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Seattle lawmakers deny capital gains tax, broaden use of payroll tax revenue from big businesses

The Seattle City Council Thursday approved more than $8 billion for its latest budget, while rejecting a proposal to create… Read More

Seattle lawmakers axe funds for gunshot detection tech that was part of mayor’s public safety push

The Seattle City Council’s passage this week of a $7.4 billion city budget for 2023 will not include funds sought… Read More

Seattle approves new city budget that plugs shortfalls with surplus revenue from business tax

Seattle’s big business tax is bringing in more revenue than expected. Now the city is using the surplus to help… Read More

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NASA’s moon program shines as one bright spot in White House science spending plan

While most discretionary spending is getting the axe in the White House’s newly released budget request, NASA and its Artemis… Read More

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Sen. Maria Cantwell plays a role in drive to keep the space station going until 2030

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., has joined with three other U.S. senators in introducing a NASA authorization bill that aims to… Read More

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White House lists security tech, AI, energy and space among R&D priorities for 2021

Congress hasn’t yet approved a federal budget for the fiscal year that starts next month, but the White House is… Read More

High-flying Indian budget hotel startup Oyo hires ex-Uber GM to lead new Seattle office

Oyo, a six-year-old hotel startup that has already grown to dominate the budget hospitality scene in India and China, is… Read More

Space Launch System

White House budget proposal tightens the screws on science, from space to salmon

The White House’s $4.7 trillion spending plan for fiscal year 2020 aims to give a boost to the Space Force,… Read More

U.S. Capitol

From Earth’s depths to the stars, there’s good news for science in spending bill

The $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law today preserves several of the scientific initiatives his… Read More

New Seattle mayor vows to participate in regional response to Amazon’s HQ2 ‘jolt’

Today, Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess reiterated the city’s plans to respond to Amazon’s search for a second North American headquarters,… Read More

This Week in Seattle: Income tax faces legal challenge, new distracted driving law, and more

Seattle mayoral candidates debate, answer questions from tech industry The top six candidates for Seattle mayor took the stage Monday… Read More

This Week in Seattle: A booming city, an expectant giraffe, Trump’s travel ban, etc.

Seattle is the fastest-growing city in the country The Seattle Times ‘FYI Guy’ Gene Balk crunched the latest Census data… Read More

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President Trump’s budget plan gets a bad review from the science community

President Donald Trump sent his budget request for the next fiscal year to Congress today, giving the science community a glimpse… Read More

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Researchers sound the alarm over Trump’s budget, across the nation and in Seattle

Today’s White House outline for a “skinny budget” covering $1.15 trillion in discretionary spending aims a sharp blow at federally funded… Read More

Obama’s 2017 federal budget gets a visual makeover from Socrata

The federal budget has never been particularly pretty. At thousands of pages long with many complicated details and subsections, the… Read More

SLS launch

NASA packs a big vision for space exploration into smaller $19 billion budget

Christmas has come and gone, and so has a bump in NASA’s spending plan: The agency’s proposed $19 billion budget… Read More

Image: Europa orbiter

Congress’ omnibus bill gives NASA a Christmas bonus: a bigger $19.3 billion budget

The 2,009-page omnibus bill that’s been crafted by Congress for the current fiscal year boosts NASA’s budget to $19.3 billion, which is $756… Read More

Seattle Public Library’s free WiFi hotspot program receives city funding, 450 more devices

Earlier this year, Google and the Seattle Public Library teamed up to provide free mobile WiFi hotspots to anyone with… Read More

Ed Murray at Startupday 2015

Seattle mayor wants funding for police body cameras, chief privacy officer, bike-share program

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray wants to use city funds for a handful of technology-related projects. Murray unveiled his 2016 budget proposal today… Read More

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