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Local host committees, private organizations established to stage the World Cup in their areas, find themselves squeezed between two much bigger forces. Soccer governing body FIFA — for whom the quadrennial tournament is a leading source of revenue — significantly constrains local organizers’ ability to raise their own funds. While Congress has approved $625 million in security funding nationwide, local governments still have to find the money to cover other expenses that could run up to $150 million per city.

~ The only real winner of the World Cup is FIFA

Meta fired 8,000 employees worldwide Wednesday as CEO Mark Zuckerberg executes the most aggressive workforce reduction in the company’s history, with scores of Puget Sound workers potentially caught in the fallout.

“They are causing a significant amount of damage to people’s vehicles, and it needs to stop,” Pierce County Deputy Carly Cappetto said. “If you think about it, 14 vehicles times, let’s say each window was $200, and that’s probably on the low scale, that’s a lot of money.”

Court documents revealed that the man charged in the death of Blessing, Christopher Leahy, was hanging around the neighborhood for days, and may have actually targeted other women before the attack.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has formally opened a federal investigation into Washington’s practice of housing biological men at the state’s only women’s prison, notifying Gov. Bob Ferguson in a letter dated Monday, May 18 that female inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) in Gig Harbor may be having their constitutional rights violated.

A high schooler cornered Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss with a question last week that Sound Transit still hasn’t answered well. Why is Sound Transit, an agency $34.5 billion in the hole on its voter-approved ST3 expansion, spending money to resurrect an old zombie-themed billboard campaign?

We Heart Seattle founder Andrea Suarez documented the encounter in a video posted to X on Wednesday, saying one of her volunteers who lives near the park walked off the main trails and stumbled across the tent. 

Speaking candidly about the direction of state government, Gregoire noted that when she left office, Washington’s budget stood at roughly $33 billion. Today, it has ballooned to nearly $80 billion.

Then came the line that cuts directly against the dominant narrative in Olympia: “I would suggest to you we don't really have an income problem, we have a spending problem.”

Baumgartner, who represents Washington’s 5th Congressional District, has pushed back against that agenda at each turn. The Cashless Bail Reporting Act could eventually force officials inside Washington state to answer publicly for releasing accused violent criminals without requiring them to post so much as a dollar.

Three men were shot early Monday morning outside the Cultura nightclub in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, according to the Seattle Police Department and the Seattle Fire Department.

At about 1:10 a.m., officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 900 block of East Pike Street. When officers arrived, they found three men suffering from gunshot wounds and began providing aid until Seattle Fire Department crews arrived.

~ No descriptions released.... you know what that means.

The cuts aim to “further sharpen focus, prioritize work, reduce complexity, and lower costs,” a spokesperson said by email. The company axed nearly 2,000 corporate roles last year, according to past reports.

It is a blockbuster clash between the two best teams from last season but the matchup nevertheless divided fans on social media.

'NFL said “we’re not easing into the season”… we’re starting with a rematch and maximum chaos,' one wrote. But others called it a 'massive miss' and a 'big mistake.'

Gregoire left office in 2013 with a $33 billion budget. Today it stands at $80 billion, part of a spending surge that has outpaced inflation for years. Washington Democrats have responded to the resulting gap by claiming a revenue problem at the end of every session.

Washington’s northern border has become an oft-used corridor for smuggling operations, with federal enforcement repeatedly flagging the region as a vulnerability. This case shows exactly how that vulnerability gets exploited.

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned professional social-networking platform, notified hundreds of employees this week that they were out of a job, adding more bad news onto a regional tech labor market that has been shedding positions for well over a year.

Starbucks announced Friday it is cutting 300 more corporate jobs and closing regional support offices across the country, the third round of layoffs since CEO Brian Niccol took the helm in 2024.

Seattle is facing a near half-billion dollar budget deficit over the next three years, according to new city projections that exceed former Mayor Bruce Harrell’s estimates by more than $100 million.

The growing shortfall comes as Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson signals her administration is preparing a mix of new taxes and spending cuts to close the gap.

~ OK taxpayers, time to bend over and enjoy the progressive punishment

Meta’s latest layoff news has already sent a shockwave among all and now workers at Amazon are worried about possible layoffs. As fresh reports of AWS restructuring started spreading online it kicked up a social media storm. Discussions on Reddit and employee forums have heightened fears of departmental restructuring and future job cuts within the company.

In a remarkably candid moment captured on Seattle Channel this week, Mayor Katie Wilson admitted what every local business owner already knows: it is simply less expensive to do business in Bellevue than in Seattle. The progressive mayor’s offhand concession, made during a budget discussion, should serve as a wake-up call for City Hall. Instead, Wilson doubled down, praising the very payroll tax that helped chase Amazon out of the city to Bellevue and floating a new local capital gains tax as a serious option.

~ Shame on the morons that voted this dummy into office

King County’s Prosecuting Attorney’s Office (KCPAO) quietly overhauled its malicious mischief prosecution standards last month, dramatically raising the bar for felony charges, stripping the offense from the county’s expedited crimes program, and requiring written professional estimates before prosecutors can charge property damage cases, with no public announcement attached.

~ When you see property crime is down in King County- now you know why. lol