A dude is already lined up waiting to order off this menu.
  • Ansel Herz
  • A dude is already lined up waiting to order off this menu.

There’s a New Weed Shop in Town: As Ansel Herz reported on Slog last night, Uncle Ike’s opens today at noon at 2310 E. Union Street in the Central District. (As of an hour ago, a dude is already lined up, according to Ike's FB page.) Owner Ian Karl Eisenberg says he has enough supply to “stay open forever, I think.” Meanwhile, some local residents are concerned about the pot shop’s gentrifying effect on the neighborhood.

City Council Approves New Parking Meters and Rates: Market-based pricing—that is, pricing based on demand—is coming to Seattle, as well as new pay stations. As the Seattle Times reports, motorists in some areas may pay $3 an hour from 8-11 a.m., but $4 from during high-demand times, from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. SDOT will begin the project early next year and hope to complete it by the end of 2016.

Bus Cuts Tabled: Despite threats, the Metropolitan King County Council decided to cancel its plans to make cuts to service, citing a surge in sales-tax income and “a closer look at Metro Transit’s own budgets,” reports the Seattle Times.

People Are Still Pissed: About the Seattle Housing Authority’s proposal to raise the rent, reports King 5. Last night the SHA held its last meeting in a series of community hearings on its plan to raise rents by more than 500 percent over five years, which would affect more than one-third of its tenants. Here’s some background on the plan that apparently no one supports.

Looks like the swimming pool barge is definitely not happening.
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  • Looks like the swimming pool barge is definitely not happening.

Estimated Costs for Waterfront Plan Skyrocket: By as much as $200 million, due to Bertha, inflation, mitigation payments, administrative costs, and other factors, say mayoral staffers. As a result, Mayor Murray wants to scale back the ambitious plan. The Seattle Times has the details.

Seattle Arena Delayed, Again: The Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Sonics arena in Sodo was supposed to be completed this spring, but now isn’t expected until at least next February, reports KOMO News.

Boeing Moving Jobs Out of Washington State: As many as 2,000 employees could be affected by Boeing’s decision to move its defense and support-related services to cities such as Oklahoma City; St. Louis; Jacksonville, Florida; and Patuxent River, Maryland. The moves would happen in three years, reports KOMO.

This happened in the 32800 block of Southeast Auburn Black Diamond Road.
  • Courtesy of King County Sheriff's Office
  • This happened in the 32800 block of Southeast Auburn Black Diamond Road.


Fatal Collision Following Alleged Theft in Covington: One suspect was killed and another injured last night after fleeing from King County Sheriff’s Deputies and colliding with another vehicle, whose passenger was also seriously injured. According to a Sheriff’s Office press release, the suspects are alleged to have stolen items from a Covington store, and failed to stop when a deputy pursued them.

Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Protests Continue: Why have thousands of people taken to the streets for the fifth day in a row? Vox has the backstory. (And sorry, the protesters’ decision to hold their hands up doesn’t appear to be a gesture of solidarity with folks in Ferguson, reports Quartz.) Check out #occupycentral on Twitter or the Guardian’s live blog for updates.



There’s a Sexual Consent App: As in, an app that aims to prevent you from raping someone or from being raped. It’s called Good2Go, and its creator, Lee Ann Allman, hopes it will help college-age kids who are “so used to having technology that helps them with issues in their lives,” she told Slate. Here’s how it works:

After deciding that you would like to have sex with someone, launch the Good2Go app (free on iTunes and Google Play), hand the phone off to your potential partner, and allow him or her to navigate the process to determine if he or she is ready and willing. “Are We Good2Go?” the first screen asks, prompting the partner to answer “No, Thanks,” “Yes, but … we need to talk,” or “I’m Good2Go.”

There’s a whole bunch of other steps involved after that. While Allman seems to have good intentions, less certain is the effect the app might have on an actual rape case.

What Good2Go doesn’t tell users is that it keeps a private record of every “I’m Good2Go” agreement logged in its system, tied to both users’ personal phone numbers and Good2Go accounts. … Allman says that regular users aren’t permitted access to those records, but a government official with a subpoena could. … Good2Go may remind its users that consent can be revoked at any time, but there are still judges and juries that will take evidence that a person said “yes” to sex at one point, and conclude that they were asking for whatever happened later that night (or the next).

Meanwhile, the Times reports that it’s unclear whether “affirmative consent” policies—as now required on California college campuses—actually work.