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Cesar Chavez Park in Seattle will get a new name after sex abuse allegations

(The Center Square) – Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson said a small park in the city’s South Park neighborhood will no longer be called Cesar Chavez Park. Wilson in a blog post Wednesday said that she was taking the action in response to sexual abuse allegations recently reported about the late farmworker advocate. “Parks are community spaces, and everyone who visits should feel welcome there,” Wilson wrote. “When a name causes pain, we have a responsibility

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Op-Ed: Democrats must come to the table to fund Homeland Security

For more than a month, Senate Democrats have blocked funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to try and advance policies that make our country less safe. This has resulted in Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents, Coast Guardsmen, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) agents going without pay while critical counterterrorism and drug enforcement actions are halted. I joined my colleagues in the House of Representatives in

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High-value WA home listings increase by 65% after income tax passage

(The Center Square) – The number of high-priced homes listed for sale in Washington state that cost $2 million or more increased significantly the day after the state legislature passed an income tax on millionaires, according to data The Center Square obtained from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service. While the numbers of homes overall were small because of the high price, homes valued at $2 million or more increased by 65% compared to the same

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Seattle City Council member calls for surveillance cameras to be turned on before World Cup

(The Center Square) – The Chairman of the Seattle City Council’s Public Safety Committee broke ranks with the mayor Tuesday, urging that surveillance cameras be turned on before the FIFA World Cup Games are played this summer. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson announced on March 19 that 26 surveillance cameras by Lumen Field would be installed as planned, but wouldn’t be turned on unless there was a “credible threat” to public safety. She had concerns about

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