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San Francisco officials have announced plans to deter robbers moving forward following the mass looting that ransacked Louis Vuitton Friday night. In the midst of busy holiday shopping, a group of roughly a dozen people flooded Union Square at around 8:10 p.m., smashing windows and grabbing armfuls of luxury clothing. Moving forward, city officials plan to impede vehicle access to Union Square. &q...

Arron Renfrew owns a charming two-story house in Ballard that he wants to rent out but it also comes with an ongoing issue involving Charles Woodward, known to residents in the Seattle neighborhood as Lawnmower Man. Woodward, who is homeless, has lined up over two dozen lawnmowers on the street, three cars and has other equipment on the intersection at 8th Avenue NW and 49th Street that has upset...

Home prices all over the country have seen stratospheric increases within the past year, as demand for homes spiked and inventory tanked. But higher prices are expected to push the limits of conforming loans to what experts anticipate may be record increases in 2022, with the maximum loan limit at nearly $1 million for high-cost areas. The expected increases were reported by the Wall Street Journa...

Democratic leaders in Minnesota’s capital city are scrambling for solutions after developers put several large projects on hold across St. Paul in the wake of last week’s election, when residents approved what may be the strictest rent-control policy in the country. The rent-control ballot initiative in St. Paul was overshadowed nationally by an effort in neighboring Minneapolis to disband that ci...

The third quarter was investors' most prolific one on record, accounting for a full 18.2% of homes that sold across the U.S. https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2021/11/17/investors-record-home-purchases-national.html Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: https://ReasonableTV.co...

A Seattle-area Republican pushing a new "Refund Police" initiative says suburban taxpayers have unfortunately been bearing the brunt of the far-left inner city's failed policies, as his $14.4 million push for the sheriff's office aims to offset measures tying police's hands when it comes to public safety. King County Council Vice Chairman Reagan Dunn introduced the measure...

Some residents who live in the northwest part of Seattle's Ballard neighborhood have been engaged in a tense standoff recently with Charles Woodward, also known as Lawnmower Man, in a dispute that neighbors are threatening to take to court. The two sides are at odds because Woodward has lined up nearly two dozen lawnmowers at the corner of 8th Avenue NW and 49th Street, impeding access on the...

Challenges to President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers will be consolidated in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel dominated by judges appointed by Republicans. The Cincinnati-based court was selected Tuesday in a random drawing using ping-pong balls, a process employed when challenges to certain federal agency actions are filed in multiple courts. The select...

A riot was declared as a group of about 200 protesters in downtown Portland began breaking windows, throwing objects at police and talked about burning down the Justice Center Friday night. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared the riot when the gate to the Justice Center detention area was damaged, although Portland police initially tweeted there was a riot. The sheriff’s office used PPB...

The city of Seattle and King County have reached a land swap agreement to transfer ownership of City Hall Park to the county in exchange for 13 properties. On Friday, King County Executive Dow Constantine’s office announced the agreement with Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan in a release. The swap will give King County the half-acre park, allowing it to “complete its downtown Civic Campus,” in exchange...

New York City won't surrender to criminality like Portland and Seattle, ex-NYPD Police Commissioner Howard Safir told Fox News. The city's former top cop was responding to Black Lives Matter co-founder Hawk Newsome's predictions of "bloodshed" if incoming Mayor Eric Adams reinstates an undercover police unit to target gun violence.    "What Newsome said about there be...

The Biden administration has said it will rely on whistleblowers to help enforce its COVID-19 vaccine mandate by ratting out businesses that fail to comply — because the federal government doesn’t have enough safety inspectors to do it. ​ The ​administration is betting that informants will be so outraged by their employer violating the mandate or not requiring weekly COVID-19 tests for their co-wo...

A federal appeals court has called President Joe Biden’s vaccine and testing requirements for private businesses “fatally flawed” and “staggeringly overbroad,” arguing that the requirements likely exceed the authority of the federal government and raise “serious constitutional concerns.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in an opinion issued Friday evening, reaffirmed its decision t...

Downtown Seattle and Pioneer Square have become so dangerous that the King County government will now have security escort employees to the bus, train, or ferry for their commute home. The county’s Walking Bus pilot program was announced internally to employees on Wednesday at the downtown campus, located at the King County Courthouse. Two security escorts will walk employees from the courthouse t...

It has become a familiar sight at many homeless encampments in the city: An orange glow from a fireball erupting among the tents. On Wednesday evening, it occurred under the West Seattle Bridge and at an encampment located across the street from Chelan Café, where Jillian Meador is a regular customer. “And it seems to be spreading in Seattle," she said. "That hits way too close to home.&...

John Peterson, a third-generation turkey farmer, has had customers come to his Ferndale Market in Minnesota lately asking whether they’re going to run out of turkeys heading into Thanksgiving. Everything feels scarce right now, and people assume turkeys will be, too, even though from where Peterson’s sitting, that’s not really the case. “We don’t have any reason that we should run out of turkeys,”...

During the Covid pandemic, home prices have shot up nearly nationwide while household income fell. As a result, homeownership became out of reach for many would-be buyers. However, affordability was a growing problem well before 2020 and the start of the pandemic. In the last decade, the median home price rose roughly 30% and incomes crept up just 11% over the same time period, according to a Bank...

Homeowners are taking advantage of a global housing boom by pulling equity out of their homes at the highest volume since the financial crisis.  In the U.S., homeowners withdrew $63 billion in equity from their properties through more than 1.1 million cash-out refinances in the second quarter of the year — the largest quarterly volume since mid-2007, according to data company Black Knight. Just un...

Online shopping can be dangerous, as the US property website Zillow has belatedly come to realize. While many of us wasted countless hours during the pandemic clicking through real estate listings on Zillow and daydreaming about the sort of pad we’d buy if we had deep pockets, the company was running a side-business, separate from its property searching website, in which it deployed algorithms to...

An RV that had been parked in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood that prompted concern from residents and businesses is back. Bigger and taller than ever. “This has just gotten worse and worse and worse," said Carolyn Boyle, owner of a food delivery company called New Roots Organics. "There’s no enforcement." A makeshift upper deck is being constructed again on the vehicle parked a...

Retailers and logistics experts have warned that supply-chain problems will make certain items more expensive or difficult to obtain this holiday season. They're urging people to start shopping early, well before Black Friday, if they want to ensure they have presents — and a tree to put them under.  "Supply-chain disruptions have really been impacting the retail industry since the start...

The Portland Police Bureau currently deploys fewer sworn officers — 789 — than at any point in the past in 30 years, according to the bureau and an analysis of records by The Oregonian/OregonLive, even though the city added more than 165,000 new residents over that period. Why? One big reason is the city’s growing struggle to hire new cops and retain the ones it has. Ten years ago, Oregon’s larges...

In a local election that drew some national attention, with former presidential candidate Bernie Sanders making endorsements, self-described progressive candidates faced off with more conservative business interests in a series of elections for local offices throughout the city of Seattle and Martin Luther King County. All ballots had been dropped off or mailed as of Nov 3rd but the elections will...

Tired of writing to city leaders and getting no response, a crew of Northwest Seattle neighbors decided last year to start taking action. Armed with little more than barbecue tongs, kitchen-style pinchers, and trash bags, the grassroots “We Heart Seattle” volunteer team has since cleaned up more than 320,000 pounds of curbside garbage from around homeless camps. For that — and for helping 68 indig...

Despite widespread criticism of their police department and its conduct, voters in Minneapolis have decided they do not want a new model of public safety implemented in their city. During Tuesday’s city elections, voters’ ballots included a question asking them if they want to replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a new department of public safety, which would take a “public health...