Seattle’s rich people fucked themselves over for decades, and now you have to pay for it: With city funding, a number of Seattle’s wealthier white communities buried their power lines under the sidewalk decades ago so they could look more like the suburbs. They did a bad job of it, and now the power cables break so often that Seattle is becoming known for bad power outages, and taxpayers are on the hook to dig everything up and fix it, the Seattle Times reports.
Tacoma legislative candidate charged with DUI after, you guessed it: As Washington Democrats take a greater and greater share of seats from the state’s collapsing Republican Party, they also absorb a greater share of the political class’ DUIs. Krista Perez announced her candidacy for the House Drunk Driver’s Caucus last week after, authorities say, the progressive challenger crashed her pickup truck, admitted she had been drinking, and refused a breathalyzer test. She’s running to unseat incumbent Rep. Melanie Morgan, a fellow Democrat, from her Tacoma seat in the 29th District, the Tacoma News Tribune reports.
They finally dynamited the stupid fucking old building in Portland blocking Amtrak to Seattle: …