Heidi Groover
@heidigroover.bsky.social
seattle times real estate reporter / union person. on leave until spring 2026 for a fellowship at @umwallacehouse.bsky.social
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I'm so excited and honored to be part of this group (!!!!!) and learn in new ways (fun) about our broken housing market (depressing). Send me your best Ann Arbor recs!
WA tenants facing eviction are supposed to have the right to an attorney. Instead, this is what many cases in King County look like as legal aid groups struggle to keep up with a soaring number of evictions.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:53 AM
WA tenants facing eviction are supposed to have the right to an attorney. Instead, this is what many cases in King County look like as legal aid groups struggle to keep up with a soaring number of evictions.
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Extremely cool opportunity: The Seattle Times is hiring a DC correspondent. Rare these days for a local paper. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/oVo010...
D.C. Correspondent - The Seattle Times - Career Page
We’re seeking a a D.C.-based correspondent to uncover how federal power touches lives in the Pacific Northwest!
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July 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Extremely cool opportunity: The Seattle Times is hiring a DC correspondent. Rare these days for a local paper. seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/oVo010...
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Wilson, who has been in elected office for a decade and is a candidate for King County executive, was booked into the King County Correctional Facility Wednesday, according to records.
King County Assessor John Wilson arrested in stalking investigation
Wilson, who has been in elected office for a decade and is a candidate for King County executive, was booked into the King County Correctional Facility Wednesday, according to records.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wilson, who has been in elected office for a decade and is a candidate for King County executive, was booked into the King County Correctional Facility Wednesday, according to records.
Looking for a temporary journalism gig in Seattle? We're hiring a housing/real estate reporter to fill in while I'm at a fellowship, roughly August-May. Details here and my DMs are open! seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/rPnhnC...
Business Reporter, Real Estate (Temporary) - The Seattle Times - Career Page
We are seeking a driven reporter to temporarily cover real estate business reporting!
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June 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Looking for a temporary journalism gig in Seattle? We're hiring a housing/real estate reporter to fill in while I'm at a fellowship, roughly August-May. Details here and my DMs are open! seattletimes.applytojob.com/apply/rPnhnC...
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As of now it would: Repeal the city's roommate ordinance and restrict the winter eviction moratorium to people who had an unexpected loss of income. Moore wanted a roll back of the city's law mandating landlord offer new leases to current tenants, but the Housing Consortium opposed.
June 9, 2025 at 4:27 PM
As of now it would: Repeal the city's roommate ordinance and restrict the winter eviction moratorium to people who had an unexpected loss of income. Moore wanted a roll back of the city's law mandating landlord offer new leases to current tenants, but the Housing Consortium opposed.
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Though Cathy Moore is leaving, the long-discussed landlord-tenant legislation she was drafting might still be on the table. In fact, the bill had already shifted away from her and toward CM Solomon -- who is no longer a landlord -- and the mayor's office.
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Changes to Seattle’s renter laws likely to be proposed
Councilmember Cathy Moore’s announcement earlier this week that she would step down from her position seemingly threw into question that effort’s future.
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June 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Though Cathy Moore is leaving, the long-discussed landlord-tenant legislation she was drafting might still be on the table. In fact, the bill had already shifted away from her and toward CM Solomon -- who is no longer a landlord -- and the mayor's office.
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Trump’s travel ban shakes up WA immigrant communities www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Another layer of cruelty’: WA immigrant communities shaken by Trump travel ban
The Seattle region has large numbers of people from several of the countries named in the ban, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea and Iran.
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June 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump’s travel ban shakes up WA immigrant communities www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The current monthly mortgage payment for a mid-tier home (per Zillow) with 20% down. And this is by metro area, so it assumes a home price lower than you'll ever find in Seattle proper. RIP San Jose.
June 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The current monthly mortgage payment for a mid-tier home (per Zillow) with 20% down. And this is by metro area, so it assumes a home price lower than you'll ever find in Seattle proper. RIP San Jose.
WA gets its official rent increase cap for the rest of this year: 10%. This applies to you unless your rental was built in the last 12 years, is subsidized, or in certain cases where your landlord lives on site.
May 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
WA gets its official rent increase cap for the rest of this year: 10%. This applies to you unless your rental was built in the last 12 years, is subsidized, or in certain cases where your landlord lives on site.
“I don’t know what I’m going to do. I really don’t. Live in my car.”
Some tenants welcome WA’s new cap on rent hikes. Others fear it’s too little too late.
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Some tenants welcome WA’s new cap on rent hikes. Others fear it’s too little too late.
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Assessing the pros and cons of WA’s new rent hike cap
A new state law caps increases in rent for many tenants across Washington. As tenants welcome new stability, landlords worry more regulations could be on the way.
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May 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“I don’t know what I’m going to do. I really don’t. Live in my car.”
Some tenants welcome WA’s new cap on rent hikes. Others fear it’s too little too late.
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Some tenants welcome WA’s new cap on rent hikes. Others fear it’s too little too late.
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"Journalists, on the other hand, are obligated to point out everything that sucks, no matter what. This is why journalists are unpopular. Along with their personalities."
Journalism is a slow and uncertain grind with no shortcuts and if that is unsatisfying, well, imagine how we feel!
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Free Advice For Rich Idiots Who Have Some Bright Ideas About Media Ventures
The unsatisfying truth.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"Journalists, on the other hand, are obligated to point out everything that sucks, no matter what. This is why journalists are unpopular. Along with their personalities."
Who's got ideas for the Bastyr campus? www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
May 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Should real estate agents be able to list homes that not everyone can easily see? Seller choice or fair housing nightmare? Inside Seattle real estate's current beef: www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
The private home listings most buyers aren’t seeing
The debate about private home posts highlights fault lines about the role of listing services, the interests of buyers versus sellers and questions of fundamental fairness.
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May 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Should real estate agents be able to list homes that not everyone can easily see? Seller choice or fair housing nightmare? Inside Seattle real estate's current beef: www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
I'm so excited and honored to be part of this group (!!!!!) and learn in new ways (fun) about our broken housing market (depressing). Send me your best Ann Arbor recs!
May 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I'm so excited and honored to be part of this group (!!!!!) and learn in new ways (fun) about our broken housing market (depressing). Send me your best Ann Arbor recs!
Gov. Ferguson signs:
-cap on rent hikes
-parking reform
-condo law changes
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-cap on rent hikes
-parking reform
-condo law changes
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Gov. Ferguson signs slate of 10 new WA housing bills into law
Easily the most contested housing bill of the session, House Bill 1217 limits the amount a landlord can raise rent on tenants in a yearly period.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Gov. Ferguson signs:
-cap on rent hikes
-parking reform
-condo law changes
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
-cap on rent hikes
-parking reform
-condo law changes
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Trump's war on woke comes for Seattle housing programs www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
White House blasts Seattle housing program as ‘woke,’ pitches budget cuts
President Donald Trump's 2026 budget proposal would slash funding for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, bringing cuts to key programs in WA.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Trump's war on woke comes for Seattle housing programs www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
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ICYMI, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I made a podcast last year about Jesse Johnson, who spent 17 years on Oregon's death row. It's a shocking case. Perhaps what's even more shocking is that a show about this level of injustice could be lost in our news cycle. So, this award feels nice.
"Hush" won first place in the National Headliner Awards for investigative podcasts! @leahsottile.bsky.social and I brought for the story of Jesse Johnson, a man who spent 17 years on death row and many more locked up for a crime he says he didn't commit.
Listen here: www.opb.org/show/hush/
Listen here: www.opb.org/show/hush/
April 30, 2025 at 3:57 PM
ICYMI, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I made a podcast last year about Jesse Johnson, who spent 17 years on Oregon's death row. It's a shocking case. Perhaps what's even more shocking is that a show about this level of injustice could be lost in our news cycle. So, this award feels nice.
After years of tenant advocates pushing for rent-hike limits in WA, lawmakers just passed a bill to cap many rent increases at 7% + inflation or 10%, whichever is less. Now the question is, will Gov. Ferguson sign it? via @ssowersby.bsky.social
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WA bill to cap rent hikes clears both chambers, heads to governor
OLYMPIA — Democratic lawmakers passed a compromise version of a bill to cap yearly rent increases Sunday, the final day of the state's 2025 legislative session. The latest version of House Bill 1217,...
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April 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
After years of tenant advocates pushing for rent-hike limits in WA, lawmakers just passed a bill to cap many rent increases at 7% + inflation or 10%, whichever is less. Now the question is, will Gov. Ferguson sign it? via @ssowersby.bsky.social
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Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...
Daniel Bice
Daniel Bice is a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Watchdog team.
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April 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...
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Pike Place Market, the Seattle icon and tourist draw, is going (partially) car free beginning tomorrow.
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Pike Place Market banning most vehicle traffic in test run
Regular traffic on Pike Place will be cut off, with certain exceptions. The goal of restricting cars is to improve Market access and safety for pedestrians.
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April 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Pike Place Market, the Seattle icon and tourist draw, is going (partially) car free beginning tomorrow.
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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“Leaving no crystal unturned, Sottile unearths intriguing similarities across disparate fringe groups (near-constant antisemitism, frequent female leadership) that bolster her thesis that cults are a feature, not a bug, of American spiritual life.”
www.publishersweekly.com/9781538742600
www.publishersweekly.com/9781538742600
Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age by Leah Sottile
Journalist Sottile (When the Moon Turns to Blood) offers an ambitious study of Love Has Won, a spiritual group and alleged cult....
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January 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
“Leaving no crystal unturned, Sottile unearths intriguing similarities across disparate fringe groups (near-constant antisemitism, frequent female leadership) that bolster her thesis that cults are a feature, not a bug, of American spiritual life.”
www.publishersweekly.com/9781538742600
www.publishersweekly.com/9781538742600
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If you care about Snohomish County/WA state journalism, tell the new owners not to gut the quality of our news.
Email them at: letters@heraldnet.com
Email them at: letters@heraldnet.com
“‘This would essentially spam the front page of the Herald website with worthless content while good stories go untold,’ said Jordan Hansen, a Herald reporter and Everett NewsGuild member.” myeverettnews.com/2024/12/06/e...
Everett Herald Journalists Denounce Bosses' Proposal to Tie Their Wages to Grueling Story Quotas | My Everett News
According to the Everett NewsGuild, the new owners of the Daily Herald in Everett, WA want to inflict financial punishment on the paper’s unionized
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December 7, 2024 at 7:04 PM
If you care about Snohomish County/WA state journalism, tell the new owners not to gut the quality of our news.
Email them at: letters@heraldnet.com
Email them at: letters@heraldnet.com
“‘This would essentially spam the front page of the Herald website with worthless content while good stories go untold,’ said Jordan Hansen, a Herald reporter and Everett NewsGuild member.” myeverettnews.com/2024/12/06/e...
Everett Herald Journalists Denounce Bosses' Proposal to Tie Their Wages to Grueling Story Quotas | My Everett News
According to the Everett NewsGuild, the new owners of the Daily Herald in Everett, WA want to inflict financial punishment on the paper’s unionized
myeverettnews.com
December 7, 2024 at 6:59 PM
“‘This would essentially spam the front page of the Herald website with worthless content while good stories go untold,’ said Jordan Hansen, a Herald reporter and Everett NewsGuild member.” myeverettnews.com/2024/12/06/e...
In a housing market this expensive, sometimes you end up staying put wayyyy longer than you expected (she typed from the studio apartment where she has lived for a decade). www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...
He never planned to stay long in his studio apartment. But now it’s been 18 years
Seattle-area renters normally move before hitting the five-year mark, but more and more are staying longer.
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December 4, 2024 at 1:22 AM
In a housing market this expensive, sometimes you end up staying put wayyyy longer than you expected (she typed from the studio apartment where she has lived for a decade). www.seattletimes.com/business/rea...