Restaurants Are Banding Together to Solve the Delivery App Mess

A New Service Called Yaku Promises More Pricing Transparency and Fair Pay for Drivers

If you’ve had the misfortune of ordering delivery food in Seattle lately, you know how expensive it has gotten in the last couple of years—Seattle routinely ranks at or near the top whenever anyone ranks the most costly places in the US to get delivery. And if you’re unlucky enough to own a restaurant that…

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Seattle’s Proposed Fire Department Cuts Expose Stretched Emergency Response System

A Rough Look at What Corners of Seattle Would be Hard Hit by Mayor Katie Wilson’s $7 million Cuts to Firefighter Overtime

I didn’t understand Mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed budget cuts to the fire department until I found myself giving CPR to a dying man in Magnolia, the kind of peripheral neighborhood of Seattle that is most at risk from her call to cut firefighter hours. It was 5:32 p.m. on that September afternoon when I heard…

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King County Regional Homelessness Authority CEO Resigns

She’s Leaving After Damning Financial Audit Put the Agency’s Future in Question

King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) CEO Dr. Kelly Kinnison submitted her resignation today after only two years on the job. The announcement comes as the beleaguered agency is in the process of being partially dismantled. In a press release, the KCRHA governing board said Kinnison’s departure reflects the organization’s changes in “mission, purpose, and…

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The Best Bang for Your Buck Events in Seattle This Weekend: Nov 6–8, 2026

Short Run Comix Festival, Diwali: Lights of India, and More Cheap & Easy Events Under $20

Wondering what there is to do this weekend? Look no further, because we’ve rounded up the best budget-friendly options around town, from Short Run Comix Festival to Diwali: Lights of India and from Woodlandstock to a Holiday Baking Event at ChefShop. For more ideas, check out our top picks of the week. FRIDAY LIVE MUSIC…

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Black Women Saved Our Empire

White Americans Were Still Committed to Destroying It

Let’s think about this for a moment. There is a lot of talk on social media about how Black women voters basically saved America from the very worst of itself. They came out not only in strong numbers, but consistently voted against GOP candidates at the highest rates (between 80 and 90 percent). Now let’s…

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Slog AM: Washington Dems Poised to Gain Supermajority, Trans Ban Will Face Legal Challenge, People Were Smoking Chronic 2,800 Years Ago

Supermajority watch: Thursday’s ballot drop confirmed that Washington state Democrats are on the verge of unseating seven House Republicans. That would give them a supermajority in the House. Reps. Kevin Waters and David Stuebe of the 17th legislative district are among the down-and-out Republican incumbents. Waters conceded to and congratulated his opponent Democrat Ben Christly,…

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Say Cheese!

Your November Art Agenda

There is something about this piece of cheese—waterslide transfer print on processed prepared cheese product, to be exact—that’s really doing it for me. Made by Texas-raised, Portland-based artist Ash Stone, it’s on view tonight at RailSpur as part of an exhibition called I Am Love: Rituals in Resistance. The image has been transferred onto the…

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Councilmember Rob Saka Backs Katie Wilson’s RV Ban Veto

Dan Strauss Flounders in His Press Conference as the Mayor Lays Out Her Own RV Plan

At a press conference on Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson explained why she issued her first veto against the council’s recently passed RV ban and presented her own alternative executive order. But it was a surprise guest who stole the show: centrist City Councilmember Rob Saka. Saka’s presence signaled his reversal on the controversial RV…

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Ticket Alert: Liquid Stranger, The Chats, and More Seattle Events Going On Sale This Week

Plus, Noise Complaint and More Event Updates for November 5

Celebrate the (mostly) good election news with tickets to an upcoming show! Swedish DJ Liquid Stranger invites the EDM community to come together on “one shared frequency” on his Electric Helix tour. Australian punk-rockers The Chats have a North American tour planned in support of their forthcoming third album, Half Cut. Plus, don’t forget to…

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Slog AM: Washington Bans Trans Girls from Girls Sports, the “World’s Largest Jew-Hater” Is Investigating Antisemitism at UW, and More Nuclear Weapons Are Bound for Our Shores

The Ayatollah responds to the blue wave: “If there are still those who entertain the slightest hope that the hegemonic system may change behavior or shifts in its political parties may bring about change, or that by making concessions to the US, they can persuade it to abandon its hostility, they’re gravely mistaken,” he posted…

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Free Will Astrology

For the Week of November 4

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist Abraham Maslow coined the term “peak experiences”: surging upflows of heightened clarity, awe, vitality, and love. He also identified another category, “plateau experiences.” These are gentler but more enduring states, characterized less by ecstatic fireworks than by a leisurely delight in being alive. I believe you’re in a phase…

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