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Seattle sucks! Our friends over at FOX 13 reported that a new WalletHub study ranked Seattle as one of the worst-run U.S. cities. To make this determination, WalletHub weighed services in the country’s 150 largest cities against the total per capita budget. The study ranked Seattle number 18 in services. Not bad. But unfortunately, we cannot have good public programs in a major city without spending money! The study measured Seattle’s budget as 140th out...

Stranger reporter Will Casey on a potential Uvalde copycat stopped in Kirkland: According to charging documents from the King County Prosecutor's office, students at a Kirkland-area high school reported a classmate's Instagram story to law enforcement due to fears that he was preparing to commit a mass shooting. The student now faces two counts of Felony Harassment after confirming in direct messages to several classmates that they would "end up like those kids in Uvalde"...

Articles by Will Casey, The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper

42 years ago today, Mount St. Helens blew her wad: It may not be the most significant birthday, but I find it important to commemorate the times when Mother Nature really flexes her muscles. (I'm also realizing I wrote about this in Slog PMs past). After lying low for over a century, the mountain exploded dramatically on this day at 8:32 am. The eruption killed 57 and spewed 3.2 billion tons of ash, which eventually...

Lake Washington car-free days will expand and also contract. Today SDOT announced that they’ll be opening up Lake Washington to pedestrians on a few special weekend dates over the summer. That’s very pleasant and a definite improvement over the zero days that it’s been open over the winter; but it’s also a reduction from last year’s every-weekend openings. It’s weird that this is so limited, since a survey last year showed overwhelming support for more...