Seattle

Around $90 million per year in additional funding will bolster King County's roads division thanks to the 5-4 vote, with a small pass-through program providing a slice of the pie to local cities and towns. A provision capping Seattle's cut of that funding was ultimately defeated.

In the latest upheaval at the mayor’s office, Mayor Katie Wilson’s communications director, Seferiana Day, is out. Day, who was out of the office for nearly two months due to a medical issue and has been on intermittent leave, was asked to resign after turning down an offer to take on a new role overseeing council-mayor relations, according to sources. The office will also undergo an internal reorganization, reassigning existing staffers to new positions and making Esther Handy Wilson’s permanent chief of staff (Handy is currently serving in an interim role.)

The George and Dragon from the list is in Phoenix, not Fremont (presumably because ours lost their liquor license)

More than 100 cyclists heaped flowers on a “ghost bike” memorial at the intersection of East Yesler Way and 12th Avenue South on Saturday afternoon to memorialize a Seattle teacher who was struck and killed while biking near the intersection.

Sound Transit’s new light rail connection over Lake Washington has unleashed a tsunami of new passengers between Bellevue and Seattle, boosting the regional total to 155,000 daily boardings.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson pushed back against a claim by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt that if he’s elected, L.A.’s homeless population would move to Seattle to take advantage of that city’s drug laws.

A Texas company has formally signaled plans to build a data center in downtown Seattle, even as the city moves toward a moratorium that could impact the construction of such facilities.

Digital Realty of Austin, a real estate investment trust with more than 300 data centers worldwide, wants to demolish the building at 301 Virginia St. and replace it with a six-story structure: a data center on four floors plus a lab, office and retail space, permit filings show.

Lobbing Scorchers interviews Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson on the World Cup, social housing, pedestrianizing streets, transit, and more.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has proposed doubling a sales tax that funds transit service in Seattle, known as the Seattle Transit Measure, to 0.3 percent, up from the 0.15 percent tax that expires this year. The proposal would raise around $138 million over the next ten years to pay for bus service, service on the city’s two streetcars, and transit passes for low-income riders, among other programs.

The Sound Transit board voted Thursday to overhaul expansion plans, prioritizing the rail spine from Tacoma to Everett, while deferring indefinitely stations in Tukwila, Interbay, and Ballard. Seattle leaders got Graham Street back into plans, but lamented the stations put on ice.

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Hi Seattle,

I thought this would be a relevant topic to post about in your sublemmy, as there doesn't seem to be any closer ones to California, and teh order would likely help protect your water as well :)

Help stop Nestle stealing water from National Forest land to sell in polluting plastic bottles. Sign the linked Story of Stuff petition to put pressure on California’s Water Board to approving a Cease & Desist Order that would end this water theft once and for all.