Morning Fizz
Discrepancies
1. Another SPD officer has been caught using excessive force—kicking and stomping a teenage suspect after the suspect raised his hands in surrender.
KIRO TV has exclusive video of the incident and identifies discrepancies between the police report and the arrest, which calls into question whether the teenager was even a legitimate suspect.
2. Does Seattle City Council Member Sally Bagshaw have a compromise solution for Seattle Center to integrate the Chihuly museum and KEXP?
Did she read this editorial—"A Two-State Solution to the Seattle Center Debate"—by David Meinert?
3. Environmental groups and a some small business owners have reacted to yesterday's news that Gov. Chris Gregoire was suspending state agencies from making new rules.
The Washington Toxics Coalition reiterated what Gregoire's office told PubliCola yesterday afternoon—the pending rules on labeling toxic toys are exempted from the order because the Department of Ecology rules were mandated as part of the initial legislation.
However, others, such as Marc Daudon of Cascadia Consulting, a green consulting firm , said, "government should never abdicate its duty to use responsible regulations to enable commerce and protect our natural resources."
Indeed, as the governor's office also told us yesterday : Updating toxic cleanup standards to meet modern science standards would not be exempted from the governor's freeze on new rulemaking.
4. More than two weeks after the general election, we still don't know the outcome in a couple of state legislative races.
In the 25th District House race, Republican challenger Hans Zeiger leads incumbent Democrat Dawn Morrell by just 36 votes---well within recount territory. And in the 41st District Senate race, Republican challenger Steve Litzow leads Democratic incumbent Randy Gordon by just 142 votes. That race will go into a recount if the margin reaches two-tenths of one percent, which is currently 117 votes.
KIRO TV has exclusive video of the incident and identifies discrepancies between the police report and the arrest, which calls into question whether the teenager was even a legitimate suspect.
2. Does Seattle City Council Member Sally Bagshaw have a compromise solution for Seattle Center to integrate the Chihuly museum and KEXP?
Did she read this editorial—"A Two-State Solution to the Seattle Center Debate"—by David Meinert?
3. Environmental groups and a some small business owners have reacted to yesterday's news that Gov. Chris Gregoire was suspending state agencies from making new rules.
The Washington Toxics Coalition reiterated what Gregoire's office told PubliCola yesterday afternoon—the pending rules on labeling toxic toys are exempted from the order because the Department of Ecology rules were mandated as part of the initial legislation.
However, others, such as Marc Daudon of Cascadia Consulting, a green consulting firm , said, "government should never abdicate its duty to use responsible regulations to enable commerce and protect our natural resources."
Indeed, as the governor's office also told us yesterday : Updating toxic cleanup standards to meet modern science standards would not be exempted from the governor's freeze on new rulemaking.
4. More than two weeks after the general election, we still don't know the outcome in a couple of state legislative races.
In the 25th District House race, Republican challenger Hans Zeiger leads incumbent Democrat Dawn Morrell by just 36 votes---well within recount territory. And in the 41st District Senate race, Republican challenger Steve Litzow leads Democratic incumbent Randy Gordon by just 142 votes. That race will go into a recount if the margin reaches two-tenths of one percent, which is currently 117 votes.
