8/1/23 Primary election results
Any thoughts?...
City Council sends $970M Housing Levy to Seattle voters (crosscut.com)
After the shoreline in the Elliot Bay park was washed out after a storm, the Park Department filled it in with a new garden / bench. (lemmy.world)
List of Drive-in and outdoor theaters in Western Washington (www.king5.com)
There were way more of these than I knew!
Hello Seattle!
Looking forward to seeing this community grow.
Seattle Homeless Disguise Themselves as Trees in Effort to Get Protection from City (theneedling.com)
Downtown Seattle makes moves to become a 24/7 city (seattlemag.com)
I switched my daily news consumption to start with KUOW's morning news podcast and it's good (www.kuow.org)
Local news is less stressful because I feel proportionally less impotent to react to it. I recommend making this swap. I also like that they don’t save the miscellaneous news till the end of the podcast, so if for whatever reason the daily topic isn’t working for me, I already caught the headline round-up.
NY and WA governors compared on COVID (theweek.com)
That’s what basic professionalism and competence looks like — a frankly kind of boring dude who works well with others, listens to experts, and doesn’t view absolutely everything on Earth through the lens of “how can I make this about me?”...
New study documents systemic racism in Seattle restaurants (www.seattletimes.com)
I know that this kind of paired test must be really expensive and difficult to run, so it's frustrating that it's the only kind of thing that will convince Certain Types of Internet Commenters that racism wasn't solved in the 90s or whatever. Still! Nice to have a link on hand.