Seattle taxes among nation’s kindest to the rich — and harshest to the poor VIEW
Seattleites seem to find it hard to turn down new taxes. One reason could be that the tax burden for Seattle residents is lower than...
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy
FYI Guy Gene Balk crunches the numbers. Gene has been a news librarian at The Seattle Times since 2002. He is a native of New Jersey, and earned a Master’s Degree in Library Science from Rutgers University. Before coming to The Times, he worked for the Orange County Register and the Baltimore Sun.
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Mayor Ed Murray’s tax would exempt diet drinks, and data show it could place a heavier burden on the people the tax is supposed to...
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Report: Seattle among 20 metro areas with most ‘unauthorized immigrants’
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Seattle police resorting to force less often, but racial disparities persist, report shows | FYI Guy
The Seattle Police Department’s latest use-of-force data, which include officer-involved shootings, show a continuing decline since 2011, when the Department of Justice found that Seattle...
More than 21,000 Washington residents are from countries named in Trump’s ban | FYI Guy
More than 21,000 Washington residents were born in one of the seven countries — Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen — affected by...
Washington poised to become one of 10 states where men outnumber women | FYI Guy
The U.S. Census estimates there may be slightly more men than women living in Washington for the first time in more than half a century...
Live in Seattle’s most liberal or conservative ’hood? Check our map. | FYI Guy
Even in the liberal strongholds of Seattle and King County, communities like Judkins Park in Seattle and Vashon Island stand out for lefty leanings, according...