Jayapal's office said the stories Buzzfeed reported were unrepresentative and that "women of color are often unjustly targeted, regularly held to higher standards than their male colleagues, and always put under a sexist microscope." COURTESY CONGRESSWOMAN PRAMILA JAYAPAL'S OFFICE

117 COVID cases in Seattle Public Schools: Students account for most of those infections, and the highest concentration of cases shows up at schools in Central and South Seattle. The district has a total of 51,650 students. SPS updates its dashboard here each Monday.

It's going around: We don't know if they're catching COVID-19 in the schools, and "severe illness continues to be uncommon, especially among younger children," but kids now represent 27% of infections, whereas they only accounted for 15% of infections "since the start of the pandemic," the Washington Post reports. In some schools, the number of infected kids so far now exceeds the number of infections in kids in "all of last year while forcing nearly 1,700 temporary closures."

City Council sorta splits the difference: The Seattle City Council rejected proposals from both Alex Pedersen (who wanted to allocate more money to police hiring) and Kshama Sawant (who wanted to move more money away from the Seattle Police Department). Instead, the council voted to split $15 million in savings from SPD officer departures between SPD and community-based programs. The cops will keep $10 million, Dan Beekman reports for the Seattle Times.

The Great American Beer Festival crowned Seattle's Cloudburst Brewing as "The Brewery and Brewer of the Year." Cloudburst's Steve Luke (above) is "Seattle's hop whisperer," says Lester Black. LESTER BLACK

Cloudburst is a winner, baby! Denver's Great American Beer Festival named Seattle's Cloudburst Brewing this year's best brewery and brewer. The seven-person brewery won in the small brewery category, notes Tan Vinh at the Seattle Times, and won alongside other winning Seattle breweries, like Stoup Brewing (their Stoup NW Red won silver in the American Amber/Red Ale competition) and Fremont Brewing (their Brew 4000 won silver in the Old Ale or Strong Ale or Barley Wine competition).

In his reporting for The Stranger, Lester Black frequently called Cloudburst's head brewer and founder Steve Luke a "hop whisperer," noting how "he can give an IPA such strong notes of watermelon or cherry or creamy coconut or flowers or pine that it can seem like he is artificially flavoring his beer. But he’s not; he just treats hops with the same care and attention to detail that a great winemaker treats grapes."

Cloudburst during less tragic times. Lester Black

Lil Nas X at the VMAs this weekend, shoving homosexuality down our throats like we deserve. Theo Wargo / Staff / Getty Images

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— West Seattle Blog (@westseattleblog) September 13, 2021

Idaho’s sending us their worst. Idaho’s Republican Governor Brad Little has refused to implement basic protections against COVID — no mask requirements, and he’s exploring ways to stop people from getting vaccinated. As a result, Idahoans are dying at an alarming rate, hospitals just authorized the rationing of care, and they’re sending lots of Infected Idahoans to Washington. That’s forcing some Washington hospitals to postpone procedures, and many Washington healthcare workers are simply quitting after more than a year of working double shifts.

This weekend was the anniversary of 9/11. Let’s see what Caitlin Jenner has had to say about the occasion.

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— backwoods barbie (of size) (@mayofraud) September 12, 2021

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, still awaits trial because the USA complicated the case by torturing him and four other co-conspirators. Handout / GETTY IMAGES

Seattle startup City Pods aims to address homelessness with standalone indoor mini homes https://t.co/LiQaFtbj0b
— GeekWire (@geekwire) September 10, 2021

We do not need Amazon Fire Tablets in tiny shelters that only work inside bigger shelters to solve the homeless crisis. We need to triple the pay of social workers, raise a billion dollars a year in progressive taxes to pay for publicly owned affordable housing, and legalize apartments citywide. Anything that's not one of those things is a tedious waste of time and money.

It's not just Seattle: Housing prices have risen all around the state over the last four years, especially in Washington's smaller cities, according to a new analysis from Sightline. Median rents in Spokane jumped over 50% in the last four years, and home prices have followed suit. State lawmakers can help slow these skyrocketing prices, Dan Bertolet argues, by reforming zoning laws statewide next session.