Even The News Tribune is beginning to point out the many false claims made in the WEA’s new radio ad. Already one of Olympia’s biggest political spenders, the WEA is running radio ads in markets around the state to bash Republicans. You can also read through our account of the WEA’s distortions and omissions here.

Gov. Inslee’s executive decision to implement a cap and trade policy on big industrial facilities is seeing its day in court. Four natural gas utilities and eight industry groups have joined together in a lawsuit against the state, challenging the rule Inslee circumvented lawmakers to implement in 2015. The rule created caps on carbon emissions despite the original legislation being voted down multiple times in Olympia.

Sound Transit it under investigation for potentially deceiving voters. Sen. Mike Padden, Chair of the Senate Law and Justice Committee, has scheduled hearings to investigate whether the agency purposefully deceived lawmakers and voters and whether they misused public money in their successful push to pass a car tab tax for ST3.

Glen Morgan has been filing campaign-finance complaints to help hold Democrats accountable. Morgan has aided in uncovering campaign violations for many, including King County Democrats and Speaker Frank Chopp (D-Seattle). His reason behind filing the complaints is to simply keep the government honest, despite pushback from many Democrats who see the complaints as frivolous.

Bret Weinstein, biology professor at the Evergreen State College, has, “been told by the Chief of Police it’s not safe for me to be on campus.” Students have been protesting Weinstein after he opposed a proposal that would increase race as a factor in the hiring process at the school.

Garfield Eats has lost 70 percent of their business after the owner signed a contract “under distress,” that does not allow them to serve food during school lunch hours. Pressure reportedly came from union members representing school cafeteria workers at Garfield High School – the nearby school. Of course, Seattle Public Schools deny the claim, writing, “SPS wouldn’t tell a vendor to stop selling food off school grounds,” in an email to KIRO 7. 

Seattle handed out $125,000 and a job with a starting salary of $100,000 in a settlement deal with Rosalind Brazel, who was fired as Seattle Mayor Ed Murray’s press secretary in 2014. Brazel sued the city for discrimination after she was fired following a series of mistakes, including a press release mourning a former city official who was still alive.

Boeing joins Amazon in standing up for our troops and veterans, providing them jobs post-service. Director of veterans outreach for Boeing, Flo Groberg, threw the first pitch a Mariner’s game earlier this month in the annual Seattle Mariners Salute to Armed Forces baseball game and commented, “I’m particularly proud that there are more than 20,000 U.S. veterans, like me, who work for Boeing today.” Last year, Amazon committed to hiring 25,000 veterans and military spouses over the course of five years.

An additional $1 million in funding has been allocated to repair roads in Spokane. “The weather has been very hard on our streets and caused an extreme amount of damage over the last nine months or so,” Spokane’s street director, Gary Kaesemeyer said. Overall, this brings arterial maintenance construction projects for the Spokane summer to a total of 11.

A live 2.75-inch missile warhead was found in Grant County among wreckage from an F-86D Interceptor plane, which crashed in 1955. Air Force officials sent an explosive ordinance disposal team to the site.

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