Sally Clark will leave the city council in 10 days to take a new job at the University of Washington starting May 18.
Who's going to take Sally Clark's spot? City of Seattle

Forty-four People Have Applied for Sally Clark's Soon-to-Be Vacant City Council Seat: Among them, Crosscut reports, "are former council members Jan Drago and Peter Steinbrueck; Director of the city’s Human Services Department, John Okamoto; former Director of Washington State Ferries, David Moseley; and, most surprisingly, Howard S. Wright III, the Seattle business leader whose family company constructed the Space Needle," as well as former council member Heidi Wills and Clark staffer David Yeaworth. Here's how the appointment process works.

What's Mayor Ed Murray Doing on Gender Pay Equity? "Instead of doing something splashy (like, you know, how he banned travel to Indiana),"
says Seattlish, "Ed Murray is hoping to just drown the gender wage gap in bureaucracy."

Council Member Tom Rasmussen Is Worried About Lack of Parking: Since 2012, only 12 percent of apartments built in Seattle have been built without parking, KUOW reports. That number ought to be a lot higher.

#BlackLivesMatter Art Show in Columbia City: Go see it. (There was a small, meandering anti-police-brutality protest in Seattle yesterday, by the way, as part of a nationwide day of action.)

Statewide Protests for a Higher Minimum Wage Are Planned for Today: In Federal Way, Olympia, Spokane, Pasco, Sea-Tac, and culminating in Seattle, according to Working Washington.

In Yakima (represented by Senator Jim Honeyford), a judge found that the city systematically disenfranchised Latinos. A common sense bill to address that problem is being blocked by Republicans (including Honeyford.)
In Yakima (represented by Senator Jim Honeyford), a judge found that the city systematically disenfranchised Latinos. A common-sense bill to address that problem is being blocked by Republicans (including Honeyford). Alexandru Nika/Shutterstock

The Washington State Voting Rights Act Is on the Ropes: "A bill to aimed at protecting voting rights in Washington isn’t dead but it’s barely breathing," KPLU reports. "And immigrant and civil rights organizations are scrambling to keep it alive."

House Approves New Oil-Train Safety Rules: The law would impose an 8 cent tax per barrel of oil being moved by train through the state to raise funds for spill preparedness, KUOW reports, and require BNSF to provide advance notice of oil shipments to emergency responders. The amount of crude oil transported through the state could triple over the next five years, to nearly 9 billion gallons annually, according to the Department of Ecology.

Investigation into King County Sheriff Officer Finds Racist, Sexist Texts: Sergeant Dewey Burns sent texts to other members of the force "using slurs to refer to blacks, gay men, Mexicans, and Chinese, some of whom he encountered at a poker room and a gym," the Seattle Times reports. An internal investigation has recommended his firing.