About a dozen representatives from the Washington State House Democratic Caucus signed on to a letter calling for the House Finance committee to pass the millionaires tax WITHOUT the corporate giveaway baked in. This marks a huge shift in the discourse surrounding the tax — Republican opponents, tepid supporter Bob Ferguson, and its Democrat sponsors in the Senate have hardly mentioned the half a billion dollar tax break for big business. The debate will lay bare who is a f

Supporters of the millionaires tax under consideration in the Washington State Legislature say the tidal wave of opposition in the bill’s public sign-ins may not reflect genuine public sentiment, but a spam campaign inflating the right’s numbers with tens of thousands of duplicates and at least 100 falsified entries. Even one of the bill’s sponsors, Sen. Victoria Hunt (D-Issaquah), was falsely signed in as opposing the bill she voted out of her chamber earlier this month — tw

A central promise  of Katie Wilson’s mayoral campaign was to add 1,000 units of shelter by the end of 2026. It’s a promise Seattle desperately needs her to keep. After declaring a state of emergency  on homelessness over a decade ago, our city has failed to expand shelter capacity at the pace and scale required to tackle the crisis. As a result, homelessness in King County has increased year over year  since the state of emergency was declared. Shelter expansion is obviously