Seattle’s police union has filed a complaint against Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s body cam executive order. “This executive order, which was prepared in consultation with Seattle City Attorney Peter Holmes, is unprecedented and a clear violation of state law,” read the statement from the Seattle Police Officer’s Guild. “SPOG is not opposed to body cameras… SPOG is opposed to the mayor disregarding the state bargaining laws and misleading both the public and the federal court by insinuating that this has been negotiated ‘round and round’.”

“The signal synchronization that SDOT swears is working, is woefully ineffective,” Jason Rantz wrote. Rantz explainined the inadequacies found in Seattle’s regulations to control traffic downtown. “The city traffic engineer, Dongho Chang, does not drive and, consequently, doesn’t understand the driving experience. But they don’t want to understand it. They want you out of your cars so they have no incentive to make conditions better.” (Read more here) 

Paine Field has been granted $12 million to relocate part of a taxiway in order to improve safety, among other changes. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation will be issuing the money soon in order to use the summer to complete the infrastructure changes before winter.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver recently said, “Seattle will no doubt be on a short list of cities we look at,” when considering expansion of the NBA through the growth of franchises.

The Olympic National Park is deciding on a plan to remove mountain goats from the park, weighing options of relocation against putting many of the animals down because of the environmental and safety problems the non-native mountain goats bring to the park.

Paul Schneider resigned from the Spokane School Board yesterday, following accusations of him hitting a bicyclist before fleeing the scene while driving drunk last month. “While my strong commitment to serving the students, families and educators in Spokane Schools remains unwavering, I do not wish my continued service on the board to distract from the important work of serving kids and their families,” Schneider said in his resignation letter to the board.

Whitman County residents have sent a letter to the WA Secretary of State requesting oversight for Auditor Eunice Coker’s office, explaining that this is the third consecutive year problems have plagued the City Council elections. “We have a serious issue with an auditor’s office that seems unable to run an election,” former Pullman School Board director candidate Elizabeth Siler wrote in the letter.

Spokane City Council voted to move a proposal regarding fining coal and oil train passage through downtown to the ballot on Monday during a meeting. City Councilmember Mike Fagan has already said, “this is going to be a train wreck,” of the legal challenges he expects to come from the ballot measure.

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