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Police say the dog attacked two women, sending one to the hospital. Raybon/Shutterstock

Police Shot and Killed a Pit Bull: "Police shot and killed a pit bull Thursday evening after the animal attacked two women and a dog in Seattle's Rainier Valley neighborhood," KOMO reports. "Both of the women were injured in the attack, as was the 40-year-old's dog. One woman was taken to Harborview Medical Center with 'serious' bite injuries."

Light Rail Could Be On Its Way Faster: Woot! "Light rail could take you from downtown Seattle to Ballard and West Seattle sooner than previously expected under a set of changes to Sound Transit 3 unveiled today," Heidi Groover reports.

Unions Block More Expensive U-Pass for UW Workers and Students: The college was poised to hike the price of the transit passes, but a coalition of several unions successfully protested the move. "The UW has played the unions against each other," SEIU 925 president Thomas Small told The Daily. "We have sometimes been at odds with each other, but we all decided we were going to get together and unite as a coalition of unions who will support each other on our issues."

Local Parking Laws Disproportionately Hurt the Poor: Duh? That's according to a new Seattle University study, Real Change reports. "Seattle, and other Washington cities like it, have systematically criminalized aspects of vehicle residency," according to the study. "Seattle also has a law, the 2011 Scofflaw Ordinance, that first boots and then impounds a vehicle with four or more outstanding parking tickets, a system that disproportionately punishes people who don’t have the money to pay their way out."

At last years MLK rally, Seattle mayor Ed Murray posed with protest organizers Gui Chevalier and Jorge Torres.
Seattle mayor Ed Murray posed with protesters at last year's MLK Day rally. Ansel Herz

Seattle's Vanishing Black Community: "To be Black in Seattle requires an ability to hold your own in mostly white spaces, a tolerance for curious stares and ill-considered comments when you just want to fit in, and a gift for drawing cultural sustenance from the most fleeting of moments," writes Tyrone Beason in the Seattle Times. The Central District was 70 percent black in the 1970s. Today it is less than one-fifth of its residents are black. Where have they gone and why did they leave? Go read the whole thing. "I miss my friends," says Pastor Patrinell Wright.

Beacon Hill School Raising Money to Maintain Playground: Schools are so underfunded that at Beacon Hill International School, the district has not replaced a hazardous and rusty play structure that was finally removed. Parents—and students, including one who contributed $20 from his piggy bank—have begun fundraising to purchase a new play structure, Marilee Jolin writes for the South Seattle Emerald.

High School Senior Writes About SPD's Safe Place Program: "If the Safe Place campaign was present when I first came out the closet," Andy Huynh writes, "things would have been different. I wouldn’t have felt defenseless all those years ago. I wouldn’t have felt that I had no say on what to do about the endless bullying."

This Week on Blabbermouth: Listen to our week-in-review podcast if you're confused, as many are, about why Washington State just held election primaries don't matter. Or you want the latest on the success of the Save KPLU campaign. Plus, an interview with UW researcher who knows something about global warming "because it’s happened before, millions of years ago." Tune in here.

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