"Upon further examination I realized it was a coyote": According to MyBallard, there have been several sightings of a creature that is not a dog and looks "well fed and not afraid."

Real Housewives of Kirkland? A casting call for "20-40 year olds who made their money in Washington's booming tech center," "live in Seattle or Eastside area," and "make more money than you know how to spend."

Amazon's $1.1 billion data center: Planned for Dublin, Ohio, in exchange for "a 100 percent, 15-year sales-tax exemption." Oh, also the company gets a tax credit for adding jobs. And: "Amazon also is working to get land for the site for free from the city."

Danny Westneat rides Seattle's bus system: Is dismayed because it has problems, fails to note the role of his own newspaper's editorial page in perpetuating those problems, get smacked around by Seattlish.

Rent increase for Seattle low-income housing tenants: It's causing "panic," according to The Seattle Times. The Seattle Housing Authority calls the change "Stepping Forward," and:

It would pair rent hikes with job counseling and encourage tenants who are able to work to become self-sufficient, SHA brass say.

But Mayor Ed Murray, City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and others oppose the plan, setting up a showdown at City Hall for the future of public housing in Seattle.

A public meeting on the matter is set for this evening at 6 p.m. at the Meadowbrook Community Center.

Obama to send troops to fight Ebola: The New York Times reports they'll help construct treatment facilities and "train up to 500 health care workers a week to deal with the crisis."

Get ready for climate-change refugees in Seattle: "The good news, according to the climate models, is that things are likely to be much worse elsewhere," says Knute Berger. The bad news: People fleeing elsewhere will be coming here.

A faster phase-out of gases that power your office air conditioner: "The Obama administration is preparing to introduce major steps to phase out production of a popular chemical coolant used in refrigerators and air conditioners, citing growing evidence that the substance is contributing to the warming of the planet," the Washington Post reports. This isn't Freon, which got banned in the 1990s for tearing up the ozone. This is Freon's replacement, R-134a, which doesn't tear up ozone but is thought to be a bigger driver of climate change than carbon dioxide.

What Seattle's new waterfront park might look like: "Leaders now believe they’ve come up with a way to pay for the park and keep it active and safe." (Reminder: Here's what the waterfront park might look like "if all the world's ice sheets melt".)