A 23-Year-Old Seattleite Is Going to Paris to Speak on a Panel with China's Lead Climate Negotiator and the President of Iceland: Sarra Tekola, known for her work in Seattle as a UW Divest, Black Lives Matter, and Gates Divest organizer, will be representing climate justice organization Got Green (as part of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance) on a panel discussing China's ambitious climate goals, including a cap-and-trade plan. "I'm going to talk about climate justice," Tekola told me in a Facebook message. "I'm going to call them out for not having any brown or black countries [on the panel], the countries of the formerly colonized, and the only Black person they could bring is an American." She also plans to talk about neocolonialism—and China's role in it.

State Supreme Court Upholds $15 Minimum Wage for Airport Workers: The court denied a motion for "reconsideration and clarification" filed by Alaska Airlines, the Washington Restaurant Association, and other major airport businesses after ruling in the workers' favor this summer. But will airport workers now have to sue for backpay?

A Western Washington University Student Has Been Arrested on Suspicion of a Hate Crime: University police arrested 19-year-old Tysen Campbell, named in a university-wide press release, as the suspect of an investigation made into threats to WWU students of color on Yik Yak, an anonymous social media app. WWU canceled classes last Tuesday while police investigated threats made after students began protesting the school's Viking mascot.

P.S. Here's How Rep. Jay Rodne's Freedom Foundation Interviewer Justified Laughing at a Lebanese Last Name: "I wasn’t mocking Jamal Raad because of his name," Jeff Rhodes, Freedom Foundation podcast host, told the Seattle Times. "I chuckled because the name sounded like it probably belonged to someone of Middle Eastern descent, possibly Syrian himself and possibly even Muslim — in which case the complaint would hardly be coming from a disinterested bystander," Rhodes wrote in an e-mail. Really. Then he misspelled Raad's name.

Chair of the KPLU Community Advisory Council Calls Selling the Station to KUOW "Fundamentally Misguided": The community advisory council, which exists because the Corporation for Public Broadcasting requires advisory boards for public radio, has sent a lengthy, damning letter to Pacific Lutheran University president Thomas Krise and the PLU Board of Regents. "A decision to sell KPLU to the University of Washington would cause the permanent loss of a cherished institution," Stephen Tan, chair of the council, writes. Read the rest here.

No Arrests Have Been Made in the QFC Shooting That Injured Five People in Capitol Hill: But the (formerly) 24-hour store will now close between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. QFC spokeswoman Melinda Merrill told the Seattle Times that this is supposed to "'eliminate'the store from being a gathering place after area bars empty out at closing time."

Only One-Tenth of Washington School Districts Have Acceptable Internet Speeds: A new report highlights affordability, lack of fiber access, and school budgets as barriers to students getting online.

But Tacoma—Not Seattle—Could Become the First Washington City with Municipal Broadband: The Tacoma Public Utilities Board will vote on the decision this coming Thursday. Seattle city council members voted against municipal broadband during the passing of this year's budget.

Pierce County Auditor Says Election System Isn't to Blame for Low Voter Turnout: "The ugly truth is that Americans turn out for hyper-partisan and obscenely financed presidential elections," Pierce County Auditor Julie Anderson writes in the Tacoma News Tribune. Washington state's election system, she adds, outperforms most.

Crosscut's Got a Deep-Dive on the Effort to Unionize University of Washington Faculty: Read all about it on a lunch break or something.

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