Russian Consulate shuttered; Battery St. Tunnel officially doomed; the Kingdome remembered.

Scenes from the March for Our Lives; for-profit immigration jail vs. Tacoma; Green Lake fish & chips stand not ‘landmarked’; what’s really behind the Michael Bennett indictment?

The aware, activist teens behind March For Our Lives; ‘Portlandia’ RIP; the state of booze in the state; a possible precedent toward Net censorship; one affluent guy you’re glad you’re not.

Another ‘brutalist’ edifice to be fought over; Bellevue mosque burns again; bike-share vandals get scarier; can the private sector solve homelessness? (probably not).

U District hardware icon to leave; Sen. Cantwell wants Facebook to talk; local Catholics vs. ICE; making ‘tiny houses’ more like ‘tiny houses.’

A strange/icky tale from the real Twin Peaks; King County Council takes over 4Culture; Pacific Ocean ‘blob’ recedes; what ‘Jeopardy!’ players don’t know about us.

A strange sight in Elliott Bay; should tech titans be split up?; a new angle to the 4Culture clash; solar panels at an ex-coal mine.

Bitcoin ‘miners’ want a LOT of our electricity; Maru Mora Villalpando’s day in court; iHeart Meida goes bust; what St. Pat’s really means.

The #Enough protests show what’s right with Those Kids Today; the Amazon angle to the Toys “R” Us demise; still more Alexie reactions; how Seattle’s Capitol Hill ‘gayborhood’ grew and shrank.

The Pike Place Market as a mixed-economy role model; student walkout preview; Metro stuck with not-fully ‘accessible’ minivans; what’s really keeping more women from tech careers?

‘People-sized salmon’ disappearing; two widely different local music legends gone; more Richard Sherman details; preparing for the student walkout.

Northgate gets less mall-y while PCC gets more ritzy; Bitcoin ‘miners’ invade Eastern Wash.; Richard Sherman’s goodbye; Hanford’s ‘normalization of deviance.’

3/9/18: BLACK UNLIKE ME

Clark,

The Amazon debate was against two people representing the Chamber of Commerce for the YES proposition. And while only 17% identified as Amazon, it was pretty clear from the start that the audience veered young and tech. (Ex-mayoral candidates) Moon and Oliver were able to swing the vote 6% points winning the debate as the audience slightly went fractionally for the NO side in the end.

Re Parking, reading Crank it’s no wonder that you frame it as a NIMBY problem. In reality it is developers that are producing expensive (not affordable) housing without parking because they can now by externalizing their costs to already crowded streets. The promise was that without parking, housing would be affordable.  And a 50 unit micro project–if it actually had affordable units, would be understandable without parking. Instead we get $1,200 220sft units that only drive other lower end units up in process, and on average 30+% of those units have cars pushing us over the capacity of street parking. We are not managing the problem well, and erring in favor of developer profits.

Regards,

Bill

Rachel Dolezal resurfaces again; deadly-force reform passes on Legislature’s last day; Amazon’s local effects get debated; Tully’s endgame underway?

The costliest painting ever sold comes to SAM; WA Legislature sprints to the finish; Chris Hansen keeps buying Sodo land; Seattle World’s Fair’s PR genius dies.