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I think it's time to take a hike? I'm not the REI type, so you tell me, but Seattle Times says check out Marmot Pass, Big Huckleberry Mountain, Yellow Aster Butte, Green Mountain, and the Ira Spring Trail to Mason Lake if you wanna huff Washington wildflowers. Are they right? I do not know. For more flowers, consult Matt's list. "I will not run for a second term," confirmed Washington State Representative Kirsten Harris-Talley (KHT)...

The Stranger's rundown of 2022's huge, confused legislative session

Better pick up your dry cleaning. The old dry cleaning place at Olive and Harvard will be going away in a few years (there are no immediate plans to close, according to folks connected to the location), to be eventually replaced by an eight-story mass timber mixed-use building with 70 to 80 new homes and no additional parking, thank God. Sounds good so far! The developers are hosting a site walk and info session at...

A sign bridge in Lakewood collapsed after a white car hit one of its "support beams." The crash and collapse, which amazingly sent no one to heaven or hell or the hospital, evidently impressed WSDOT a great deal, because a sign bridge is "an [incredibly] heavy structure." As if this weren't complicated enough? This structure is what's called a sign bridge. It spans all lanes of I-5 and the exit. It's an incredibility heavy structure....

Rather than looking at current pedestrian counts, the city will use a newly developed set of 'pedestrian generators' to evaluate the need for new painted crosswalks.