Bruce Harrell will not remain Mayor of Seattle so that he can remain on the city council as a representative of district 2. “There are issues on the council that require my leadership. There are issues with District 2 that need me. That’s my home,” he said. The Seattle City Council now has 25 days to choose a mayor to serve until the November election.

“There’s no getting around the fact that safe injection sites, sort of, normalize heroin addiction,” former Attorney General Rob McKenna said in an interview with KIRO recently. Liberals continue to advocate for safe injection sites, suggesting that they are a solution to the rising heroin epidemic in the Puget Sound area. An initiative to ban the sites will be on the February ballot for voters to decide on the matter themselves.

Parking stalls at the Sound Transit park-and-ride station in Kent are averaging out to $100,000 a space and the agency is estimating it will cost closer to $65 million – rather than the $35 million that Sound Transit first projected costs to be. Under-estimating costs is one of Sound Transit’s specialties.

The professor at the center of Evergreen State College’s protests has resigned and will be receiving $500,000 in the settlement agreement he signed with the college. Bret Weinstein and his wife, also a professor at the school, filed a $3.85 million claim against the school for failing to “protect its employees from repeated provocative and corrosive verbal and written hostility based on race, as well as threats of physical violence.”

Eagle Scout Wesley Lawson helped bring a playground for special needs students to Lake Stevens Middle School by designing the project and working with local businesses.

The Yakima City Council will consider the expansion of the Downtown Yakima Business Improvement District this week. Created in 2008, the district pays for day-to-day maintenance downtown, and creates city truck routes.

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