KUOW Newsroom

Everything had to work perfectly.

Breaking up is hard — especially if you're a city trying to break up with a bank. Especially if the other banks aren't all that interested in dating you.

Around Seattle, you might think more workers are getting hurt given that construction is booming.

It started with street trees. Tukwila wanted to plant some along state Route 99 to slow down traffic and beautify the area. But the state said no. Trees, it turned out, were not safe, at least not as safe as lamp posts.

The head tax is happening — but the weakened version passed by the Seattle City Council today won't address the scale of the housing crisis, some council members say.

News stories can be disturbing sometimes, but KUOW has a way to help process these stories. We call it #NewsPoet — and it involves a Pacific Northwest poet writing an original piece inspired by one of our stories. Today we revisit the story about the last man to be put to death by Washington state.

Is Seattle the sort of place where, if you can’t afford it, there’s no room for you?

Tukwila, a small city of about 20,000 people, punches above its weight. That's partly because it's willing to throw elbows around, seizing property by any legal means necessary in order to turn an aging remnant of highway 99 into the dense, walkable neighborhood many officials want. The technique is effective, but it can leave bruises.

Kim Malcolm talks with news analyst Joni Balter about why the head tax proposed by the Seattle City Council puts Mayor Jenny Durkan in a politically tricky position. Balter is a contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and host of Civic Cocktail on the Seattle Channel.