Inslee’s proposed operating budget. It originally proposed a 9% tax on capital gains earnings — ...
#396 - Facebook Bans News in Australia as Fight with Government Escalates
February 25, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBWhat is Facebook without news? People and publishers in Australia are now finding out. Facebook (FB) has barred Australians from finding or sharing news on its service, a dramatic escalation of a fight with the government that may have wide-ranging consequences both in the country and around the world. The social networking company on Wednesday said that people and publishers in Australia will no longer be able to share or see any news from local or international outlets. The decision appe...
#398 - Seattle Developer to Sell Upscale, Just-Finished Capitol Hill Apartments for Low-Income Housing
February 25, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.3 MBA “rare opportunity” on Capitol Hill will transform a just-finished apartment building planned for upscale market-rate rentals into affordable housing for people who are currently homeless. The developer of the 76-unit Clay apartments plans to sell the building to the Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) for about $18.2 million, said LIHI Director Sharon Lee. LIHI expects to house 75 people, including 20 homeless veterans, Lee said. The sale, expected to close next month, is an unusual deal...
#393 - Mercer Island Approves Ordinance Barring People From Camping on Public Property
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBMercer Island City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance barring people from camping or storing personal items on public property. The proposal -- which passed in a 6-1 vote -- was approved after hours of public comment from people on both sides of the issue, with some arguing the proposal criminalized homelessness and didn't address the underlying problems, and others saying the city needs to make sure parks remain safe and accessible at all times. The ordinance makes camping on public...
#395 - QFC to Close Two Seattle Stores, Blames City’s New $4 Hazard Pay Law
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MBThe heated debate over Seattle’s $4-an-hour hazard pay law for grocery workers escalated sharply this week. On Tuesday, QFC announced it would close two Seattle locations by April 24 — and blamed the move, in part, on the new law. Although QFC acknowledged that both locations — at 416 15th Avenue East on Capitol Hill and at 8400 35th Ave. NE in Wedgwood — were “underperforming,” the decision to close them was “accelerated” by Seattle’s hazard pay law, which the City Council approved Jan. 2...
#394 - One Night With the Man Who Puts Plywood on Portland’s Smashed Windows
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBPortland protesters held a snowball fight. About 75 people—some dressed in black bloc, others wearing '80s-style ski suits—gathered in Director Park for what was cheekily billed as "Antifa Snow Day." Tamales were served; so was beer. Around 10 pm, a smaller group set out for the Portland Police Bureau's Central Precinct. Not long after, somebody started shattering windows: at a ZoomCare clinic, then a Starbucks. That's when Starbucks received help. John, 42, drove in from his home in Orego...
#392 - Seattle's Core Apartment Market is 'Brutal' For Landlords
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBA glut of new supply has hit the in-city market, but the booming Eastside isn't immune either, new data shows. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store.ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.com/ 💬 JOIN our FREE Discord Community! Share stories, chat with fellow enthusiast...
#391 - Former Director of Seattle Human Services Answers Why The City Spends So Much Without A Fix
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBA year ago this month, Jason Johnson — the leader of the Seattle Human Services Department, which manages potentially the largest city budget for homelessness in the Pacific Northwest, announced he would resign. The same day, mere miles away, COVID-19 claimed its first victim in the U.S. Johnson, who was to be a temporary department head, quickly realized he couldn’t step down just yet. Coronavirus turned Johnson’s world — and the world of everyone who works fighting homelessness — upside ...
#390 - More Businesses Flee Seattle Because of Crime and Violence
February 23, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 19.3 MBTR International, a global chemical distributor, is moving from its home of more than two decades in downtown Seattle, crossing the county line to neighboring Edmonds. The company is one of at least 160 businesses that have left Seattle since last March. While some of the companies that have left Seattle is due to the coronavirus pandemic, business leaders have said that much of it could be traced back to a sense that no one is minding the store in Seattle anymore, and a lack of accountabi...
#388 - Seattle Businesses Flee After Surge In Crime
February 22, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB“I really loved our downtown Seattle location,” said TRInternational CEO Megan Gluth-Bohan, who recently relocated her business to Edmonds. “But with street crime on the rise, our employees and out-of-town customers were feeling increasingly unsafe — and the political will to change things just isn’t there.” A world-class distributor of raw materials since 1994, TRInternational maintains branch offices in Shanghai and Seoul, and conducts business on every continent. The company is focused o...
#388 - Seattle Businesses Flee After Surge In Crime
February 22, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB“I really loved our downtown Seattle location,” said TRInternational CEO Megan Gluth-Bohan, who recently relocated her business to Edmonds. “But with street crime on the rise, our employees and out-of-town customers were feeling increasingly unsafe — and the political will to change things just isn’t there.” A world-class distributor of raw materials since 1994, TRInternational maintains branch offices in Shanghai and Seoul, and conducts business on every continent. The company is focused o...
#389 - Judge Warns Seattle City Council Tread Carefully Defunding Police or Risk Violating Consent Decree
February 22, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13.2 MBThe federal judge overseeing police reforms in Seattle fired a shot across the bow of the Seattle City Council and its efforts to defund the Police Department on Thursday, saying those actions could put the city at risk of running afoul of a federal consent decree. U.S. District Judge James Robart said it appears the council, which imposed police budget and salary cuts in the wake of protests this summer, may have “lost sight of the fact” that the 8-year-old agreement between the city and D...
#387 - Minneapolis to Spend $6.4M to Recruit More Police Officers
February 21, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBMinneapolis is planning to spend $6.4 million to hire dozens of police officers, at a time when some City Council members and activist groups have been advocating to replace the police department following George Floyd’s death. The City Council voted unanimously Friday to approve the additional funding that police requested. The department says it only has 638 officers available to work — roughly 200 fewer than usual. An unprecedented number of officers quit or went on extended medical leav...
#386 - Audit in California Should Finds Billions of Dollars Spent on Failed System
February 19, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBCalifornia has spent $13 billion in the last three years to tackle a massive homelessness problem likely to worsen with the pandemic, yet its approach is so fragmented and incomplete as to hinder efforts at getting people into stable housing, the state auditor said in a report released Thursday. The office of State Auditor Elaine Howle said that California continues to have the largest homeless population in the nation “likely in part because its approach to addressing homelessness has been...
#385 - Oregon Tenants Owe $378 Million in Back Rent, PSU Study Finds
February 19, 2021 11:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBTenants in Oregon owe $378 million in back rent, according to a new study by Portland State University. While that’s a lot of money, the study points to even bigger losses if lawmakers don’t act. Right now, 89,000 people have fallen behind on rent payments because of the coronavirus pandemic. They’ve been allowed to stay in their homes because of an eviction moratorium that runs out in July. The study says the deadline will need to be extended in order to head off $3 billion in spending o...
#384 - Turmoil Surfaces in Seattle City Council’s Push to Reimagine Public Safety
February 18, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBLast fall, in one of the bigger victories for the movement to defund the Seattle Police Department, the Seattle City Council awarded a $3 million contract to a community coalition to research new ways to assure public safety. That coalition, King County Equity Now (KCEN), was a leading organizing force behind last summer’s protests against systemic racism and police brutality and one of the most prominent voices behind the push to defund the police. But the city-funded research project has...
#383 - King County Sees Dramatic Spike in Catalytic Converter Thefts
February 18, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.8 MBAuthorities are seeing a dramatic increase in catalytic converter thefts all across King County and the Greater Seattle area. But with few arrests, it's also becoming one of the most difficult crimes to solve. The King County Sheriff’s office provided us with a surveillance video showing an alleged crook, removing a catalytic converter in less than 10 seconds. Investigators say a similar crime happened in a car lot at the Chevy dealership in Burien. And at nearby Toyota, manager Tom Magge...
#382 - Jeff Bezos Would Owe $2 Billion a Year in State Taxes if Washington Passes Wealth Tax
February 17, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBJeff Bezos would owe about $2 billion a year in state income taxes under Washington’s proposed wealth tax, according to legislators. As part of an effort to reduce inequality and offset the state’s lack of an income tax, Washington state legislators are proposing a 1% levy on wealth over $1 billion. Lawmakers say the tax would raise about $2.5 billion a year in revenue and would only apply to so-called nontangible financial assets, or financial investments like stocks or options. Yet tax e...
#381 - Plunge in Portland Building Permits Signals Major Slowdown in Housing & Development
February 17, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MBThe number of new building permits filed in Portland last year plunged by 27%, falling even below the trough of the Great Recession. A slowdown was already underway before the coronavirus pandemic hit, following a boom in new hotel and office construction in downtown Portland and new regulations on apartment builders. Then COVID-19 hit and protests rocked the downtown core, accelerating the falloff. “There’s three or four different things that all kind of happened in quick succession as th...
#378 - GameStop Highlights the Folly of Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MBImagine a mark-to-market capital gains tax, like the one proposed in New York, generating liability in a GameStop-style situation where retail investors have shares that have soared in value by orders of magnitude, get taxed on those gains, and then hold on too long and sell as the stock crashes back to earth. Whether you see the GameStop saga as a Robin Hood-style victory for the little guys or as a case of disruptive investor hysteria, it provides an interesting case study in just how badl...
#380 - Bank of America Customers Furious After Data Shared with Federal Investigators
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBAmericans are furious following Fox News’ report that Bank of America may have handed private customer information over to the U.S. government related to the Capitol Hill riot. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday night that Bank of America, at the request of federal investigators, combed through customer data in search of people and transactions that fit a certain profile – potentially placing individuals at the Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6 riot. More than 200 people were rep...
#379 - Mayor and City Council President Collide Over Policing, With Focus on Crime in Chinatown
February 16, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBAt a Wednesday press conference in Chinatown to discuss a series of disturbing robberies and assaults targeting Asian seniors and neighborhood shops, Mayor Libby Schaaf criticized City Council President Nikki Fortunato Bas’s approach to public safety. With Bas standing behind her at the gathering, Schaaf said that a budget proposal drafted by Bas last summer—a plan that was voted down—would have cut police services and made crime in Chinatown even worse. Bas, whose district includes Chinato...
#375 - Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Talks Violence, Protests & Whether City is ‘Dying’
February 15, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBPortland Mayor Ted Wheeler sat down (remotely) with KOIN 6 News Thursday to answer our questions about skyrocketing gun violence in the city, protests, livability issues, and the increasingly hostile political climate that has resulted in the mayor hiring security to accompany him when he’s out in public. Q: At various times in the past couple months there have been talks about bringing the Gun Violence Reduction Team or something similar back. Where do those talks stand now and do you beli...
#376 - WeWork Will Close U.S. Custom House Co-working Space, Latest Blow to Portland’s Core
February 15, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBWeWork is preparing to close at least one and possibly two of its big co-working offices near downtown Portland, the latest blow to the city’s struggling core business district. The Portland Business Journal reported Friday that WeWork notified a Portland tenant that its flagship U.S. Custom House facility will close at the end of February. A second tenant confirmed receiving the same message from WeWork. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appr...
#377 - Seattle’s Newest Billionaire Says Tax Talk Will Drive Business Away
February 15, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBTanium co-founder and CEO Orion Hindawi may not be as well known as Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates or other Seattle area billionaires. After all, it was just a few months ago that Hindawi and his family left the San Francisco Bay Area for Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood, bringing his $9 billion cybersecurity company to the region along with him. So far, Hindawi seems to be fitting in pretty well, even though he admits it’s a strange time to get to know a new city. He’s not yet en...
#374 - Seattle Housing Market Update - February 2021
February 14, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.1 MBTake an in-depth look a the red hot Seattle Real Estate Market based on the Northwest Multiple Listing Association End of month statistics. Homebuyers who have been precluded from entering Puget Sound’s competitive market may want to consider condominiums as an option, according to industry experts who commented on the latest housing statistics from Northwest Multiple Listing Service. “With the trend toward telecommuting and moving to outlying suburban areas, the Seattle/King County condom...
#372 -Grocery Industry Sues Seattle Over New $4 Hazard-Pay Law
February 11, 2021 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBTwo Northwest grocery industry trade groups are suing Seattle over the city’s new law mandating $4-an-hour pay raises for grocery stores. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges the city’s law interferes with the collective-bargaining process between grocery stores and unions and also “picks winners and losers” by singling out large grocery companies. Seattle’s law, passed last week, went into effect Wednesday. The Northwest Grocery Association and the Washi...
#373 - Nordstrom to Move Out of One Downtown Seattle Office Tower
February 11, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBAfter a year that saw the Seattle-born retailer lay off workers and close stores, Nordstrom said Tuesday it will leave its offices on Seventh Avenue near Olive Way downtown, where it occupies a large part of a 24-story tower. In a statement, the company framed the move as a chance to rethink office work post-pandemic. “As we think about returning to our corporate offices later this year, we find ourselves with the rare opportunity to reimagine how these teams will work and collaborate in t...
#370 - Boeing Giving Employee Bonuses Despite Losing $12B Last Year
February 10, 2021 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.9 MBBOEING Co. has said it will dole out annual performance bonuses next month to most employees despite losing $12 billion over the last year during the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the company's employees did not receive annual bonuses last year after it lost $636 million in 2019 because of the grounding of the 737 MAX by the Federal Aviation Administration, The Seattle Times reported. In response, the company in February changed the structure of its incentive plan, tying its financial goal...
#371 - Proposed ‘Billionaire Tax’ Heads to Olympia, as Washington Democrats Seek to Revamp Tax System
February 10, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBA new idea to flip Washington’s regressive tax system goes straight to the top: it seeks to tax the state’s billionaires. Sponsored by Rep. Noel Frame, D-Seattle, House Bill 1406 would apply a 1% tax on a state resident’s taxable intangible wealth above $1 billion. If passed, the tax, which would impact fewer than 100 people — but would raise a torrent of money. A fiscal analysis of the bill estimates it would bring in $4.95 billion in the 2023-25 budget cycle. That’s equal to nearly 10% ...
#369 - Coronavirus infections Down 30% Over the Last 3 Weeks While Hospitalizations are Down 21%
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.4 MBCoronavirus cases across the United States are continuing to plummet even as deaths from the virus continue to hold steady. On Friday, a total of 164,665 new infections were reported, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, which much lower than the 274,703 infections that were recorded just three weeks ago Although the Friday total is higher than the totals over the last few days, the figure is closer to what was seen in mid-November before the post-holiday surges. What's mo...
#368 - Officers Pull Woman From Bedroom Window After She Was Shot Multiple Times in NE Portland
February 09, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBA woman was shot multiple times early Tuesday morning in Northeast Portland, police said. The woman called 911 at 3:16 a.m. and told dispatch she woke up to gun fire coming into her bedroom at her home in the 5200 block of Northeast 91st Avenue. She said she'd been shot five times and was in her bed but couldn't move. She also told dispatch that she had two pit bulls in the house. Because of the dogs and because they had little time to act, the officers went into the victim's bedroom throu...
#367 - Judge Orders Seattle to Pay Nearly $82,000 to BLM Lawyers for Costs of Case Against Police
February 08, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.8 MBThe city of Seattle must pay $81,997.12 to attorneys for Black Lives Matter to cover their fees and costs in pursuing contempt-of-court violations against the Seattle Police Department for the improper use of pepper spray and blast balls against peaceful protesters. The amount arrived at by U.S. District Judge Richard Jones was significantly less than the nearly $264,000 in fees and costs being sought by lawyers for BLM-Seattle and King County after Jones found police had violated his injun...
#365 - New York Gov. Cuomo Accused of Undercounting Nursing Home Deaths in Wake of Report
February 08, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBNew York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his administration faced a barrage of criticism in the wake of a report from his own state attorney general claiming that the state had undercounted Covid-19 nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent. The state's public death toll for nursing homes does not include residents who died from the coronavirus after having been transferred to hospitals, only deaths that occurred at facilities. Attorney General Letitia James' report examined 62 nursing homes — abo...
#366 - Data Breach of 1.6M Washington Residents Who Filed for Unemployment
February 08, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBThe Washington State Auditor’s Office said a data breach compromised the personal information of 1.6 million residents who filed for unemployment last year. The breach also may have exposed information from some state agencies and local governments. State Auditor Pat McCarthy said the breach may have affected people who filed for unemployment between Jan. 1 to Dec. 10, 2020. The compromised data includes names, social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, bank information and place ...
#363 - Portland's Cleaning More Trash off the Streets Than Ever, But You Wouldn't Know it
February 07, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBThe city of Portland is on track to clean more garbage off the streets this fiscal year than it ever has before, but ask most Portlanders and they’ll tell you: it doesn’t look like it. KGW put out a call on Facebook, asking Portlanders to pinpoint the areas that frustrate them most. Hundreds of responses poured in. "Naito between the Tillicum Crossing and the Marriott ... all along SW 10th Ave. So many places. Around any church downtown,” wrote Susan, commenting on the post. “Division Str...
#364 - Biden Pick to Run Unemployment Program Oversaw $600M in Losses to Nigerian Fraud Scheme
February 07, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBSuzi LeVine, the departing head of Washington state’s Employment Security Department (ESD), reportedly will run a federal agency office that assists states in processing unemployment claims. But LeVine’s transition into the Biden administration role comes amid an unemployment fraud scandal at her state-level department that cost Washington state over $600 million. The fraudulent unemployment claims were believed to be linked to a well-organized Nigerian fraud ring using identities stolen ...
#362 - Arrests After Homeless Activists Try to Occupy Red Lion Hotel in WA
February 06, 2021 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBPolice said they arrested at least three people in Olympia, Washington, after a group that advocates for the homeless tried to occupy a hotel, prompting guests and staffers to shelter in place for several hours. Olympia Police Lt. Paul Lower said employees of the Red Lion Inn & Suites, began calling for help at 11 a.m. Sunday after several people, one of whom was wielding a hatchet while others brandished batons and knives, entered the facility. KOMO reports one hotel worker who tried to s...
#360 - Boxer or Spectacle? Inside the Attraction of YouTuber Turned Fighter Jake Paul
February 05, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 22.2 MBDEWEY COOPER STEPPED into the Bones Adams Boxing gym in Las Vegas last fall. The former pro boxer, kickboxer and longtime striking coach was there to referee a sparring session for Jake Paul, the popular YouTuber turned boxing hopeful. Cooper had seen Paul spar before and had come away fairly impressed. On this day, though, Paul would be boxing against a veteran Romanian kickboxer who Cooper figured would be "too aggressive and experienced" for the 23-year-old. Paul dropped the kickboxer w...
#361 - Popular Portland Restaurant Group is Moving to the Suburbs
February 05, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes - 21.5 MBA group of popular Portland restaurants will open new locations in the suburbs. That includes places like St. Jack, Grassa, Lardo, as well as Oven and Shaker. The ChefSable group will start takeout at a new Lake Oswego location in April, with an official opening for seating in June. The restaurant owners said people in the suburbs appear to be less cautious about going out. Kurt Huffman of ChefStable said he expects those businesses will rebound faster than ones in the city during recovery...
#358 - Oregon Health Authority No Longer Reporting Details About Individual Coronavirus-Related Deaths
February 04, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MBEleven months since the first COVID-19 case was reported in Oregon, the state’s health agency says it will no longer share details about individual deaths connected to the virus. The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) announced the change on Wednesday. Prior to Wednesday, OHA had reported basic details about every COVID-19-linked death in the state since the first death was reported on March 14, 2020. Those details included age, which county the person lived in, when they tested positive for the...
#359 - California Gov Gavin Newsom Recall Closes in on Signature Count with Weeks to go. Is it enough?
February 04, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.4 MBOn a blustery Saturday afternoon, opponents of Gov. Gavin Newsom set up shop in the parking lot of a Rancho Cordova sporting goods store. Under a small blue canopy adorned with yellow balloons and vinyl banners, volunteers for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign welcomed passing shoppers, handing them clipboards and encouraging them to sign their petitions to remove the Democratic governor from office. Some drivers honked in support. Others waved and said they’ve already signed. Join your hos...
#357 - Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Pepper-sprayed Man Who Refused to 'Back Off' While Filming Him
February 03, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MBOn Sunday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler was walking outside a craft brewery on the Oregon city’s southwest side when a man walked up to him and shouted, “Thanks for ruining the city!” Moments later, the Democratic mayor blasted the man in the eyes with pepper spray. “Oh my God!” the man cried in an audio recording of the encounter published by the Willamette Week. “Wow ... I can’t see. The mayor has just thrown something at me.” The encounter between Wheeler and the unidentified man was rec...
#356 - Boeing Suffers Massive $11.9 Billion Loss in 2020, Largest in its History
February 03, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBHit both by the grounding of the 737 MAX and the global pandemic that paralyzed its airline customers, Boeing suffered a massive net loss last year of $11.9 billion, the largest in its history. In a message to employees Wednesday morning, chief executive Dave Calhoun called 2020 “a year of profound societal and global disruption, which significantly impacted our industry.” The loss was amplified by a $6.5 billion write-off on the 777X program. And the company reported $1.8 billion in addi...
#355 - WA Landlord Unable to Get Rent or Evict Criminal Tenant for Nine Months
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 11 minutes - 8.26 MBA few weeks ago, Governor Inslee extended the Washington state eviction moratorium until March 31. Dori spoke with a landlord in Blaine who depends on income from rental property, and is suffering major financial issues as a result of the eviction ban. “We own a small duplex in Blaine, Washington, which is part of our retirement income, and the other is Social Security,” she said. “And we had a really good tenant in one side, and she had a stroke and was moved out to be with her family. She...
#354 - Downtown Portland Sees BIG Drop in Pedestrians
February 02, 2021 11:00 - 20 minutes - 14.6 MBPedestrian counts in downtown Portland saw a precipitous drop during last month's holiday shopping season, according to figures released by the Portland Business Alliance and the Downtown Portland Clean & Safe District. Pedestrian counts are taken every June and December in Portland. According to Downtown Portland Clean & Safe, the average number of people that pass through a typical corner during the second weekend of December is 11,621. But the count last month only saw 1,738 pedestrian...
#352 - Seattle Renters’ Commission Issues Statement Endorsing Cancel Rent and Mortgages WA Movement
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 25 minutes - 17.5 MBMembers of the Seattle Renters’ Commission have issued a statement endorsing Cancel Rent and Mortgages WA, part of a national movement calling for the cancelation of rent, mortgages, utilities and all related debt for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. Excerpts from letter: “Failure to cancel rent and mortgages in Washington increases the burden and risk to our lowest income neighbors as they deal with the economic consequences of our nation’s utter failure to address the COVID-19 pandem...
#353 - Seattle Police Chief Announces Tougher Policy of Prosecuting Protesters Who Vandalize
February 01, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBPeople who destroy property during street protests will be arrested and prosecuted under a tighter new policy coordinated with Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, interim police Chief Adrian Diaz announced Saturday. The enforcement was to begin Saturday afternoon, when a demonstration was set for Occidental Square. However, it’s unclear what if anything will be different. Holmes wasn’t at the news conference and in a statement, his office said misdemeanor policies are the same. No documen...
#351 - Lawyers Advise Ethiopian Not to Settle with Boeing After 737 MAX Crash
January 31, 2021 11:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBAmerican attorneys for Ethiopian Airlines, which lost 157 passengers and crew in the second fatal crash of a Boeing 737 MAX in early 2019, have advised the carrier not to accept a settlement Boeing has offered but instead to sue the manufacturer for punitive damages in the U.S. In an urgently worded letter sent Sunday, the Chicago-based attorneys warned Ethiopian CEO Tewolde GebreMariam that the offer falls “grossly short” of what the airline could win before a U.S. jury — particularly sinc...