It's 2015, and some local small businesses are in an "Internet Dead Zone." The city's response, under Mayor Ed Murray? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ asharkyu/Shutterstock
Council Members Debate Municipal Broadband Pilot Project: "The Seattle City Council is debating behind closed doors this week over whether to move forward with a pilot program that would bring municipal broadband to part of the city’s North Beacon Hill neighborhood," GeekWire reports. If you'd like to counteract Mayor Ed Murray's lobbying against the project, Upgrade Seattle has an action alert to contact council members in support of the project right here. The town of Sandy, Oregon deliberately went into debt to build its own broadband utility; subscription rates have far exceeded projections there. If Sandy can do it, why can't we?
Lisa Herbold Is Trailing Shannon Braddock in West Seattle Council Race By Only Six Votes: Heidi has the lowdown.
The Gum Wall Is No More: For now, anyway. KUOW reports that crews began a three-day cleaning process yesterday using steam-cleaners. The folks who run Pike Place Market want to keep the gum and weigh it, and they expect people to repopulate the wall with new gum. Ugh.
Fruitless Investigation Into Test Scores at Beacon Hill School: "A lengthy investigation into who altered Beacon Hill International School students' answers on standardized tests has come up empty," KPLU reports.
That's essentially the message from a Capitol Hill landlord to the tenants she's raising rents on. ClaudiaK/Shutterstock
Capitol Hill Landlord Raises Rents, Tells Residents to Move to Shoreline: "You have that opportunity to go out to Shoreline and other areas. The transit system is awesome in Seattle," says Julie Medina, a regional manager at Stratford, which recently purchased and hiked rents at The Celeste. "Lake Forest Park, you’re 15 minutes from downtown on a bus." I'm going to hazard a guess that Medina doesn't actually use our "awesome" transit system.
King County Council Offers Homeless More Winter Shelter Beds: 150 more beds, Seattlish reports. "66 people have died outside in King County this year; 48 in Seattle proper. "
UW Launches Tech Degree Partnership With "the MIT of China": "The idea is for students to design a technology and then see how it does in a global market," KPLU reports. "The interdisciplinary degree puts students and faculty on the ground in both Washington and Beijing."
Another Republican Debate Happened Last Night: Donald Trump was racist, Ben Carson made up things, and Matt Baume live-blogged the whole thing. He will never get those hours of his life back.
Could Tim Eyman's Latest Initiative Force the Legislature to Finally Pass Progressive Tax Measures? Jeff Reifman thinks so. "Tim Eyman may have accidentally done us all a favor," he says. I'm skeptical, and so is State Representative Reuven Carlyle, the Democratic chair of the House Finance Committee.
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