The upcoming Families, Education, Preschool, Promise Levy (FEPP) renewal is raising questions about how the City of Seattle wants the Seattle Police Department to interact with Seattle Public Schools. Unclear to what degree SPD may benefit from the proposed $235 million in funding for school safety, public commenters at Monday’s public hearing urged the council to reject funneling education levy dollars into the SPD’s already bloated budget. 

Last week’s meeting wasn’t a fluke: Former Council Member Kshama Sawant and her band of socialists have declared war on the Seattle City...

The Seattle City Council held its first meeting related to Council Members Sara Nelson and Cathy Moore’s bill to lower the ethical standards so members can vote in their own financial interest Thursday afternoon. But not before a tense encounter with a familiar face, one many members likely see more often in their nightmares.

Photo credit: Be:Seattle Sorry Council Member Cathy Moore, but your ploy to revise the City’s ethics codes may be an ethical violation in...

On this episode of The Burner, we’re joined by Max and Ruby, the student organizers behind the recent occupation of a Boeing-funded...

In 2013, when a skronky lil tune called “Thrift Shop” topped the charts, Seattle-based rapper Macklemore, AKA Benjamin Hammond Haggerty, tweeted an “OFFICIAL” announcement that he would run for Mayor in 2025. Well, here we are, two studio albums and four Seattle Mayors later, on the filing deadline for the 2025 election without Haggerty signed up to run. Barring some drastic change of heart (and international tour schedule) in the next few hours, it looks like City Hall “Can

Brooks sees a parallel between how the cops treated her over the weekend with how they bully people living unhoused in Seattle, or those using drugs on the street, or sex workers in Aurora, or the student at the University of Washington who occupied the Boeing-funded building on campus.  She understands not everyone can risk arrest, but she wonders what would have happened to her Sunday if a few more people had stood with her and refused to put their clothes back on.

While the news from the student paper to national broadcasts talk about the action, supporters for the first time got to hear from protesters for the first time. 

Nude Tanning Is Not "Indecent Exposure." In a public meeting Wednesday evening, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes said his officers were...

What does the Trump administration and the University of Washington have in common? They both vilify student-led, anti-war movements that in 50 years every liberal institution will inevitably pretend they always supported.