Biden goes on primetime: Speaking from Cross Hall, today the President gave a speech urging Congress to do fucking something and pass new gun restriction laws, according to CNN. Specifically, he called on the legislative body to reinstate the assault weapon ban that expired in 2004. He also called the GOP's twiddling on the issue "unconscionable." He went on to advocate for the repeal of liability protections for gun manufacturers following mass shootings. None of.
Are you sitting down? Because this is life-changing. H Mart (actually M2M, which is like a travel-sized H Mart, I guess; they call it their "urban convenience format") will open Friday. As an H Mart Stan, I have followed JSeattle's reporting on Capitol Hill Seattle Blawg as he keeps an ear to the ground on when we can conveniently buy soju next to the light rail station. This feels a little "end of history." How.
Welp, so much for the concrete strike: More than 300 concrete truck drivers said they'll return to work without a contract after striking for more than three months under the boot of stingy-ass, intractable bosses. Judging by the report in the Seattle Times, among other reasons it looks like the firing of workers in other industries dependent on the flow of that sweet, sweet concrete pressured the union members to hop back into their trucks..
Happy cutoff day!! Anything that wasn't a budget or that wasn't necessary to implement a budget needed to pass out of the House or Senate in Olympia today at 5 pm. I'll write more about the blood left on the floor next week, but one death jumped out at me: A bill to legalize backyard cottages statewide is done. Hard to say why at the moment, but Sen. Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island) hung a bunch.