Seattle

'The Sky Didn't Fall': Study on Seattle $15 Minimum Wage Proves Critics Wrong

'Law Is on Our Side': Seattle Mayor Ready to Sue Trump for Answers on Immigration

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray is ready to sue President Donald Trump if he keeps refusing to answer Murray's questions about his immigration policies, Politico reported Tuesday. The mayor is slated to use his State of the City speech Tuesday morning to announce plans to ask the Trump administration to respond to questions about his executive orders, his...

#FreeDaniel: Community United in Outrage After ICE Detains 'Dreamer' With No Criminal Record

Nika Knight, staff writer

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested and detained a '...

Trump DOJ Loses Again as Federal Courts Advance Travel Ban Hearings

Nadia Prupis, staff writer

A federal judge in Seattle has rejected a request from the Trump administration...

Challenging Discrimination in Education, Seattle Teachers Hold District-Wide Black Lives Matter Rallies

How One Educator Transformed an Act of Police Brutality into a Force for Good

"These Kids Can't Wait": New Win in Youth Climate Lawsuit in Washington

No Jail Time for Delta 5 in Historic Case That 'Welcomes Jurors to Climate Movement'

Waging Climate Court Battle, Brave Youth Refuse 'To Watch Government Do Nothing'

Seattle Voters Approve First-in-the-Nation 'Democracy Vouchers'

From Pot to 'Democracy Vouchers,' Election Day 2015 Races to Watch

'Hard-Fought Victory' in Sight As End to Historic Seattle Teachers Strike on Horizon

Seattle Strike Enters Fifth Day as Teachers Protest Testing Policies, Racial Inequity and Low Wages

'Won't Back Down': Seattle Teacher Strike Continues for Third Day

'Fighting for Incredible List of Educational Reforms,' Seattle Teachers Go on Strike

As Shell Drilling Rig Aims for Arctic, Waves of Kayaks Block the Way

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Fat Cats Against A Living Wage, Except, Cautiously, In Seattle

Is there anything more enraging than the ugly spectacle of Senate millionaires and lobbyists - a broad coalition "from the rich to the very rich to the super-rich" - ganging up to defeat a minimum wage raise supported by the majority of the American people, aka the people they ostensibly represent? Seattle helped ease the pain a bit with a phased-in deal to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour over a few years, proving MLK was right again about that arc of the moral universe.