After the first batch of ballots were tabulated on election night, left-leaning candidates were leading in every Seattle race ...

Recently, I was at the Veterans Affairs hospital when my life and life choices were called into question. Veterans Affairs ...

Gentrification here is not an accident. It’s a deliberate system, designed and refined over decades. The playbook is old: use policy — zoning, tax breaks, BID initiatives and historic “preservation” — ...

Speaking of indignities, President Trump just recently discovered homelessness in Washington, D.C., while being driven to play golf at one of his golf courses there. I don’t know why it took him so ...

New data from the Seattle City Budget Office (CBO) shows the city spent nearly twice the amount of money it had budgeted for ...

The Blue Angels airshow is definitely not fun for all — not for many in Seattle and King County who live with emotional ...

With so much going on in politics both nationally and locally, it can be hard to keep up. Here are some key things ...

As the popularity of matcha continues to grow inversely to market supply, other tea trends might catch on. Cafe owners and ...

As part of its coverage of the 2025 local elections, the Real Change newsroom has set up a live interactive dashboard with ...

Dr. Wes is the Real Change Circulation Specialist, but, in addition to his skills with a spreadsheet, he writes this weekly column about whatever recent going-ons caught his attention. Dr. Wes has ...

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On August 4, Real Change, the low-barrier jobs program and Seattle street newspaper, learned of two vendors who were detained by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and are currently ...