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@komonews Same bank, other news: Columbia is moving its CEO and most executive roles to Arizona, saying new Washington taxes cost it about $8 million a year. The stadium deal works out to about $7 million a year.
https://t.co/NkWcXCpi2O

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@fox13seattle Seattle’s 911 calls for trash and open fires now run more than six times their 2015-2018 level, even as fires confirmed at tents and RVs fell by half.
https://t.co/R7a7MT66ZK

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Seattle's 911 calls for trash and open fires hit a record in 2026: 3,809 from January to October.
Fires the city confirmed at tents and RVs fell by half since 2022. The calls didn't.
https://t.co/sDZIQTnveF

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@Matt4_Liberty Washington’s own state meets show it too. The fastest girl in the 2022-2026 state mile finals would have finished 274th of 277 against the boys. https://t.co/WHB81qXFnx

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@WAApple23 @bennetthaselton @BrandiKruse @seattletimes Two right headlines don’t fix the record. What voters were repeatedly told:
• Genital exams required: False
• Sex can’t be verified: False
• Bans trans girls from sports: False
• Trans girls have no athletic edge: False

Still repeated despite corrections.

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@komonews Context for the vote: Seattle’s outreach team saw about 3 in 4 of its shelter offers turned down in 2025. But on a typical weekday this spring, only about 8 beds were held open for the team to offer.
https://t.co/Uz28ZLpdaw

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King County’s Health Through Housing reports that residents’ ER visits fell 39% and hospital stays 41%.

What it doesn’t report: their drug use or overdoses after move-in. Half had an addiction when they moved in.

https://t.co/fyT9gAFbYL

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Overdose deaths among people living in King County’s subsidized housing rose 68% from 2021 to 2025. The housing grew 25%.

The catch: the county hasn’t said whether it changed how it records where people lived.

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@Mynorthwest Spending, scores and rankings, checked: https://t.co/0Tkf0fiU1q

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@Mynorthwest Washington’s spending per student grew almost four times as fast as the nation’s in the 2010s, after inflation. Its education ranking still fell from 20th to 31st.

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@PNWConservative Spending, enrollment and inflation, checked: https://t.co/Yql5M42WAv

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@PNWConservative Per its own budget book, SPS has spent more than it took in five of the last six years, and reserves could go negative in 2027. A driver most people miss: special education spending more than tripled since 2014, to $272M, nearly a third of the growth.

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King County has 8,034 supportive housing beds. 15 are labeled sober.

Most funders’ rules don’t require residents to be sober or in treatment to get or keep a home. Leases still ban drug use on site.

https://t.co/lacxtGtUTR

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@The_Guy_in_237 @Oregonian 56.8% of Washington voters backed it. A high school girl who sat out a game vs. a transgender player told KOMO: “I don’t want any other girl to have to go through what I went through.” For most girls, it can be a signature from her doctor’s records. https://t.co/KBZe70Guah

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Seattle's supportive housing buildings get about 36 times the 911 overdose calls per apartment of other big rental buildings.
7 of the city's 10 street addresses with the most overdose calls since 2023 are supportive housing.
The city doesn't report this by building. We counted it from its own 911 data.
https://t.co/HWzSGdAZWn

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Seattle's 911 calls for trash and open fires hit a record in 2026: 3,809 from January to October.
Fires the city confirmed at tents and RVs fell by half since 2022. The calls didn't.
https://t.co/sDZIQTnveF

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@EqualityCaucus On the ballot itself, voters went the other way: girls' sports measures passed in all four states that had them, Washington, Colorado, Arizona and Nebraska. Washington's got 56.8% on the same ballot that gave Democrats two-thirds of the state House.

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@Matt_Calkins It's not a one-off. In its own voice, the Times said in Feb. 2025 that the testosterone-performance link had "murky scientific backing," and in Oct. 2025 that research on a trans advantage was "limited and inconclusive." https://t.co/b1nIxBjC1k

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@WSJ @WSJopinion @DeAngelisCorey What I-638 does, and each side's claims checked: https://t.co/ce4yBzeXIE

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@WSJ @WSJopinion @DeAngelisCorey Washington shows it: I-638 got 56.8% on the same ballot that gave Democrats 67 of 98 state House seats. The split was more urban than partisan. Seattle voted about 3 to 1 against it, while it lost only three of 39 counties.