Brandon Thompson

5 days ago | kiro7.com | Brandon Thompson

Seattle entrepreneur Linda Low believes she has a way to help people disagree, but in a more helpful way. It’s a process that she began in graduate school, after moving to the United States from Canada during the 2016 Presidential election. In the near decade since, she’s helped thousands of people solve, or at least start the conversation about, the most pressing issues in their communities.

6 days ago | kiro7.com | Brandon Thompson

SUMNER, Wash. — Former Sumner High School basketball coach Jacob Jackson was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for sexually abusing players. It follows an emotional sentencing hearing where one of the players who suffered the abuse, and several parents of other victims, testified about the pain that they have endured in the years since it occurred.

1 week ago | kiro7.com | Brandon Thompson

SEATTLE — On Wednesday, a half-dozen businesses, the Port of Seattle, and the Port of Tacoma stood with Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell to support her Tariff Review bill — a measure that would reassert Congress’s role over taxation and trade policy in the wake of sweeping tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump. Businesses like KAVU, Tutta Bella, Fulcrum Coffee Roasters, Access Laser, Molly Moon’s Ice Cream, and Swaddle Designs spoke about the ways tariffs are impacting their bottom line.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Brandon Thompson

From increasing tracking of people convicted of sex crimes to improving maintenance of the State’s ferries, Democratic Governor Bob Ferguson signed 14 bills into law on Friday. Lawmakers behind House Bill 1457 say it will help bolster public safety and how the state handles incarcerated sexually violent predators. “This is one of the reforms that the bipartisan group came up with that makes sure that monitors to the fullest extent,” said Rep.

2 weeks ago | kiro7.com | Brandon Thompson

Thousands of Washingtonians hit the streets on a sunny Saturday demonstrating against President Donald Trump and his administration’s actions through the first three and a half months of his second term. The “Hands Off” Protest took place in Seattle, Olympia, Everett, Tacoma, Mt. Vernon, and Leavenworth, adding to hundreds of reported protests across the country.