Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter With Seattle’s economy still strong, the downturn isn’t caused by layoffs & defaulting mortgages. The fabulous bubble has run out of steam on its own. Inventory of houses and condos for sale in King County – …
by DCG The Seattle Times reports: Nearly 100 percent of Seattle’s new tax on the distribution of sweetened beverages has been passed on to consumers through higher in-store prices, a new report estimates. But some taxed beverages have increased in price more than …
via city-journal.org: Seattle is under siege. Over the past five years, the Emerald City has seen an explosion of homelessness, crime, and addiction. In its 2017 point-in-time count of the homeless, King County social-services agency All Home found 11,643 people sleeping …
by DCG Another day, another story of a homeless person in Seattle receiving a free pass from the bureaucrats… Seattle has a homeless crisis that is exasperated by the fact that the bureaucrats do not enforce laws related to loitering, …
by DCG I read about a musician being beaten up by someone with a baseball bat last week in downtown Seattle by a homeless encampment. I wondered if the perp might have been a homeless person. I was right. Ever since …
by DCG Back in September, Christopher Rufo declared that he was going to run for Seattle City Council, District 6. He was going to challenge incumbent Mike O’Brien. Rufo started a CrowdPac page and had raised $12,760 of his $15,000 goal. I …
by DCG You cannot make this up. Seattle has had a homeless crisis for over three years. They allow the homeless to urinate and defecate in public. Homeless are allowed to shoot up drugs openly on city streets. Crime is rampant …
Do you think that housing prices in these major bubble cities like Seattle will continue to go higher in 2019? Or is this at or near the peak of housing right now? Home prices have fallen in countless cities around …
by DCG A homeless RV van that crashed into the West Seattle Health Club, causing $300,000 damage/West Seattle Health Club Facebook photo You gotta hand it to the progressive bureaucrats in Seattle. They have figured out a way to continually …
by DCG The signs are a “public nuisance.” From KIRO: Seattle business owners say they are plagued by issues with homeless people living in RVs parked by their businesses and the city is going after them for trying to do something about it. KIRO …
by DCG If you’ve read my many blog posts about the homeless crisis in Seattle, this will come as no surprise to you. From MyNorthwest.com: A police officer was stuck in the foot with a dirty needle while walking through a Seattle …
A pipeline explosion in British Columbia on Tuesday has cut off the flow of Canadian natural gas into Washington, raising the risk of power outages around the state. Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Avista Corp. and Cascade Natural Gas said Wednesday …
by DCG The progressive utopia of Seattle has some serious problems. The liberal bureaucrats in that city do not hold the homeless accountable for the crimes they commit. The Seattle Police and City Council have a contentious relationship which is …
by DCG It seems that nearly every week I do a post about the homeless in liberal-runSeattle. The crime committed by the homeless goes unchecked and citizens are scared, get attacked, and have their property burned down. Seattle City Council does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to stop these criminal …
by DCG A Seattle woman, Maria Ball, was out for an early run on Friday around Green Lake when she was attacked from behind. The man grabbed her chest and crotch. She yelled for help and neighbors called the police. According …
by DCG You tax dollars at work, Seattleites. Seattle bureaucrats continue to try and solve their homeless crisis keep the homeless industrial complex alive. In 2017 they opened the Licton Springs tiny home village which is a “low barrier” facility meaning residents can …
by DCG The city of Seattle/King County has a homeless crisis that bureaucrats perpetuate by coddling criminal activities committed by the homeless. Law-abiding citizens are terrorized by these actions: Feces and urine line Seattle streets along with drug needles all over …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Construction boom, flood of new high-end apartments, not enough demand, rising vacancy rates, and the biggest concessions since the Great Recession. The Seattle metro has enjoyed strong job growth in recent years and soaring housing costs. …
by DCG Lorena Gonzalez (r): Elected by “privileged voters” In November 2015, former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray declared a state of emergency over the homelessness situation. In November 2017 a report indicated that the city and county had funds of $195,588,532 to allocate to …
by DCG Seattle – like many west coast, progressive-run cities – has some serious problems (homelessness, needles left on the streets, open drug use, feces and urination on the streets, increased crime due to lack of enforcement, etc.). Just several …
by DCG The good judge (appointed by Bill Clinton) claims that Cody Wilson’s First Amendment rights are “currently abridged, but it has not been abrogated.” Wow, just wow. From Fox News: A judge in Seattle extended a ban on publishing instructions for 3-D printed guns during …
By Bob Shanahan “The minimum wage law very clearly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what …
by DCG You deserve this madness, Seattle. You elected these ineffective officials. From MyNorthwest.com: Many have asked where Seattle’s largest companies and the business community have been as the city faces multiple crises. Apparently, they’ve been talking with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. “Working …
by DCG Sponsor of the bill council member Teresa Mosqueda (center)/Twitter photo This sounds like a way to give illegal aliens more rights in the sanctuary city of Seattle. As a house cleaner notes in the article, she’s looking for support …
by DCG Homeless tents in Ballard Like many other proggresive-run cities on the west coast, Seattle has a serious homeless crisis. A neighborhood north of downtown Seattle, Ballard, is experiencing a growth in homeless as well as crime. This past Monday, a …
SEATTLE — While Seattle’s population is skyrocketing, the number of police officers has practically stayed the same as it was in the 1970s, according to the Seattle Police Guild. But now, a union leader says, there is a bigger problem. …
Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter A phenomenal onslaught of the wrong kind of supply. Crane-counters in the metropolitan area of Seattle have long had an exciting time as cranes keep popping up on new construction sites. Some are condo towers, others …
by DCG On Tuesday, Seattle-King County Public Health published a statement with their intent to decrease gun violence. The blog was posted by Dr. Jeff Duchin, Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County. About Dr. Duchin: “Jeff served for over …
The letter described what convention planners saw between their hotel and the Convention Center: “Two men urinating on the street. “One man who defecated on himself. “We witnessed three young addicts sitting outside of a major establishment smoking from a …
Authored Jared Dillian via MauldinEconomics.com, Seattle is being mismanaged. Readers from Seattle probably know what I am talking about. Conservatives (I suppose you could include me in that category) would say that Seattle’s city government will send them down the …