The sly movin' Parks Department decided to remove nearly 400 trash cans from city parks. Hoping to save $160,000, they encouraged park-goers to embrace a "pack in-pack out" policy. Now they are considering the use of $4,000 solar-powered compacting trash cans that don't need to be emptied as often, alleviating the cost of constantly taking out the trash. more ›

Christopher Harris is in a coma and on life support after being chased by two King County Sheriff's Department deputies, says the Seattle Times: "He suffered life-threatening skull fractures when his head struck a concrete wall as one attempted to arrest him early Sunday in Belltown." To be precise, his head had some help in striking that wall. A video is said to show one of the deputies smashing into Harris after he halted--having run as two men started shouting and heading toward him from out of a dark alley. We're not sure if the online P-I will append this to their "Conduct Unbecoming" series, exposing a troubling history of brutality in the King County Sheriff's Department, but it feels like nearly killing an innocent person should raise some questions on how the Sheriff's Dept. is doing on all that reform we were promised. more ›