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Colleen Echohawk and Rich Barton are among the housing advocates and real estate titans who shape the city, from covered patios to Climate Pledge arena.

Microsoft’s tribal land acknowledgement a great step but ‘more needs to be done,’ Native American mayoral candidate says July 15, 2021 at 4:37 pm Bigstock Photo At the outset of Microsoft’s Inspire partner conference this week, co-hosts Aliesha Pulliam, a communications manager, and broadcast journalist Elise Hu, offered two public disclosures that are becoming increasingly common in regional corporate and government gatherings: The first was a description of their appearances and ethnicity for members of the audience who are visually impaired. And the second was an acknowledgment tha...

More than a dozen people filed following Jenny Durkan's decision not to run for re-election. Credit: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren An entrance to Seattle City Hall is shown, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in downtown Seattle. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 8:16 AM PDT March 19, 2021 SEATTLE — With the position of mayor of Seattle being left vacant following Jenny Durkan's decision not to run for re-election, more than a dozen people have filed to campaign in the primary election. Elected mayors serve four-year terms and are responsible for ensuring the laws of the city are...

In December, Jenny Durkan announced that she would not seek a second term as mayor of Seattle. Weeks of speculation about potential replacements followed. But 2021 has brought more clarity. While none of our Very Serious candidates have yet entered the race, a bunch of others have. Here's who's running for mayor of Seattle this year (in alphabetical order). Henry Clay Dennison The Socialist Workers Party candidate for governor in 2020 has put his name in for Seattle's top post. Dennison is a rail worker and member of the SMART-TD union; he's also worked as a coal miner in Alabama and West ...

As a Democrat, some of her prominent platforms include promoting affordable housing opportunities, police reform and equitable reallocation of state funds. Speaking to The Seattle Times, Echohawk’s work with housing-vulnerable people in the expensive tech hub of Seattle informs her policy priorities.  “We have to build housing, we have to find truly affordable ways to get housing into our city,” she said. This comes in the form of reallocating tax revenue. Her work with the National Coalition to End Urban Indigenous Homelessness helped Washington’s King County reform its data collect...