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Had enough rain? Well too bad, here comes more! We'll get light drizzle today, and then a major storm will drench us on Friday into Saturday. We may even — and this is still a big maybe — get snow on Christmas. A weak trough will move through today with a few more inches of snow for the passes.Then our attention turns toward the next system for Fri night & Saturday. This is expected to...
Sound Transit builds very nice trains, but are they aware that people ride them? This weekend a Sound Transit train lost power in the tunnel near the U District, stranding everyone aboard and leaving hundreds of people waiting at stations. While staff scrambled to fix the electrical problem (you can listen to an operator and dispatcher’s radio comms here), nobody bothered telling all the passengers what was going on, so after a half hour in...
Guilty? Certainly not that white boy from Antioch, Illinois, but certainly all three white men who participated in the 2020 murder of a black jogger named Ahmaud Arbery. So, the "long and dirty toenails" defense did not work. I'm sure there's an America where killing a black man for showing toenails that white supremacists find offensive is totally justified, but that America, which is not impossible, did not make an appearance in the Brunswick, Georgia,...
The city of Seattle is working on a plan to create a zero-emissions zone to mitigate urban pollution and reduce carbon emissions in dense, congested parts of the city.
January 4. That’s the deadline for about 84 million private sector workers to get vaccinated, including all workers at facilities that get Medicare and Medicaid funding. The National Retail Federation say the requirement is “burdensome,” because to them adhering to regulations is more burdensome than replacing the employees they killed. That ought to do it. Alaska Air will phase out single-use plastic bottles and cups for water starting today. The airline says that’ll eliminate 1.8...