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A proposal that might end up in front of the state legislature in bill form is targeted at suckers like Seattlest, well-intentioned but busy people who would help if helping was made stupidly easy. The proposal would automatically tack on $5 to every Washington car tab fee, and that extra money would go towards keeping state parks open and maintained. Anyone could opt out of paying the extra fee. The option to give $5 for park maintenance is already in effect, but with a slight difference: you have to check a box saying you do want to give the state more of your hard-earned cash.

Up in Kenmore, a woman awoke to a giant, 15 foot sinkhole in her driveway this morning. When unusual seemingly natural phenomena occur at Seattlest HQ, our kneejerk response is to think back over our possible sins of the last 24 hours in case we managed to unknowingly aggravate the pantheon. However, in this case, it looks like the sinkhole was caused not by malicious pavement sprites but by a tunnel boring machine chipping away at the earth 150 feet below Pauline Chihara's driveway. The machine is part of King County's Brightwater sewage water treatment project. Brightwater officials are saying something about a "migrating void" and promising to investigate further, lest more upright county citizens find unpleasant pits of hell on their property as the project continues.