Good News, Bad News

The Good News:

• Seattle's proposed aggressive panhandling bill barely passed the city council on a 5-4 vote last night, sending it to the desk of Mayor Mike McGinn to where it will, in all likelihood, be well and thoroughly vetoed.
• Seattle will take the lead nationwide in replacing its streetlights with energy efficient LED lights.
• North Bend's Mount Si High School will soon no longer be frigid, courtesy of heating tubes installed in the school's hallways.

• Seattle Schools are $6 million over budget, and that money is going to have to get cut from somewhere.
• The 'jobless recovery' continues full-speed ahead as Boeing cuts 130 jobs in Washington.
• Douglas Spinks, the man charged with running an animal sex farm in rural Whatcom County, apparently had stickers on his car "indicating he was an animal-man-love activist" when he was pulled over smuggling cocaine in 2005. Where do you even get stickers that indi... you know what, never mind. Don't want to know.