New data from the Seattle City Budget Office (CBO) shows the city spent nearly twice the amount of money it had budgeted for ...

Recently, I was at the Veterans Affairs hospital when my life and life choices were called into question. Veterans Affairs ...

Gentrification here is not an accident. It’s a deliberate system, designed and refined over decades. The playbook is old: use policy — zoning, tax breaks, BID initiatives and historic “preservation” — ...

Speaking of indignities, President Trump just recently discovered homelessness in Washington, D.C., while being driven to play golf at one of his golf courses there. I don’t know why it took him so ...

Dr. Wes is the Real Change Circulation Specialist, but, in addition to his skills with a spreadsheet, he writes this weekly column about whatever recent going-ons caught his attention. Dr. Wes has ...

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