Category: Seattle Times

One morning this spring, under Interstate 5 along Jackson Street, residents of a homeless camp emerged from tents and shelters built from broken branches to find state crews and a dump truck arriving on scene. The day before, workers had handed out green trash bags, telling the dwellers that cleaning the Seattle site could save… Continue reading Chaos, trash and tears: Inside Seattle’s flawed homeless sweeps

Larry Weis, Seattle City Light’s new general manager and CEO, did not inform city officials interviewing him for the job that he was the subject of an active workplace investigation in Texas concerning an allegation that he presided over a culture of harassment, retaliation and discrimination against women, The Seattle Times found. Seattle officials also… Continue reading Seattle’s top-paid employee under investigation when nominated