The Seattle City Council voted against selling a part of Occidental Ave to billionaire Chris Hansen for another stadium.
The Seattle City Council voted against selling a part of Occidental Ave to billionaire Chris Hansen for an NBA arena. cpaulfell / Shutterstock.com

Seattle City Council Kills Street Vacation for SODO Arena: It came down to a 5-4 vote. Council Members Bruce Harrell, Tim Burgess, Rob Johnson, and Mike O'Brien supported selling a block Occidental Ave to billionaire Chris Hansen for a future basketball or hockey stadium. In the absence of an NBA team, however, Sally Bagshaw, Lisa Herbold, Kshama Sawant, Debora Juarez, and Lorena González voted against the street vacation. The Port of Seattle, which vehemently opposed the arena, is very happy about this.

This Is How Seattle-Area Adults Are Responding to the News:

But major league sports definitely don't have a toxic masculinity problem or anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hate Crime Targets Seattle University Associate Dean at the Broadway/Pike Starbucks: Dr. Bob Hughes described his assailant as young, white, clean cut, and well dressed in a blog post written after the assault. The man spat on Hughes and hurled racial epithets at him and a female colleague. The SPD is now investigating the assault as a hate crime. "Everyone at that café heard the incident and many saw it," Hughes wrote. "However, only one patron came up after the incident."

Boeing Skipped Half a Billion in State Tax Breaks Over Two Years: "The main tax breaks, which apply to all aerospace companies, consist of a 40 percent reduction in the state’s business tax rate, plus various business tax credits for capital expenditure on preproduction work — in Boeing’s case, the money spent on buildings and equipment in Everett to prepare for production of the new 777X jet," Dominic Gates reports. The state gave Boeing $522 million in just two years. The company has eliminated 6,000 jobs over the same period of time.

Now the feds are getting involved with Seattles annual anticapitalist march.
The Feds are getting involved with Seattle's annual anticapitalist march. Alex Garland

Seattle Police Will Work with the FBI and ATF to Round Up More May Day Protesters: Nine people were arrested during Sunday's anticapitalist march, but the SPD is looking for more. Police say five officers were injured—and that one was bitten in the arm, one hit by a Molotov cocktail, and another hit in the face with a rock. "The move represents a more aggressive stance than previous years, when May Day-related prosecutions were generally carried out in King County and city of Seattle courts," Steve Miletich reports.

Jeff Bezos Says He'll Match Up to $1 Million in Donations to Local Homeless Shelter: Amazon also recently donated a former motel to Mary's Place to use as an emergency family shelter until 2017.

Breathe in. Breathe out.
Breathe in. Breathe out. WSDOT

Bertha Is More Than a Quarter of the Way Done Drilling Under the Viaduct: The viaduct was shut down on April 29 for an estimated two weeks as Bertha drilled underneath the aging highway. "However, digging rates fluctuate, and state officials won’t predict whether Seattle Tunnel Partners will finish in the two-week estimate," Mike Lindblom reports.

Governor Jay Inslee Directs Department of Health to Increase Lead Testing: The governor wants to increase screening rates for lead poisoning among kids who are at the highest risk—children on Medicaid. More on this in a post later today.

Seattle's Office of Civil Rights Charges 23 Landlords with Renter Discrimination: The city conducted a series of tests to see whether landlords were treating prospective renters fairly and found that a third of the tests provided evidence of discrimination based on family status. Two-thirds of the landlords discriminated because of disability, according to the city, and more because of Section 8 vouchers.

Tomorrows Morning News will be brought to you by this guy.
Tomorrow's Morning News will be brought to you by this lil' guy. josefkubes/Shutterstock

Microsoft CEO on the Robots Coming for Our Jobs: Satya Nadella said that there's good reason for people to be concerned.

A Six-Foot Sinkhole Opened Up Near Light Rail Tunneling: It's a small hole that's already been filled with concrete, but now Sound Transit will start testing to see if they need to stabilize the ground before continuing to drill.

The US Is Resettling Its First Climate Refugees: Meet the residents of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, home to the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw and United Houma Nation tribes. Isle de Jean Charles is working with a $48 million federal grant to relocate its citizens away from rising sea levels.

Subscribe to the Slog newsletter here. All the best posts, delivered to your inbox every afternoon.