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Today is Bruce Harrell's first Monday as the mayor of Seattle. He's taking over during a difficult time for the city: Omicron is pushing caseloads and infecting vaccinated people; homelessness is a monumental and growing issue without clear solutions, and the city's future of policing is still up in the air.
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Jenny Durkan has been mayor of Seattle during a time of incredible change. She oversaw the city's initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic, protests against racist policing and the controversy over police tactics that followed. On Friday at the stroke of midnight, she passes that responsibility on to Bruce Harrell.
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A completed report on Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan’s missing text messages from a period during last year’s racial justice protests has yet to appear as Durkan prepares to leave office.
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The family of Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old Black mother of four killed by Seattle police four years ago, has reached a $3.5 million settlement with the city.
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Seattle City Council President Lorena González has conceded the mayor’s race, after an updated vote tally on Thursday showed former Council President Bruce Harrell with an insurmountable lead.
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A new bill signed by the City of Seattle will allow the Seattle Storm to build their own practice facility. The four-time WNBA champions currently practice at Seattle Pacific University.
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The extreme heat in June left many people scrambling to purchase portable air conditioners. But energy efficiency experts have two words for anyone who isn’t in a huge hurry: heat pump.
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The Compassion Seattle charter amendment that would change Seattle's approach to homelessness will not appear on the November ballot, after an appeals court rejected an emergency motion from the measure’s backers.
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The backers of a measure that would change Seattle's approach to homelessness are appealing a judge's decision that blocked it from the November ballot. The Compassion Seattle campaign initially said it would not appeal the decision from a King County judge.
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A King County Superior Court judge struck a Seattle measure on homelessness from the November ballot even as the city remains mired in a long-term humanitarian crisis.