PrairiePundit

 PJ Media: ... "Previously, if an employee earned at least $2.72 per hour in medical benefits or tips," Fox 13 Seattle reported, "a business could pay its workers $17.25 per hour." As of New Year's Day, all the exceptions and exemptions are gone. Seattle's new no-excuses minimum wage is now a payroll-busting $20.76 an hour. Bebop Waffle Shop threw a big party on Dec. 31 and permanently locked its doors on Jan. 1. My shocked face was last seen sipping a brandy by the fire and reading a dog-eared copy of Milton Friedman's "Why Government Is the Problem." That's my amusingly wordy way of saying that I totally believe it happened. The local diner's finances were already suffering due to inflation and lower downtown foot traffic. It was against this economic backdrop that the city chose to impose a 20% pay hike on restaurant workers because politicians put moral preening and virtue signaling ahead of any other considerations. Then there...

 Breitbart: Poll: A Third of Seattle Residents Are Considering Leaving, Citing Crime and Costs It is not the only poorly run Democrat controlled city, but it may have a higher percentage of fed up citizens. 

 National Review: Former Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan’s administration drafted legislation in June 2020 that would have transferred the police department’s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter organization, the Seattle Times reported on Sunday. The legislation was drafted by the Department of Finance and Administrative Services around the same time that protesters calling to defund the police converged on the East Precinct in the wake of riots over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. On June 8, 2020, FAS director Calvin Goings emailed three memos and a draft resolution to transfer the East Precinct building to the non-profit Black Lives Matter Seattle–King County. That same day, Seattle police officers boarded up the windows of the East Precinct building and evacuated the premises. Following the evacuation, activists set up an “autonomous zone” in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, which was cleared by police on July 1 following a series of shootings in the area. ...

Communities Digital News: With the Left in charge, Seattle and Los Angeles are dying. Chaos on camera (videos) The video of Seattle is striking showing not only the homeless mess but the frustration of citizens having to deal with it and with their incompetent government. The one of Los Angeles is equally disturbing.  About the only thing that is clear is that the liberals who are elected officials in those cities are totally incapable of dealing with the problem.  It raises the question about why the voters keep electing them.