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A rooftop patio outdoor space is shown at Mary's Place, a family homeless shelter located inside an Amazon corporate building on the tech giant's Seattle campus, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The shelter marks a major civic contribution bestowed by Amazon to the hometown it has rapidly transformed. But the facility also serves as a stark display of haves-and-have-nots, given that some blame Amazon's explosive growth over the past decade for making living in Seattle too costly for a growing number of people. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Amazon’s homeless shelter faces Seattle crisis, criticism

By SALLY HO - Associated Press

Sur La Table closing stores, seeking bankruptcy protection

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Mayor proposes $30M replacement fund for Seattle transit

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In this June 6, 2019, file photo Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos speaks at the Amazon re:MARS convention in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Seattle’s Kshama Sawant warns Jeff Bezos after passing Amazon tax: ‘We are coming for you’

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, center, marches with others, on Woodward during a rally in Highland Park, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in honor of George Floyd, a man who died last week while being arrested by Minneapolis police. (Clarence Tabb, Jr./Detroit News via AP)

Democrats face ‘credibility gap’ over protesters’ free pass on coronavirus rules

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A photo of Summer Taylor, who suffered critical injuries and died after being hit by a car while protesting over the weekend, sits among flowers at the King County Correctional Facility where a hearing was held for the suspect in their death Monday, July 6, 2020, in Seattle. Dawit Kelete is accused of driving a car on to a closed Seattle freeway and hitting two protesters, killing one, over the weekend. Seattle has been the site of prolonged unrest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis, and had shut down the interstate for 19 days in a row. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Driver who hit Seattle protesters charged with 3 felonies

By Martha Bellisle - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, a campaign poster for Seattle City Council incumbent candidate Kshama Sawant is posted outside her campaign headquarters in Seattle. The City Council on Monday, July 6, 2020, approved a new tax on big businesses two years after the council repealed a similar tax amid pressure from corporations such as Amazon. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Seattle City Council approves new tax on big business

By LISA BAUMANN - Associated Press

Two women were struck and critically injured where orange evidence markers are seen when a car sped through their small protest gathered on a closed Interstate 5 near the Yale Avenue on-ramp in Seattle, early Saturday July 4, 2020. Authorities say a 27-year-old man suspected of driving onto the closed freeway in Seattle early Saturday and barreling into a crowd of protesters has been arrested and booked on two counts of vehicular assault. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times via AP)

Summer Taylor, Seattle protester, killed after car plows into crowd

By Martha Bellisle - Associated Press

Seattle police officer Terry Whalen, a member of the department's hostage negotiating team, wears a patch reading &quot;Stop screaming, I'm scared too&quot; while standing with other officers blocking an intersection Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Whalen says that the patch, a gift to him, helps calm interactions with people who may be upset. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the &quot;occupied&quot; protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal shootings in less than two weeks. The &quot;Capitol Hill Occupied Protest&quot; zone was set up near downtown following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Horace Lorenzo, dad of teen killed in Seattle’s CHOP, receives call from President Trump

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Friday, June 26, 2020, Natasha Scott, right, provides flyer information about the Peacekeeper Society to Patricia Randall, center, and Floraine Gardee, left, during a drive-thru distribution of food and emergency supplies at Harrah City Hall in Harrah, Wash., during the coronavirus pandemic. (Amanda Ray/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP)

Surge in state COVID-19 cases driven by eastern Washington

By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS - Associated Press

Police and city workers fill a street occupied hours earlier by an encampment of protesters Wednesday, July 1, 2020, in Seattle, where streets had been blocked off in an area demonstrators had occupied for weeks. Seattle police showed up in force earlier in the day at the "occupied" protest zone, tore down demonstrators' tents and used bicycles to herd the protesters after the mayor ordered the area cleared following two fatal shootings in less than two weeks. The "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest" zone was set up near downtown following the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Father of Black teen killed in Seattle CHOP still hasn’t heard from city officials

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Seattle City Council panel votes to advance businesses tax

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Artwork stands on a wall Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, representing the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis, in an area where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with demonstrators Friday after some lay in the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city's effort to dismantle the protest zone that has drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and a lawsuit from nearby businesses. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Jenny Durkan, decrying socialist lawlessness, now reaps what she sows

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Seattle police enter the East Precinct in Seattle on Wednesday, July 1 2020 after clearing out the CHOP zone. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP)

Seattle police reclaim autonomous zone after wave of violence, two deaths

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Seattle Police, at right, look on as Department of Transportation workers remove barricades at the intersection of 10th Ave. and Pine St., Tuesday, June 30, 2020, at the CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) zone in Seattle. Protesters quickly moved couches, trash cans and other materials in to replace the cleared barricades. The area has been occupied by protesters since Seattle Police pulled back from their East Precinct building following violent clashes with demonstrators earlier in the month. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Seattle removes CHOP barriers with construction equipment

By Lisa Baumann - Associated Press

A protester holds a sign that reads "We don't negotiate with terrorists," Friday, June 26, 2020 inside the the CHOP (Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) zone in Seattle after workers and trucks from the Seattle Department of Transportation arrived with the intention of removing barricades that had been set up in the area which has been occupied by protesters since Seattle Police pulled back from their East Precinct building following violent clashes with demonstrators earlier in the month. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Joe Rogan mocks the idea of equating CHOP/CHAZ with progress: ‘They beat the f—- out of people’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, Seattle Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto speaks in Seattle. For a number of rebuilding teams, the 2020 baseball season was supposed to be another step in the progression of their top prospects eventually reaching the big leagues. By the time June rolled around, Dipoto expected former first-round pick Logan Gilbert to be pitching on the mound at T-Mobile Park. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Rebuilding MLB clubs hope to keep developing top prospects

By TIM BOOTH - Associated Press

A car sits in the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone following a shooting in Seattle early Monday, June 29, 2020. At least one man was killed and another was wounded early Monday morning when they were shot in the protest area known as CHOP, after driving the vehicle into the area. (AP Photo/Aron Ranen)

Seattle CHOP shooting kills 16-year-old boy

By Lisa Baumann - Associated Press

Two people walk past a memorial Sunday, June 28, 2020, in Seattle, for people of color believed to have died in police custody, where several streets are blocked off in what has been named the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest zone. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan met with demonstrators Friday after some lay in the street or sat on barricades to thwart the city's effort to dismantle the protest zone that has drawn scorn from President Donald Trump and a lawsuit from nearby businesses. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

‘Enough’: 1 killed in shooting in Seattle’s protest zone

By LISA BAUMANN - Associated Press

Seattle Storm coach Dan Hughes to sit out 2020 season

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