Extra Extra: It's About Damn Time or It Was Bound To Happen
Olympia politicos are looking to enact changes to the state's initiative process, requiring petitioners to identify where the money affected by their proposals would come from. [Slog]
Seattle Police Department to Occupy Seattlites: You Can't Occupy Vacant (AKA "Private") Property. [Publicola]
Speaking of the SPD, the US Justice Department will release the findings of its investigation into the SPD tomorrow afternoon! [Seattle Times]
Local pianist, singer and funnyman Paul West has died of prostate cancer. [Seattle Times]
Puget Sound Energy accused of overcharging 1,600 of its customers on inappropriate disconnect fees. [Seattle PI]
Debris from the Japanese massive earthquake and tsunami that took place earlier this year is reaching Washington's shores. Flotsam "could include parts of human bodies," says a Seattle oceanographer... feet, for example. [Peninsula Daily News]
A federal TIGER grant will give $10 million to extend light rail further south into SeaTac, plus fund efforts to decrease traffic on I-5 near Joint Base Lewis-McChord. [KING]
Also in light rail: Mayor's office just let us know that Sound Transit has approved a $2 million plan to extend light rail from Downtown to Ballard, and plans to work with the city to expedite the process!
