Governor Inslee Declares Emergency Drought in Three Parts of the State: Because snowpack is at record-breaking lows. The Department of Ecology wants $9 million to keep agriculture and fisheries alive on the Olympic Peninsula, in Walla Walla, and east of the Cascades.
But Sunday Broke Rain Records in Seattle After Weeks of Freakishly Agreeable Weather: The National Weather Service recorded 1.57 inches of rainfall in Seattle by 6 p.m. The previous record for March 15 in Seattle? Just 0.91 inches.
At Least We’re Not in Boston: The city is currently battling hellish amounts of snow.
ICYMI, the Seattle Times Closed Its DC Bureau: Eli broke the news.
State Senator Pramila Jayapal Endorses Kshama Sawant: Very interesting, considering Jayapal’s close ties to the mayor as well. Read Heidi here.
Median Income Near Lake Sammamish is $125,000: So, in reference to last week’s debate at the Seattle Times, does this really reflect middle-class life? No. There’s clearly some out-of-whack economic and social privilege going on here. The same census tract counts zero black people.
The Port of Seattle’s Arctic Drilling Fleet Clash Has Become a National Story: The New York Times’ Kirk Johnson wrote about the protest last week and environmental groups’ lawsuit against the port. Thinkprogress and Grist have covered the story, too. Forbes, meanwhile, thinks that Seattleites are being a bunch of poopyheads suffering from a case of cognitive dissonance, but doesn’t acknowledge the cognitive dissonance of a public agency making a decision that the public is loudly opposing. There’s also a fact wrong in the lede; it’s not the Kulluk coming to Seattle, Forbes!
Breaking news: The Port’s long term plan for terminal 5 after Shell Oil’s Arctic drilling fleet is done pic.twitter.com/nK50UESN9n
— Mike McGinn (@mayormcginn) March 14, 2015
Wonderful Seattle activists fighting to block Shell from using their port as base for Arctic drilling. #fossilfreeze http://t.co/E6omw9qwNt
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) March 12, 2015
But How Come Governor Inslee’s So Quiet About the Port? Not a peep from the greenest governor after repeated requests for comment.
Tent City IV Moved to an Issaquah Campground After Their Permit Expired: And after King County <a href=”http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/03/14/tent-city-4-issaquah-moves-no-permit/24783591/
“>denied them a new one at the campground.
Sir Mix-A-Lot Goes to His First-Ever SXSW Tech Conference, Finds Out People Are Dumb: “I’m blown away by how many cats come down here [and] don’t know absolutely nothing about what they’re talking about,” Mix told his TechCrunch interviewer.
The President Made a Joke About Legal Weed to a Bunch of Reporters: But it wasn’t that funny. Especially not when you consider the federal government’s recent efforts to go after a family of medical marijuana growers.
Cyclone Pam Devastates the Impoverished Island Nation of Vanuatu: The 185-mile-per-hour storm “wiped out” all recent development on Saturday, Vanuatu’s president Baldwin Lonsdale said. The BBC reports that aid workers say it could be one of the area’s worst disasters ever.
Vlad Is Ba-aaaaack: After lots of speculation about where the hell he went for more than a week, a smiling Vladimir Putin has now reappeared just in time to plan military exercises in the Arctic. Oh, Vlad.
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