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City Council rejects safe drug injection sites at Monday night meeting
By Jack Mayne The Burien City Council voted 5 to 2 Monday night (Oct. 16) to ban King County health officials from locating a safe injection site in the city, […]
FOLLOWUP: District says unstable front of Highline High School must be rebuilt
It took the money from the voter approved recent bond election to give the Highline School District enough money to find out whether the front wall façade…]]>
Landlords can still reject vouchers, subsidies; human service dept. started
By Jack Mayne The Burien City Council rejected on a tie 3–3 tie vote a proposal by Councilmember Lauren Berkowitz to require landlords to not consider whether a prospective resident […]
Safe injection site stalled; Council approves plan to hire human services director
EDITOR’S NOTE: This post was revised on Aug. 23, 2017 at 10 a.m.: By Jack Mayne The Burien City Council dodged a quick decision on banning safe drug injection sites […]
Political activist files suit to force City Council to deal with ‘sanctuary ordinance’
By Jack Mayne Political activist Craig Keller has filed suit in King County Superior Court, demanding the Court order the Burien City Council to either put the city’s controversial sanctuary […]