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The Seattle City Council has voted to make the city a sanctuary for abortion providers and patients, meaning Seattle police will not cooperate in arrests or investigations related to abortion bans in other states.
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This fall, people in Seattle will get to decide whether or not they want a new way of voting for local candidates. Here's the difference between approval voting and ranked choice voting, and how these options may appear on the November ballot.
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The Seattle City Council will vote Tuesday on the first in a series of policies that would ask app-based companies like food delivery services to improve wages, transparency and other working conditions for gig workers.
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The Seattle City Council has approved an ordinance freeing up more than $1 million to be used to recruit police officers to the Seattle Police department which has lost hundreds of staffers in the last two years.
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Debora Juarez, who was first elected to the Seattle City Council in 2015, will serve as council president for the next two years.
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COVID-19Jenny Durkan, the outgoing mayor of Seattle, says she will veto City Council legislation that would have repealed the $4 an hour hazard pay boost for grocery workers that has been in place for nearly a year.
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Kshama Sawant appears to have survived a recall vote by a narrow margin after facing criticism for pushing cuts to the police budget and higher taxes on hometown tech giant Amazon.
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The vote in a recall effort against a socialist Seattle City Councilmember tightened considerably Wednesday as more mail ballots were counted, meaning it would be at least another day until it was clear whether the controversial lawmaker would be ousted.
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Preliminary results show voters in Seattle narrowly in favor of recalling socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant. She's the firebrand who pushed the city to adopt a $15 minimum wage, raged against hometown tech giant Amazon for its business practices and angered many with her aggressive political tactics.
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A recall vote that ends Tuesday asks whether Kshama Sawant should be removed from the Seattle City Council for a campaign finance violation, her involvement in a protest march to the home of Mayor Jenny Durkan, and her decision to let a crowd of protesters into City Hall during the pandemic. Sawant says the charges are a pretext for commercial real-estate and big business interests to try to remove her from office.