…in which we can tell you of the following recent events:

• With all the talk about the new Legislative session being all about “safety and security,” and fiscal restraint, you’d think we didn’t have a bunch of Democrats running the joint.
• First came the highly publicized, potentially legally shady sting operation at Seattle nightclubs. Now, the bar employees charged as a result of the sting claim the city’s trying to throw the proverbial book at ’em, for no good reason.
• Different cops are being assigned to different patrol districts these days. In other public-safety news, the city promises to finally do something about the infamous Pine Street “zigzag,” in which pedestrians heading downtown have to cross Pine twice, due to only-one-side sidewalks that suddenly switch sides.
• You can now become a registered voter online.
• Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo claims it now has a safer tiger enclosure. You can test it if you want to; I think I have to wash my hair today.
• An Eastern Washington couple has been accused of running an Internet diploma mill, selling some 6,000 bogus degrees.
• Only in Alaska: “Most of the 30 bald eagles who survived a disastrous dive into a truck full of fish guts are close to recovery.”