BMW Appears to Be Testing Car Sharing Service in Downtown Seattle: The service is called DriveNow, it's more expensive than Car2G0, but the cars it uses are lovely electric BMW i3s. I saw a few of them parked in Belltown earlier this week. The City of Seattle has given 63 vehicle permits to the company, but BMW would only tell Geekwire it's "exploring the potential" of launching DriveNow here.
Harper Lee Is Dead: "Celebrated American writer Harper Lee, best known for penning the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89," the Huffington Post reports.
Washington Attorney General Says Campaign Against GMO Labeling Hid Donors: "A food-industry group tried to shield identities of major corporations that spent $11 million to defeat a 2013 food-labeling initiative," the Seattle Times reports, "in what Attorney General Bob Ferguson argues is among the worst cases of concealment in state history."
Save KPLU Fundraising Effort Raises $1.4 Million: The radio station has about four months left to raise another $5.6 million in order to stay independent. Want to donate your car? Now you can donate your car.
Did You Read This Feature on Seattle's Real Estate Market Yet? Seattle is experiencing a high rise bubble fueled by international investors. Paul Roberts explores the pros and cons.
Want to Get Involved in the Democratic Presidential Nomination Process? Josh Kelety explains how it works. "I would describe it as managed chaos,â says one precinct committee officer. "But it can be a lot of fun."
International District Park Named After Donnie Chin: The renowned anti-violence activist was gunned down in the ID last summer. Renaming the park now means the city has to suspend a policy requiring the person to have died at least three years ago before a park can be named after them.
Pacific Northwest Could Become a Petrochemical Export Hub: That's according to a new study from the environmental think tank Sightline. Among the proposed projects are a Methanol plant in Tacoma, along with two more in Southern Washington and in Oregon. Plus, Tesoro intends to build a facility in Anacortes exporting a plastic called xylene to Asia. "The question that this region is facing is whether weâre going to continue this kind of clean energy legacy that we have, or whether weâre going to become Houston on the Pacific," Sightline's Eric de Place tells KPLU.
