News For Reasonable People

If their color and bold letters don't catch your eye, the phrases will. “Armed tenants.” “No trespassing.” “Lethal force authorized.” Those are just a few of the signs popping up at two Multnomah County area apartment complex. And they have people talking One is in Southeast Portland near Montavilla; the other is in Gresham. They are both owned by the same person. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new...

With Mediterranean-style seafood menu and breath-taking views of downtown Seattle, Westward restaurant sits on prime waterfront real estate in the Lake Union neighborhood. But assistant manager Rachel Fream says they are also dealing with a much less appetizing situation across the street: Several RVs that have parked in the area that provide as homes for people living inside. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE...

Seattle radio host Jason Rantz provided insight on a school district allegedly having segregated meetings on "Jesse Watters Primetime." Apparently that whole concept of separate but equal is not covered in critical race theory. So, this controversy right now is unfolding in the Issaquah School District. It's just outside of Seattle. The school board is replacing a retiring superinte...

The Maryland Office of Chief Medical Examiner is experiencing an unprecedented backlog of autopsies. The delays mean families are having to wait weeks to say goodbye to their loved ones who were murdered or overdosed. “The bodies are piling up and decaying right in front of everyone’s eyes,” said Patrick Moran, President of AFSCME Council 3, which has members who are autopsy assistants and forensi...

Nearly two years after COVID-19 shut down the city’s core, new data indicates that large numbers of visitors and workers still haven’t returned to downtown Portland. The number of downtown visitors is off by 40% compared to prepandemic times, and the number of people working downtown is two-thirds lower. That’s according to a new study issued Wednesday by the Portland Business Alliance, which drew...

A young Democratic member of Congress declared the "defund the police" movement “dead" on Thursday, and Black Democratic mayors from San Francisco to New York, Chicago to Washington, D.C., are moving to increase police budgets and end “the reign of criminals." As violent crime surges ahead of the November midterms, President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party are toughening the...

A spike in theft and vandalism has many Seattle business owners eating the losses instead of filing insurance claims because they fear their coverage will be dropped. A coalition of business groups turned to city councilmembers this week to help address these insurance concerns. The broken windows and break-ins are pushing the limits of their policies, they said, and could force them to close-up s...

Investigators believe hackers stole at least some Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal data of 650,000 current and former Washington state professionals and business owners during a breach of a state database. Department of Licensing officials confirmed the figures Friday. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store...

In the last three days, there have been four shootings in Seattle, all near the downtown districts of the city. On Friday, Seattle Police say a suspect shot an employee during a robbery at Key Bank in the SODO District. It happened around 1 p.m. on the 1900 block of 1st Avenue South.  LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. Re...

Brutal housing market. Will get even worse for future buyers. Good luck to all buyers in the area! We had it all wrong. It turns out once-sleepy Bellevue was sprinting there first. You’ve probably been rubbernecking, as I have, at these insane stories about bidding wars for Eastside real estate. This week a Seattle Times colleague noted one house in Bellevue got 14 bids and sold for $1 million mor...

McDonald's, which has more than 39,000 locations in about 100 countries, claim they will be able to deliver food in person and online. McDonald's and McCafe have filed trademarks to set up a virtual restaurant in the metaverse Other brand offshoots such as entertainment and events using the McDonald's and McCafe names have been trademarked and include 'online actual and virtual...

The leader of Amazon.com Inc.'s (Nasdaq: AMZN) retail business has left the Seattle area for Dallas, according to a report from Business Insider. Dave Clark, CEO of Amazon worldwide consumer, sold his 8,531-square-foot Medina estate last summer for $14.5 million, according to public records. Clark, who has been with Amazon for almost 23 years, bought the seven-bedroom home in 2018 for $7 mill...

Sotheby's has sold 200 pairs of sneakers designed by the late Virgil Abloh for a "record breaking" collective $25.3 million, the auction house said Wednesday -- more than eight times the initial $3 million estimate. The special edition Louis Vuitton and Nike "Air Force 1" sneakers were designed for the Louis Vuitton Spring-Summer 2022, Sotheby's said in a press releas...

A housing development in Yellow Springs, Ohio will not include affordable housing in it after Dave Chappelle and other residents voiced concern. Per the Dayton Daily News, the Yellow Springs council voted no on including an affordable housing component in the planned development. Oberer Homes, the company set to construct the development, made a plan with the village to include duplexes and other...

Seattle’s elected prosecutor on Monday promised quicker charging decisions to help tackle persistent low-level crime that’s plagued businesses downtown. City Attorney Ann Davison, a Republican who won election in November over progressive former public defender Nicole Thomas-Kennedy, said that her office will make charging decisions on all incoming cases within five business days. “The best way to...

Portland police officers could get between a 13% to 20% pay increase under a tentative four-year contract, including retention bonuses, wage bumps for completing required crisis intervention training and earning higher education degrees and cost-of-living adjustments. The contract doesn’t include a policy on body-worn cameras but contains a new guide governing police discipline and allows for the...

A town in Silicon Valley has declared itself a “mountain lion habitat” as a move to stop new affordable housing construction projects.   Woodside, California’s town council paused all housing projects started under the Senate Bill 9, a new state law that allows up to four housing units to be built in a single-family lot.   Council members decided to block the building of new housing units after a...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has enacted an emergency declaration to prohibit all camping along freeways and high-crash streets and intersections in the city of Portland.  The declaration will take effect at 3 p.m. Friday, according to Wheeler. It invokes a state of emergency that will remain in effect through Feb. 18. “We can no longer justify allowing our most vulnerable community members to be ex...

Homebuyers got crushed last year as home prices soared at their highest clip on record. Housing economists saw that price growth—which peaked at a year-over-year rate of 20% last year—as simply unsustainable. Their economic models agreed: Among the seven forecast models reviewed by Fortune heading into 2022, every single one predicted home price growth would slow significantly this year. LIKE &amp...

The City of Bellevue is filing a lawsuit against the owners of a home that slid off its foundations in a mid-January landslide. Increased security following break-in at site of Bellevue home slide Prior to its collapse, John and Barb Surdi lived in the three-story home for two decades. It’s believed that it was knocked off its foundations after a broken water main saturated the hillside below the...

Federal employees demanded Portland City Council address a homeless encampment outside their office that they say has created safety concerns, cost the agency hundreds of thousands in security measures and become "an existential threat" to businesses. Some commissioners in the virtual council meeting promised that unspecified "reforms" were in the works. But Commissioner Jo Ann...

Mortgage rates continued to surge higher last week, and that brought borrowers out of the woodwork, looking to refinance. While that might seem counterintuitive, given the higher rates, there are still a significant number of borrowers who could benefit from a refinance, and they may have been worried that this was their last chance. The average contract interest rate for 30-year fixed-rate mortga...

A comedian attended a virtual Portland City Council meeting on Wednesday and hilariously mocked the city's failed progressive policies during public comment. Clad in black while wearing a blue, surgical face mask, comedian Alex Stein thanked Portland City Council for enabling drug use and forcing police officers to stand down while Antifa militants destroyed the city. He spoke from his car, w...

Frustrated shop owners in Seattle say the cost of doing business downtown keeps climbing, and they point to concerns about safety as a major reason why. The Downtown Seattle Association says $564,000 was spent in the 2020/21 fiscal year, with most of that money from businesses going to private security firms. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️...

A ramp connected to the Interstate 5 express lanes in Seattle closed Tuesday following a "significant amount of wire theft." The entrance/exit ramp at 9th Avenue and Pike Street is closed until further notice, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https://bit.ly/3fs6dBU Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Sto...