Week in Review: Affordable housing, a response to bullying, and missing texts

Bill Radke discusses the week's news with The Stranger's Hannah Krieg, Crosscut's Mai Hoang, and Geekwire's Mike Lewis.

Seattle City Council budget chair Teresa Mosqueda said yesterday that she would propose using JumpStart payroll tax revenues to supplement the city’s general-fund budget for the fourth and fifth years in a row, after the City Budget Office released new projections of a growing budget shortfall through the next five years. Weren’t JumpStart revenues were supposed to pay for affordable housing?

Members of the stakeholder group that was tasked to make reforms to the design review process don't feel like they are being listened to by the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections, which is convening the group. How much more affordable housing would we have without design review?

On Monday night, the Port Townsend City Council and Mayor David Faber delivered a message loud and clear: transphobia is not welcome in Port Townsend after a nasty instance of transphobic bullying at the Port Townsend YMCA. What effect does this proclamation have?

An early forecast of this year’s statewide apple harvest predicts a smaller crop than 2021, largely due to a colder-than-normal spring. How have spring and summer weather affected our biggest crops?

Is WA supplying wheat that Ukraine farmers cannot? The Kennewick City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night in favor of starting its meetings with a prayer, after disagreeing on whether that would divide or unite people. What kind of official prayer is legal?

Dan Price was applauded for paying a minimum salary of $70,000 at his Seattle company and criticizing corporate greed. The adulation helped to hide and enable an alleged pattern of abusive behavior, according to a report by The New York Times. What happened?

The King County Sheriff's Office is investigating whether former Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, former Seattle police chief Carmen Best, or others broke the law when thousands of potentially key text messages exchanged during the city's 2020 racial justice protests were deleted from their city-issued phones.