Driver Crashes Into North Seattle Building, Flees “Police are looking for the driver of a car that took out the corner of a building early Monday in North Seattle, injuring a passenger,” reports KOMO. The passenger was found trapped inside the vehicle and taken to the hospital. The driver was gone. The building is home to the nonprofit Granite Curling Club.
New Youth Homeless Shelter Opens in Belltown: “The new shelter for ages 18-24 is the only privately funded young adult shelter in the state, the second largest of any young adult shelter in the state,” KOMO reports. The shelter has 18 beds. A recent count showed a six percent increase in youth homelessness in King County over the last year.
Boeing Softens Its Approach Toward Engineers Union: The head of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, representing about 20,000 engineers, says new Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg isn’t an anti-union hard-liner like his predecessor. The union votes on a new six-year contract this week.
Body of Missing Mountlake Terrace Woman Found: “The body of Cheryl DeBoer, 54, was found by a group of searchers in a culvert near the King-Snohomish County line at Cedar Way and 244th Street Southwest,” KIRO 7 reports. “It is not yet known how DeBoer died.” She worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
More Delays to Police Accountability Reforms: Those dozens of improvements to the loophole-ridden police accountability system that the city’s Community Police Commission recommended back in… April 2014? Under the Murray administration and the Justice Department consent decree, they’re being delayed yet again.
Applicants to the City’s Housing Policy Focus Groups Are Probably NIMBYs: So far, the vast majority of applicants to the focus groups that will influence the city’s affordable housing policies appear to be “white North End homeowners—precisely the sort of people most inclined, if numerous heated HALA [Housing Affordability and Livability Agenda] presentations over the past few months are any indication, to oppose the plan altogether,” reports Erica C. Barnett.
Council Member Kshama Sawant to Hold Hearing Tomorrow on 23rd Ave. Construction: The business owners who plan to testify about the impact of the construction on their small businesses include Sara Mae of 701 Coffee, Justin Gerardy of Standard Brewing, Nop Zay of Mamas Cafe, and Saad Ali of 99 Cent Plus, CHS reports.
We’re Halfway Through Black History Month: So go explore Blackpast.org, run by University of Washington professor Quintard Taylor. “At first, I sort of bristled at the comparison to Wikipedia, but we actually want BlackPast to be a kind of Wikipedia for African-American and African history,” he tells KPLU. ““Society did not recognize African American history.”
There’s Nothing Wrong With Saying That Antonin Scalia Was a Terrible Human: a) He was a powerful public figure, not a private citizen, b) He was an asshole. “If he wanted respect in death, the man should’ve shown it to more people in life.”
This post has been updated.