Today, I am the executive director of the Statewide Reentry Council, where I work to improve public safety and outcomes for people returning to their communities from the criminal legal system. I...

A court-ordered debate about better ways to allocate money for schools, they argued, was the perfect moment to open up the whole sprawling organism and simultaneously fix an array of other problems...

Just over a century ago, North Dakota politics were swept by a progressive-radical-populist alliance of farmers, workers and small businesses calling themselves the Nonpartisan League. Farmers, in particular, were tired of being...

Numerous state superior, district and municipal court judges accept endorsements from elected sheriffs and local police guilds. County sheriffs, including King County’s sheriff, endorsed or donated to several Superior Court candidates as...

Just like COVID-19, gun violence disproportionately affects communities of color. In January, Adrian Diaz, Seattle’s interim police chief, noted that 60% of 2020 homicides were committed with a gun; that most homicide...

Both moratoriums were first proclaimed in mid-March 2020, and since then their renewal has been scattershot and last-minute. Most recently, on Dec. 15, Durkan extended Seattle’s moratorium through March 31. Inslee waited...

Thirty years ago, I was born in Sammamish, Washington — one of the richest cities in the country. Living alongside wealth, I learned it’s relative. Our one-story rambler with rust-colored carpets was...

But that hasn’t changed my mind about the hazard pay law, and I want to explain why. Let’s put aside the question of whether grocery workers need and deserve hazard pay, because...