Sound Transit will keep collecting its car-tab taxes, despite I-976 vote
Sound Transit will continue to collect car-tab taxes but avoid suing for now to overturn Tim Eyman’s tax-cutting Initiative 976, approved by voters statewide this month. That strategy emerged from a transit-board meeting Thursday in which Eyman said he will run for governor against Democratic incumbent Jay Inslee, only to have the microphone cut off by transit-board Chairman John Marchione, who cited a board rule against campaign speeches in public-comment sessions. Continue reading in The Seattle Times. (Ken Lambert/The Seattle Times)
King County puts 100K toward programs to bus homeless people out of the county
King County councilmembers this week approved allotting $100,000 toward programs that would bus homeless people out of the area for family reunification. The funding, part of King County’s supplemental budget, is far more than the $37,000 the county currently spends on family reunification across five programs. But, it represents just a fraction of the $1 million Councilmember Reagan Dunn recently proposed putting toward a “Homeward Bound” program. Continue reading at Seattlepi.com. (Jeffrey MacMillan/For Washington Post)
ICE intervenes in legal battle over Cowlitz County juvenile records
A lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department told a judge Thursday that Cowlitz County should not be allowed to release records of immigrant minors held at the Cowlitz County Juvenile Center because the documents are owned by the federal government. Continue reading in The Daily News.
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