There was a shooting in Everett on Sunday morning at 1:40 am.
There was a shooting in Everett at 1:40 a.m. on Sunday morning. An 18-year-old man was transported to Harborview with life-threatening injuries. Charles Mudede

Also Damaged in the Everett Shooting: Two homes, two vehicles, and a boat.

In Other Gun News: "A tense situation escalated Saturday evening when gunshots were fired near a KOMO reporter and photographer shortly after 5 p.m. in Mount Vernon."

There Have Been 227 Shootings So Far This Year in Seattle, as of July 20: According to the Seattle Times. "That’s more than one per day," Danny Westneat writes. "It’s up 24 percent over last year and 40 percent over 2013."

Guess What? There's One Republican Running for President Who Actually Thinks There Should Be Slightly Tougher Gun Laws! "I think every state should strengthen their laws," Bobby Jindal said yesterday, three days after a gunman with mental-health issues shot up a Louisiana movie theater.

The sockeye salmon in the Columbia River are not doing well this year.
The sockeye salmon in the Columbia River are way too warm. Sockeye salmon, Columbia River/Shutterstock

The Water in the Columbia River Is 5 to 6 Degrees Warmer Than Usual: And it's "wiping out at least half of this year's" sockeye salmon.

The Columbia Is Warm Because of Low Snowpack This Year, Weakening Salmon Immune Systems and Causing Infection: "The water temperatures in the Lower Columbia are physiologically unsustainable for salmon," a microbiologist who works for the US Fish and Wildlife Service says. “It’s crazy.”

Capitol Hill Block Party was not the people passing out from heatstroke scene like in years past. It rained!
Capitol Hill Block Party under an about-to-rain sky. Kelly O

We Really Needed That Rain Yesterday—and It Felt Great, Didn't It? As for the Block Party, "Rather than killing the buzz, the overcast atmosphere chilled things out, with the focus a little less on the party and a bit more on the music."

Several Hours Later and a Few Blocks Away, a Cyclist Crashed and Was Taken to the Hospital with Life-Threatening Injuries: The crash occurred near Belmont Avenue and East Pine Street at 4:39 a.m. "It did not appear the woman was struck by a car."

The ice caves when I visited them last summer.
The ice caves get bad cell-phone reception. Christopher Frizzelle

Which Is Why the Forest Service Wants to Install a Landline Closer to the Ice Caves: In case there are any more emergencies up there.

Obama Weighs In on All the Crazy Things Donald Trump and Mike Huckabee Have Been Saying: "We’re making a culture that is not conducive to good policy or good politics. The American people deserve better. Certainly presidential debates deserve better."

He Also Pushed for Gay Rights While He Was in Kenya: Which was a good and bold thing to do and is "likely to stir up colonial resentment." He just DGAF.

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