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How toxic containers lost in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Seattle Parks asking to phase out its gas-powered leaf blowers, and an anti-capitalist reading of a T.S. Eliot poem all chime together on this gray day.
FDA OKs booster shots for some who got Moderna and all over 18 who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccines: If you're over 65, or if you're 18 and "at high risk of severe COVID-19, or if you have frequent institutional or occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2," then you can get the half-dose Moderna booster. The agency also says you mix things up if you want. For real. A little bit of this, a little bit...
Welcome to day 275 of January 6th. The White House just blocked an attempt by Trump lawyers to withhold documents related to the right-wing attack on the Capitol, which means that soon the National Archives will provide a House committee with texts, call logs, emails, photos and more relating to that awful day that will never end. Surely, THIS will be the scandal that undoes Trump. Surely. An alarming robbery in the U District: Just...
Sensing they were walking into a public relations nightmare, Senate Republicans have made an abrupt about-face, and have agreed with Dems to extend the debt ceiling (i.e. the government's ability to borrow money) into December—a move that may have possibly avoided a global economic emergency. (Sorry, we're not giving the GOP credit for doing what was merely "the decent thing.") Well! The Seattle Times Editorial Board and the Stranger Election Control Board agree. Vote Sarah...
This experience of walking across the bridge captured the feeling of a city whose space had been, once again, radically transformed by Link Light Rail.