What's in the City Council's $4 Billion Budget? Funds for a Northgate pedestrian/bike bridge to connect the community college with the future light-rail station, a $750,000 bump in Murray's staffing budget, and the $130,000 needed to keep the young adult shelter open at the Orion Center.

A Win for Minimum Wage: It looks like certain SeaTac Airport and related workers have won the right to earn a $15 minimum wage, plus benefits.

Gut Over Mind: Scientists explore whether our guts rule our minds, and if probiotics or a gut transplant can help treat everything from autism and bipolar disorder to cowardice. (My gut mostly urges me to eat PopTarts in inappropriate settings, like at funerals, gun ranges, and teeth cleanings.)

Ladies, Can We Call a Truce? Science speculates that slut-shaming is a stigma "enforced mainly by women."

Seattle's First Bike Hotel: A local developer wants to build a boutique bike hotel along the Burke Gilman Trail in the U-District, featuring 26 hotel rooms, trail ride recommendations, on-site bike share, a restaurant and virtually no parking. In response, some neighboring businesses are clutching their pearls and guarding their parking spots.

Where's the Photo Opp of Barneys Kissing a Black Baby Swaddled in a Hermes Belt? Facing criticism for allegedly detaining black shoppers who'd purchased items from Barneys, the high-end retail store has announced that it will donate 100 percent of the sales from its collaboration with Jay Z to the Shawn Carter Foundation, which provides educational assistance to urban youths.

Look! A transit GIF!

Washington Needs Better Mental Health Laws: The parents of Joel Reuter, the young man struggling with mental health issues who was shot by Seattle police last summer, are in Olympia this week lobbying legislators to adopt mental health laws similar to those in Arizona.

The biggest difference they noticed was the time of treatment. In Arizona, Joel was ordered into a year of combined inpatient and outpatient care, with follow-up to make sure he took his medications. Washington judges can order 14 days of inpatient care or 90 days of outpatient treatment, that can be upped to a maximum 180 days. Doug Reuter said, "If the laws had been in place to keep Joel in the hospital until he was well and mandate a one-year follow-up where he is taking his medicine, none of the rest would have happened, none of it would have happened."

22 Dead in Beirut: Following a double suicide bombing outside the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital.

The Middle Class Is Still Disappearing: There are 700,000 fewer middle-income households now since the beginning of the economic crisis, despite our economic recovery.

Where'd the Middle Class Migrate To? Why, to Mexico! Ole!

Nobody's Perfect: Rob Ford, the Toronto mayor-in-name-only says he's not resigning, despite being stripped of everything but his pomp, circumstance, and pants. Ford says he deserves to still be mayor because he stopped drinking—and smoking crack, presumably—after finding Jesus. And he's working out more. Hell, one day he might even run for prime minister.

The Return of Monty Python: "We're getting together and putting on a show—it's real," Terry Jones told the BBC.

Your Body Is a Wonderland, Your Vagina, a Hoover Vacuum: Talk to your kids about sex or else cross-wielding strangers will be paid to come to their schools and tell them that condoms will give them cancer, and that vaginas are like greedy little Hoover vacuums and dicks are errant dust bunnies.

And finally, please enjoy this gentleman's disagreement about the art of trumpeting: