Smoke season starts tomorrow ( theconvergencezone.com )
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Starter home sales in Seattle drop 36%, largest of any US metro area ( www.kiro7.com )
My favorite candidate that I never vote for is back! ( lemmy.world )
The Needling: Fashions to Keep You From Being Run Over By Speeding Police Cars ( theneedling.com )
Last week KING5 shared with you what fall fashions are totally out and not what to wear this season by being the first local news outlet to show you video of a young woman’s last moments of life before being smashed by a Seattle Police Department cruiser going three times the posted speed limit without a siren on. Hint: Black...
The last remnant of the viaduct (2019) ( lemmy.world )
Was going through some pictures and came across this memory!
Police Contract Offers Big Raises, No Significant Accountability Improvements - PubliCola ( publicola.com )
The tentative contract, which runs through the end of 2023, is dated retroactively to January 6, 2021—the day of the national insurrection and attempted takeover of Congress by rioters attempting to overturn the election for Trump.
I was joking about a free Uber service, but Bellevue’s gone and done it ( www.seattletimes.com )
In a recent column about riding the empty ghost trams of Seattle’s streetcar, I noted that the one in South Lake Union is costing taxpayers more than $20 per ride. I cracked: “It would have been cheaper for the city to pay for me to hire an Uber.”...
What more do you want? ( lemmy.world )
In case you missed it.
Seattle’s minimum wage, raised again, among highest in nation ( www.seattletimes.com )
The largest video store in the US will now let you rent from anywhere in the country ( www.polygon.com )
Nice to see our local video store get national news…
Hōkūleʻa docked in Seattle on its journey to circumnavigate the Pacific ( i.imgur.com )
hokulea.com...
This should not be allowed ( lemmy.world )
From the Bainbridge Islanders Facebook group
Sound Transit unanimously approves East Link starter line to open spring 2024 ( mynorthwest.com )
Officer acquitted in death of Manuel Ellis hired by neighboring sheriff’s office ( www.theguardian.com )
SPD Detective Under Investigation for Pulling Over Metro Bus Driver ( www.thestranger.com )
First day of Seattle’s new drug law brings push by police, arrests ( web.archive.org )
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Unearthing the Original Sin of Urban Planning in Seattle [The Stranger] ( www.thestranger.com )
As a bonus, here’s a larger version of the subway system proposed in 1911 that the article mentions:...
Mayor Harrell Clarifies That ‘One Seattle’ Has Always Referred to the One Percent of Seattle with Waterfront Property [The Needling] ( theneedling.com )
Seattle, prepare for a 'topsy turvy' week of weather ( www.seattletimes.com )
With snow, rain, wind and possibly ice in this week’s forecast, Seattle’s National Weather Service says prepare for a “topsy turvy” week....
Op-Ed: The Seattle Police Department Has an Efficiency Problem ( www.theurbanist.org )
SOS - Save Our Scarecrow ( scarecrowvideo.org )
DOOM LOOP: Reboot ( lemmy.world )
[Opinion] Why the Shirtless Man Shouting on the Street Isn’t in the Hospital ( southseattleemerald.com )
“Follow the money” helps us figure this out. Inpatient hospital beds generate two bills: facility fees and professional fees. In most public hospitals, both go to support the whole operation. But not at UW Medicine, which operates a separate company, UW Physicians (aka Association of University Physicians), that uses the...
Fired Amazon employee-activist leads Seattle City Council race ( www.kuow.org )
GOP initiative backers lose fight to keep budget impacts off WA ballot ( www.seattletimes.com )
