Seattle Street Artist’s mural Tribute to Alex Pretti; veteran nurse killed by Border Patrol officers
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There is no additional vote or potential for a veto by the Executive.
The 0.1% sales tax bump will take effect countywide on January 1.
Sadly, Bob Ferguson is enabling this with his pro-austerity rhetoric, and potentially undermining the campaign to defend the millionaire's tax at the ballot box this fall
Have a question for King County Assessor Candidates Chris Roberts or Rob Foxcurran? Reply, and we'll try to squeeze it into the Q+A section at the forum we're livestreaming tonight. Starts at 6 PM.
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We're at final passage! And Teresa Mosqueda has props.
She is touting the investments that will get made in unincorporated urban areas like Skyway and White Center from this new revenue source.
Seattle Is Dying™
The 15% cap that would only taget Seattle has been REMOVED!
Voting no were: Dembowski, Perry, Fain, and Von Reichbauer.
Balducci points out that if cities want to purchase transit service with this money, they can just supplant planned road spending, freeing up their own dollars.
Fain argues that every city buying its own Metro service would move away from making transit decisions regionally.