The Morning After Super Tuesday: Looks like Trump has won Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Tennessee, Vermont, and Virginia. Clinton has won Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, Massachusetts, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama. Cruz won Alaska, Oklahoma, and Vermont. Bernie Sanders won Vermont, Oklahoma, Minnesota, and Colorado. And Rubio, oh Rubioโhe won measly Minnesota. Results here.
If You Want to Put All That in Context: You have to read this.
Some Local Republicans Are Worried About Sharing a November Ballot with the Donald: Just ask Chris Vance, Senator Patty Murray’s challenger, or Bill Bryant, the former port commissioner running for governor. (Neither would say whether they would refuse to vote for him if he becomes the nominee.) But there’s one state Republican who’s certainly not worried about sitting down-ballot from Donald Drumpf: state senator Doug Ericksen, chair of the Senate environment committee, who has been showering his Facebook feed with Trump propaganda for weeks.
Former Mars Hill Members Sue Pastor Mark Driscoll: “A 42-page complaint accuses [former Mars Hill executive elder John Sutton Turner and Driscoll] of raising money for specific purposes and then using the money for other things, including a ‘scam’ designed to make Driscoll a best-selling author,” the Seattle Times reports.
King County and Seattle Have a New Heroin Task Force: Mayor Ed Murray and King County Executive Dow Constantine’s goal is to provide access to more immediate assistance for local citizens struggling with addiction.
Seattle Subway Wants Sound Transit to Build a Line from the UW to Ballard: “[I]tโs essential that a Ballard to University District (Ballard/UW) line be included in ST3,” Seattle Subway writes on the Seattle Transit Blog. “Ballard/UW must be looked atย both as an extension of Ballard-Downtown and in the context of the transit restructures it could enable.”
Is the City Going to Buy Pronto, Seattle’s Broke Bike Share? ยฏ\_(ใ)_/ยฏ. The city council cast a split vote. But read Heidi’s post about the debate to learn about a Seattle city official who was horrified by a Playboy Playmate becoming the face of Miami’s bike share program. The horror!
This is what that looks like (via https://t.co/YAvQxsMRgI). HIDE THE CHILDREN. A HUMAN MAKING MONEY WITH HER BODY. pic.twitter.com/b6ptJNrLaP
โ Heidi Groover (@heidigroover) March 1, 2016
Monsanto Isn’t Responsible for Duwamish PCB Contamination, Monsanto Executive Says: You can read Monsanto executive vice president David F. Snively’s whole op-ed right here, which attempts to address the City Attorney’s argument that Monsanto was the “sole producer of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) for commercial use in the U.S. from 1935 to 1977.”
A Seattle Baby Now Has the World’s Tiniest Heart Valve: “Sadie” is part of a US clinical trial for teensy tiny mechanical heart valves.
An Anne Frank Exhibit Comes to Seattle’s New Holocaust Museum: You can check out artifacts loaned by the Auschwitz Memorial Museum until May 18.
South Dakota Governor Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bill That Passed His State Legislature: South Dakota Public Radio reports that Governor Dennis Daugaard said he had heard transgender students’ personal stories. “And so I saw things through their eyes in that sense. I had read other personal stories. Certainly I’m getting personal stories through the emails, and through what I read in the paper.”
