Or we could just have functional public transit.
Or we could have functional public transit. Charles Mudede

Seattle's Slowing Down: City officials announced Tuesday that some of the city's busiest streets—including Pike/Pine—will have their speed limits reduced from 30 MPH to 25 MPH in order to improve survival rates when (not if) people get hit by cars. All residential neighborhoods will have their speeds reduced from 25 MPH to 20 MPH.

The Seattle Times Published a Very Telling Photo on the Front Page: It shows a homeless man giving major side-eye to state senator Mark Miloscia (R-Federal Way), who wants to ban local governments from setting rules around encampments that are "more lenient" than a state standard. Local governments that do not enforce the state standard, he said, would lose some source of state funding. "The proposal aims to push back against a proposal being considered by the Seattle City Council — and favored by civil-rights groups— that would make it more difficult for the city to evict campers from unauthorized encampments," the Times reports.

The Oregon Wildlife Refuge Trial Has Begun: The 12-person jury is all white. One attorney described her client as "an old hippie who can't shut up." Another said that rural people "are now an endangered species."

Dogs Attack Yakima Petting Zoo: A miniature horse, three goats, a pig, and two dogs are now dead. A donkey survived. "It was a bloodbath," the petting zoo farm director told the Seattle Times. This story is not for the faint of heart.

The Man Suspected of Killing Homeless Teen with a Car Has Been Booked into King County Jail: Oscar Gutierrez de Jesus is expected to make a court appearance Wednesday.

Microsoft Researchers Build Software That Can Understand Human Speech Almost as Well as Humans: Forget shouting at Siri. Microsoft says it has built speech recognition software with an error rate of just 6.3 percent. The best error rate anyone met previously was 6.6 percent.

City Council Extends Deadline to Figure Out Uber and Lyft Unionization Rules: The big issue now is figuring out who should be able to vote on whether to join the union. Part-time drivers? Full-time? Backers of the unionization legislation fear that Uber could flood the pool with scabs.

City Council Will Also Likely Pass Secure Scheduling Rules Next Week: The rules would apply to big retail stores and food chains, and would attempt to protect workers from last-minute, unpredictable scheduling. The law would require employers to do things like give schedules at least two weeks in advance and offer extra hours to current employees before giving them to new workers.

The People Who Want to Lid I-5 Now Have a Website: It is here. And no matter what you put on top of it, the freeway choked with cars is still there.

A Canadian Judge Asked a Rape Victim Why She Couldn't Keep Her Knees Together: The attitude is far more common than most of us would like to think.