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The NHL's executive committee recommended that the full NHL board approve an expansion team for Seattle at the league's next board meeting in December. [Seattle Times]
Josh Kelety looked at County Executive Dow Constantine's budget (which was released on September 27th) in greater detail. [Seattle Weekly]
Constantine nominated Anita Khandelwal, who's been an outspoken opponent of the county's new Children and Family Justice Center (aka "youth jail"), to be the Director of King County's Department of Public Defense. [Crosscut]
He also announced a change to the county's police inquest process, to include an investigation of whether officers acted appropriately. [Crosscut]
The City Council confirmed Mayor Durkan's pick for a new CEO of Seattle City Light, Debra Smith, the former general manager of a public utility in Oregon. [Seattle Times]
Washington state is considering raising the pay threshold above which salaried workers don't qualify for overtime, from 1.5x minimum wage (currently about $37,000/year) to 3x minimum wage (roughly $75,000/year). [Washington State Wire]
11% of Seattle workers who make more than $75,000 per year took transit to get to work last year, vs. 10% of workers who made less than $35,000. [Seattle Times]
The City Council passed an ordinance that will require companies with 20 or more employees to allow their workers to purchase transit passes with pre-tax dollars, which could save those workers hundreds of dollars per year. [Seattle Times]
David Gutman looked at Seattle's resistance to giving in to the wave of free-floating electric scooter sharing companies that are catching on in other cities. [Seattle Times]
SPD announced a way for people who feel they may be at risk of a "swatting" attack to add a note to their file about it so that 911 dispatchers will see it when they pull up their address. [GeekWire]
The mountains in our local national parks are heating up due to climate change twice as fast as the rest of the country. [Crosscut]
Hundreds of people gathered on Friday to protest Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. [KUOW]
Light rail trains were slowed down temporarily on Wednesday after minor cracks were found in the rails south of Rainier Beach. [KING 5]
And Mike Lindblom looked at the herculean effort that's going to be required to demolish the viaduct in a timely manner after the tunnel opens to the public early next year. [Seattle Times]
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