Jenny Durkan, mayoral candidate for Seattle, wants to provide free college to Seattle students if she is elected mayor. “At the end of the day, it will be the exception that kids don’t start a program for college. It is a necessary road to success,” she said of the plan – which she claims will cost $4.3 to $5 million in the first year but $7 million every year following.

Safeco Field and CenturyLink are banning straws in September as a part of a national campaign led by the Lonely Whale Foundation. If fans want a straw, the option available will be an Aardvark paper straw.

Walla Walla’s school board will vote on a budget of $81 million tomorrow night for the upcoming school year – an increase of $3 million over last year’s budget. “The Board decided it wanted to put money into meeting the social and emotional needs of students,” executive director of business services for the district, Ted Cohan, said.

Spokane has received $5 million in federal grants to rebuild streets and intends on smoothing over 14.49 miles of road over the next two years with the money in combination with $2 million the city has already raised through bonds. “These projects will be completed by private sector contractors, so that means the work will be in addition to the maintenance projects our streets department already has plans for in these years,” Mayor David Condon said.

The City of Spokane is educating landlords on a new law that does not allow them to consider income sources before deciding whether or not to lease their property to a tenant. The new law will prohibit landlords from using blanket policies that ban renters using housing vouchers for paying their rent. It goes into effect on September 1^st.

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