The Kids Are All Right: As Paige Cornwell reported in the Times, a group of mostly high school students rallied at Seattle Central yesterday in support of their immigrant classmates who were brought here as children. “We wanted to show solidarity for the undocumented community,” one 17-year-old Franklin senior told Cornwell. “We want to make them feel comfortable and feel like they belong, because they do belong.”
Most People Looking to Buy Homes in Seattle Are Not From Seattle: At least according to one home-buying search engine. Trulia found that people who live in Seattle are looking for cheaper places to live outside the city proper, while people from out of town are looking for residences downtown and in Capitol Hill.
A Dog Warned West Seattle Apartment Dwellers of a Fire: The apartment building was consumed by flames at around 1 a.m. last night. Kona the dog barked to wake up sleeping apartment dwellers, KOMO reports. Six units were damaged, and four residents are now taking shelter at a nearby church. No one was hurt.
Federal Labor Officials Make Metro Pay Up: The transit service hadn’t been paying full wages for pre-trip inspections that took longer than the hours Metro had paid. A federal inquiry, motivated by Amalgamated Transit Union Local 587, found that the service owed workers $6.4 million in back pay. Metro General Manager Rob Gannon said the payment won’t affect bus service.
Racing on I-5 Leads to Crash: The Washington State Patrol says that a “Kia Soul and a Mazda Miata were racing on northbound I-5 Thursday afternoon.” One of the cars lost control and struck the other. One survivor has critical injuries. State troopers say another red car hit a concrete barrier but sped away.
Did Whole Foods Get Hacked? Seattle Times reporter Matt Day says the Amazon-owned grocery store is investigating whether customer credit card info was stolen from its restaurants and taprooms. Whole Foods says it’s hired “a leading cyber security forensics firm” and contacted law enforcement.
Smelly Honey Bucket Lawsuit Gets Class Action Status: At first, four residents of Pacific in Pierce County said that the odors and gases from a local Honey Bucket cleaning station exacerbated their health problems. On Thursday, a judge approved the lawsuit as a class action.
Some Washington Farmers Are Trying to Protect Their Migrant Workers: Crosscut looks at one Skagit Valley farmer who’s altered his farming schedule and crops in order to provide year-round employment for migrant workers who face additional risk from federal immigration officials when they transfer locations and jobs.
Some Puerto Rican Seattleites Still Haven’t Heard from Family Back Home: KING 5 reports on a group of Puerto Ricans who are trying to organize help for the hurricane-destroyed territory.
The Mayor of San Juan Has Words for the Trump Administration: Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke told reporters on Thursday that the aid effort in Puerto Rico is going “very well” and that it was “a good-news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place in such a devastating hurricane.” In response, San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz called Duke’s comments “irresponsible.” “Dammit, this is not a good-news story,” Cruz told CNN. “This is a people-are-dying story. This is a life-or-death story. … When you have people out there dying, literally scraping for food, where is the good news?”
