Washington is still without a capital budget and the Hirst decision is still without a fix, as we enter the month of August. The Washington Policy Center has provided discussion for three ways we may continue forward: Gov. Inslee recalling lawmakers for a fourth session, leadership calling for a fourth session or a postponement of both the capital budget and a solution to the Hirst decision until 2018. (Read more here)

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Socialist Councilmember Kshama Sawant is facing a $25 million lawsuit after landlord Carl Haglund was used as a pawn in Sawant’s political game. “It’s a privacy right,” Hagland’s lawyer said. “Hagland is a private person. He’s in the real estate business… the reason we are bringing the claim against the city is because the city has chosen to use Carl Hagland, and refer to him as the ‘notorious slumlord,” which we don’t agree with… they’re using his identity to pursue their own agenda without his consent.”

“It is time for Mayor Ed Murray to resign.” Councilmember Sawant is now the second member of the Seattle City Council to call for his resignation. Murray has “fundamentally failed to deal with the accusations of sexual abuse in a responsible manner required and deserved by the people of this city, as well as sexual assault survivors everywhere.” For once, we agree with her.

Chinatown can be added to the list of approved upzones in Seattle. Developers are able to build three stories higher if they help to also create affordable housing in the city. Buildings on the National Register of Historic Places have been excluded from the upzoning.

UberEATS is coming to Spokane. The popular rideshare program begins delivery from more than 100 local restaurants today.

Passengers boarding flights from the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport have gone up 21.5% between 2015 and 2016, from 51,000 passengers to 62,000 in just one year.

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