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Hundreds of people have attended a 'Freedom Rally' in a small town in Washington on Saturday after its mayor refused to enforce the state's COVID restrictions on businesses, citing 'the Constitutional rights of small town America'.  Large crowds joined the Patriot Prayer-organized rally in Mossyrock, a rural community in Lewis County between Seattle and Portland, with mask...

Google is delaying employees’ return to offices to September 1, and will expect employees to report to work in-person for at least three days a week thereafter, according to an email from CEO Sundar Pichai. “When we closed most of our offices back in March, we didn’t know what course the pandemic would take,” Pichai said in the email to employees Sunday night. “We’ve adapted. We’ve kept innovating...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan sought to build a bridge between the tech industry and its harshest critics in the divided city during her first term. In a one-week tech blitz last year, Durkan paid visits to Amazon, Expedia, and Apple’s downtown campuses to celebrate the rapid growth of the tech sector. She also invited top tech companies to build municipal products and advise the city. But Durkan, wh...

With protesters’ occupation of the North Portland neighborhood around the so-called “Red House on Mississippi” rounding its fourth day, it remains unclear if there is a peaceful path to resolving a conflict that started two years ago, when a mixed-race family’s long-time home was foreclosed on by their lender, leading law enforcement to try to remove them on Tuesday. The Kinney family and their su...

If the outbound migration from Silicon Valley to Texas continues at its current clip, we may soon see a sign on southbound Highway 101 “Will the Last One in Silicon Valley, Please Turn Out the Lights?” Just 11 days after Hewlett Packard Enterprise, part of the firm that created Silicon Valley in 1939, announced it was moving its headquarters from San Jose, California to Houston, Texas, Oracle anno...

Insurers’ apparent reluctance to cover Portland businesses is another indication of how severely this year’s turbulence has affected the city and its image. And it represents another hurdle for small business owners, who are trying to overcome the pandemic’s profound effect on shopping and work habits and the physical damage from sporadic attacks on storefronts. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner...

Local Seattle media outlets are raising concerns over the city's $3 million contract with King County Equity Now, a pro-defund the police group linked to this summer's Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). Independent news blog Seattle City Council Insight is pressing Councilmember Tammy Morales for details since her office is overseeing the contract, which uses a loophole to avoid a rul...

Since the death of George Floyd in police custody in May of this year, the Seattle Police Department has been attacked from Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the City Council and the Mayor.  As a result of pressure from outside groups, the City Council vowed to significantly reduce funding to the agency.  This, among other things, have caused an increase in the number of officers that are fleeing the ag...

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved a budget early Thursday that will shift about $8 million from the police department toward violence prevention and other programs—but will keep the mayor’s targeted staffing levels for sworn officers intact, averting a possible veto. Mayor Jacob Frey, who had threatened to veto the entire budget if the council went ahead with its plan to cap police...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has asked the City Council to pay her legal fees of approximately $240,000 following a failed recall effort against her earlier this year, according to reports. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMI...

The city of Seattle is being sued by the Chamber of Commerce over a recently passed Jumpstart or Amazon tax.   Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to our entire content library: http...

An appellate judge has ruled that the Washington state Department of Labor and Industries did not show sufficient evidence to fine a gym owner for alleged violations of coronavirus regulations in Yakima. One of Anytime Fitness' owners, Bradshaw Development Inc. was fined more than $9,000 in July and $29,000 in August after the department said the gym exposed its employees to COVID-19, The Yak...

Elon Musk has announced he is leaving Silicon Valley for Texas, and predicts the tech hotspot could lose its influence. The billionaire entrepreneur declared that California had "too much influence in the world" but that its power is waning. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support...

Portland ‘Red House’ occupation continues as a resolution may be in the works as occupiers at the Red House in North Portland said they are negotiating with the city and said there are offers to buy the house outright as part of the solution. And a GoFundMe set up to help the Kinney family has now generated more than $300,000 in donations. Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties N...

Take an in-depth look a the red hot Seattle Real Estate Market based on the Northwest Multiple Listing Association End of month statistics.   Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasonable+ for uncensored access to o...

Tech giant, which traces its roots to the origins of Silicon Valley, is latest company to move away from area long considered hub of innovation But despite that, Hewlett Packard Enterprises, one of two companies created from the split of HP, is moving its headquarters to Houston. The multi-billion dollar tech giant, however, will keep offices in San Jose. It is the latest company to exit Silicon V...

Seattle’s Denny Park overrun with drugs and homeless encampments. A crime-ridden, garbage-strewn, rat-afflicted encampment which is avoided by all but the addicts and criminals who’ve taken it over. Oceans of trash fill the tent camps. In 2017, the city of Seattle cleaned up The Jungle, a tent camp near I-5 highway downtown, and removed 3,000 tons—not pounds: tons—of trash. In the first quarter of...

Small business sports bar owner interview covering the Covid shutdown struggles due to Governor Jay Inslee restrictions.  Dan Flitsch is the owner of the Savage Moose Sports Pub in Kenmore and also the Off The Rails Sports Pub in Bellevue, WA. Dan gives an honest description of what it's like to be an owner of a small business that is shut down but still has to scramble to cover overhead, pay...

A new, privately funded analysis of dispatch data from the Seattle Police Department shows that the city’s most diverse neighborhoods have the most number of high priority 911 calls, providing new support for the argument that cutting police staffing will hurt the communities that call it the most but that have also been the most critical of the agency. The report was created by Scott Lindsay, the...

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will not seek re-election, prompting what will likely be significant political posturing for the position and a 2021 city campaign season like no other. As of November of 2019, Durkan was dropping hints about running for a second term. In February of 2020, she filed paperwork with the city and state for a re-election campaign. But the novel coronavirus pandemic altered t...

In the past 60 days, 15 percent of those who tested positive reported visiting a food-service establishment or restaurant before illness onset Just before Thanksgiving, Public Health — Seattle & King County released a new report on COVID outbreaks and transmission. According to the latest data, community spread over the past two months has been highest within households, at workplaces, and fro...

Tech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is ‘not the city it was’ Hindawi also realized that the “mythology around Silicon Valley” no longer resonated with him. He cited the expense of operating there, and “some asymmetries in the way that the Bay Area works that just didn’t really work well for us.” He added: “San Francisco is not the city it was 20 years ago.” “Th...

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant's appeal to dismiss the recall effort against her will head to the Washington State Supreme Court in January 2021 where it is expected to be decided without oral arguments. Back in September, King County Superior Judge Jim Rogers allowed four of the six charges alleged in the petition to go forward, saying in his order that the petitioner had proved &q...

Washington State is going after businesses that are defying the current lockdown restrictions.  Businesses are being fined and threatened with criminal charges for staying open.    Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with...

A Seattle caseworker was murdered by her client as the City Council voted on defunding the police and considerations of police being replaced by social workers continues.   Join your host Sean Reynolds, owner of Summit Properties NW and Reynolds & Kline Appraisal as he takes a look at this developing topic. Support the show 🛍️ Merch - https://Store. ReasonableTV.com/ 🌟 Go PREMIUM with Reasona...