High Speed Crash Injures Five on Aurora: “Five people were injured early Friday when a car blew through an Aurora Avenue intersection at more than 100 mph,” KOMO reports, “and slammed into another car, police said.”
Ten Days Notice for RV Campers Force to Move from Interbay: The city-sanctioned camper location, known as an RV safe lot, is shutting down. “They towed people over here. Now they are trying to get us all to move,” one camper told KING 5. “We don’t want to break up our community.” 25 campers are faced with a choice: go to a safe lot in Interbay, with space for only 15 of them, or another site in Ballard.
It’s Going to Get Hot This Weekend: Forecasts show 87 and 90 degree highs on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. Go swimming!
Seattle University Sit-In Continues: “Though the dean of Seattle University’s Matteo Ricci College has been placed on administrative leave,” CHS reports, “the sit-in to protest of what students say is a hostile climate at the school continues.” The students want the college to appoint a women of color as interim dean. The Seattle Times reports that eight of the college’s 17 faculty members also wanted Dean Jodi Kelly to step down.
Tukwila High School Is Truly “Diverse”: “A lot of people talk about ‘celebrating diversity,’ but at Tukwila’s Foster High School, students live it every day,” KING 5 reports. Students hail from 50 different countries and speak 45 different languages. 72 percent of them are low income and 27 percent speak English as a second language. But 80 percent of them graduate. An assistant principal says the diversity strengthens the school: “The students are all so different, they really have no choice but to accept and even depend on each other.”
Jungle Resident Relies on Nearby Methadone Clinic: KUOW continues its excellent series of profiles of folks who live underneath Interstate 5 with Kevin Boggs, who “moved to Seattle to pursue his glass blowing dreams,” but became addicted to opiates. Boggs recently found work as a welder in Redmond.
Cause of Downtown Power Outage Identified: A “failure to block backup circuit breakers during testing of newly installed equipment” led to last week’s outage, according to Seattle City Light.
This Week on Blabbermouth: Television critic Melanie McFaraland on reports of MTV’s “The Real World” coming to Capitol Hill, self-loathing plutocrat Nick Hanauer on why Obama’s big paid overtime rule change is so important for workers, and Council Member Mike O’Brien on the mayor’s push to clear The Jungle. Listen here.
The Mariners Staged a Historic Comeback Last Night: Highlights!
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