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Seattle's short-lived head tax was brought into the world by the city council - and last Tuesday, they proved that they could take it out too. The dramatic repeal comes after less than a month of the tax being in effect. Now Mountain View, California - home to Alphabet - is considering a similar measure. If passed, the levy would raise 50% of its revenue from Google and its subsidiaries.

The fall of the house of head tax in Seattle might cast a shadow all the way to California. Mountain View is considering a head tax on its own tech behemoth, Google/the Alphabet Company. MarketWatch’s Jeremy Owens explains the fight.

Did you know that Seattle has the second most places of worship per capita in the nation? Meanwhile, we are also the second most religiously unaffiliated city in America. So basically, Seattle has a lot of empty churches. And after June 24th, there will be one more empty church. That will be the last day of service for the Capitol Hill Presbyterian church. Bill Radke speaks with Seattle Pacific University Professor Jeff Kuess, Reverend Eliana Maxim with the Seattle Presbytery, and Pastor Tyler

Bill Radke talks to two businesses that opposed the head tax about what solutions they're hoping to see, now that the head tax has been repealed. What do Seattle businesses need to do now? What's their responsibility?

Yesterday, the city council voted 7-2 to repeal its freshly passed head tax. Glenn Kellman of Redfin and Saul Spady of Cre8ive Empowerment opposed the tax. We ask, what’s their plan now that the levy’s dried up? Seattle’s church-per-capita ratio is pretty high for a famously secular city. Reverend Eliana Maxim of Seattle Presbytery, Jeff Keuss, professor of Christian Ministry, Theology and Culture at Seattle Pacific University, and Pastor Tyler Gorsline of A Seattle Church share how religious

Bill Radke talks to Roger Bennett, co-host of the NBC Sports show "Men In Blazers" about the rise of soccer's popularity in the U.S. and the 2018 World Cup without the U.S. Men's National team.

Yesterday, the city council voted 7-2 to repeal its freshly passed head tax. Glenn Kellman of Redfin and Saul Spady of Cre8ive Empowerment opposed the...

Here we are in balmy Juneuary, still clad in waterproof - and arguably unstylish - garb. With our weather, and the tendency to dress like a "hiking emergency" could break out at any moment, as one listener put it: is Seattle a fashionable city? Welllll... it depends on how you define fashionable, said our panel. But Seattle does have something special that's all its own.

When Seattle writer Angela Garbes first became a mom, she wrote a piece on breastfeeding that went viral. It remains the most-read article The Stranger has ever published. The hunger for knowledge behind that response was part of what fueled Garbes to write the new book "Like a Mother." She joined Bill Radke in the studio to discuss it, along with her mom Josie Garbes and three-month-old daughter Ligaya.

It might be time to raise the parting glass to Seattle's head tax, which passed last month in a contentious (yet unanimous) city council vote. Amid a mounting, well-funded repeal campaign, the council is meeting to consider repealing the tax itself. Why the about face? And how will the city fund homeless services now?