The Seattle Times Editorial Board Thinks Hosting an Arctic Drilling Fleet in Seattle Is “Appropriate”: And they use exactly the same argument port commissioner Bill Bryant does to justify “appropriate.”
The Seattle Times Also Brings Up the Arctic Drilling Regulations Recently Proposed by the Obama Administration to Explain Why This Is “Appropriate”: But fails to mention the fact that those regulations would not be finalized in time for Shell’s Arctic drilling plans this summer.
A Hearing in Olympia Will Help Determine Future of Light Rail in Seattle: Ansel reports on the Sound Transit 3 expansion, and why the dream of regional mass transit will have to survive partisan efforts to kill it in the state legislature.
A Federal Mediator Goes to Washington State: To Pasco, specifically, where the Department of Justice representative will meet with police and community members in the wake of the police shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes last month. The same process took place in Ferguson, Missouri.
Black Brunch Showed Up in Fremont This Weekend: And an owner of Norm’s Ale House said, “I felt targeted because of my race.” Well, thank goodness this was just brunch, and no one was being arrested or shot at. (P.S. Here’s a primer on Black Brunch.)
Tenants Union’s Jonathan Grant Dings Council President Tim Burgess on TPP Vote: Last week, Burgess voted “no” on a proposed city council resolution expressing concern about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the secretive and enormous (these countries represent 40 percent of global GDP!) trade deal that could significantly weaken the public’s ability to hold corporations accountable for their behavior on environmental and labor issues. Yesterday, Grant, who’s running against Burgess, sent out a press release criticizing the city council president and saying he supports the resolution. Shots fired!
The Seattle Times Thinks That the City Council Caring About the TPP Is Silly: FYI.
The Third Piece of Bertha’s Front End Was Lifted Out of the Pit for Repairs Yesterday: And next up comes the big one—the 2,000 ton cutterhead and drive unit. Yeeeeayyyy.
More Than 70 Percent of Local HOV Lanes Are Failing: A new traffic study from the Puget Sound Regional Council shows that too many cars are in the HOV lanes, and 10 out of 14 local HOV lanes are congested.
Remember the Pot Activist Reporter in Alaska Who Quit Her Job on TV? The Anchorage police raided Charlo Greene’s cannabis club on Friday.
Oil Prices Have Fallen by More Than Half, but Plane Tickets Are Still Damn Expensive: The New York Times‘ Andrew Ross Sorkin says this is proof of the airline industry oligopoly.
SeaWorld Is Spending $10 Million on a PR Damage Control Campaign: Their killer whales are having a good time, see?
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