Lines have been absurdly long lately.
Lines at the airport have been absurdly long lately. Carolina K. Smith MD / Shutterstock.com

Sea-Tac Airport Considers Replacing the TSA With Private Contractors: Airport officials and Senator Maria Cantwell are upset with lengthy wait lines at security checkpoints. Less than 20 out of 31 lanes have been open, recently, due to some kind of training/staffing snafu. "We have a problem and we can't operate the same way and expect different results," airport director Lance Lyttle tells KIRO. Yes. Please. Do something different.

That Charter School Law the Democrats Let Pass? No surprise here: The Washington Education Association is suing to overturn it. The state teachers union believes the new law "doesn't adequately address two constitutional flaws in the original charter law," KING 5 reports—a law ruled unconstitutional in September by the Washington Supreme Court.

Mentally Ill Man Still on Run from Police: Officials believe Anthony Garver, 28, broke out of Western State Hospital and fled to Spokane, KOMO reports. He's accused of killing a woman in 2013.

Juvenile Driven to Near-Suicide by Solidarity Confinement in Grays Harbor: Fifteen-year-old Matthew Doe was put in the hole at the Grays Harbor County Juvenile Detention Facility for eight days. In a letter to his mom, "Doe described a windowless, padded room in which he was fed only water and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches," KOMO reports."I'm really hungry and thirsty and I'm pretty sure what they are doing is illegal," he said. Staffers at the facility have been suspended.

Ted Cruz Appears to Be Leading Race in Washington Republican Primary: Trump supporters are not happy.

Two People Died in a Crash After a Police Chase in West Seattle: That's video of the crash from a police car that was chasing one of the vehicles. A 16-year-old driver of the vehicle led police on a high speed change and crashed into another car carrying a 21-year-old at 2 a.m. The car had been stolen hours earlier at gunpoint, according to police. "SPD is conducting a thorough investigation around the circumstances that led to this event," said police chief Kathleen O'Toole.

Study Finds Segregation Within Diverse Seattle Neighborhoods: “When we actually go and visit some of those blocks, we see a starkly different story where parks are different, where stores are different, even just blocks away,” UW sociology doctoral student Tim Thomas tells KUOW. “And the people who interact within those stores may be different clientele.”

Touré Speaks at the University of Washington on Microaggressions: The former MSNBC host calls them the "the pennies of racism."

Obama's Response to Ferguson Was to Commission a Report on Policing: Sue Rahr, the director of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, served on that commission. But the report's recommendations are unenforceable, KUOW reports, and Rahr says some police leaders refuse to even read the report.

This Week on Blabbermouth: Eli Sanders talks to a student representative from the Western Washington University's Assembly for Power and Liberation about their radical demands for change at the college and whether they violate principles of free speech and academic freedom. Plus, the one and only David Schmader on his new book, WEED: A USER'S GUIDE. Tune in here.

Bill Clinton to Black Lives Matter Protesters, Yesterday: "I’ll tell you another story about a place where black lives matter: Africa." Gawker has video. Also, he straight up lied:


Your Taxpayer Dollars at Work, Killing Kids: Saudi Arabia dropped U.S. bombs on Yemeni market on March 15, killing 97 civilians, including 25 children, Human Rights Watch found. The group is calling on the United States to stop selling bombs to Saudi Arabia.

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