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Recently, I was at the Veterans Affairs hospital when my life and life choices were called into question. Veterans Affairs ...

Gentrification here is not an accident. It’s a deliberate system, designed and refined over decades. The playbook is old: use policy — zoning, tax breaks, BID initiatives and historic “preservation” — ...

Speaking of indignities, President Trump just recently discovered homelessness in Washington, D.C., while being driven to play golf at one of his golf courses there. I don’t know why it took him so ...

New data from the Seattle City Budget Office (CBO) shows the city spent nearly twice the amount of money it had budgeted for ...

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This year, for the first time in nearly 15 years since deconstruction began on two dams, the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe is the ...

As part of its coverage of the 2025 local elections, the Real Change newsroom has set up a live interactive dashboard with results from the Aug. 5 primaries. Scroll through the charts below to see ...

Following Real Change’s protocol for reporting on itself, no Real Change staff member outside the newsroom reviewed this story before it was published publicly. On August 4, Real Change, the ...

Click to view all images Skid Row resident General Jeff created the Skid Row City Limits Mural on San Julian Street. The mural was painted entirely by Skid Row residents in 2014. Photos by Zengzheng ...

Click to view larger Daniel Malone Seattle is a great city. As with any great place, however, we face challenges. One of the challenges that touches most of us in the city is the increasing ...