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Revealed: Everett police union president James Collier's racist, conspiracy-laden tweets
The sergeant promoted election misinformation, pandemic conspiracies, and defended violence against Black Lives Matter protestors.
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Ben Karpelman
Everett police union president James Collier lied to the City about his offensive Twitter posts
He claimed it was his son, Tanner, who posted the content. Tweets from the now-deleted account refute the claim that was accepted by the Franklin…
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Ben Karpelman

December 2020

October 2020

Let the Housing Revisionism Begin
Following Housing Hope's latest defeat, Mayor Cassie Franklin is already trying to cover for her role in the Council's endorsement of an anti-housing…
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Ben Karpelman
Mayor Franklin to Boeing Workers: Learn to Code
As Mayor Franklin prepares for Boeing layoffs, she is proposing an “IT boot camp” and collaborating with “innovation centers”.
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Ben Karpelman
Police Training Really More About Saving Their Jobs
Articles describing the “bystander training” EPD will be taking talk more about how cops can save their jobs than the moral and material ramifications…
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Ben Karpelman

September 2020

Everett Police Gets a Boost from Andy Ngo
Known fascist collaborator Andy Ngo, along with other right wing commentators, have shined a spotlight on an attempt by EPOA to intimidate a lawmaker…
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Ben Karpelman
Budgets, Housing, and Weed
Mayor Cassie's budget Q&A provides a possible preview of her 2021 campaign, Housing Hope still in the crosshairs of anti-housing activists, and Everett…
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Ben Karpelman
The Sequoia Norton Site, and Residents for Norton Playfield, are back
After tirelessly compromising their plans for a multifamily supportive housing complex in west Port Gardner, organized homeowners are still speaking…
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Ben Karpelman
EPD Drones, Sponsored by Trump's DHS
Among the agenda items this week includes a measure approving tens of thousands of dollars for the cops to purchase drones.
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Ben Karpelman
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