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Melissa Hellmann wrote about local transgender activist Danni Askini's attempt to seek asylum in Sweden in order to avoid the Trump administration's transgender policies as they relate to passports and immigration. [Seattle Weekly]
A Russian asylum-seeker who was being held at the federal Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma was taken off life support two weeks after he attempted suicide. [Seattle Times]
A federal report predicted that the Pacific Northwest will continue to be seriously affected by climate change in the coming years and decades. [Seattle Times]
Several outlets wrote retrospectives on Mayor Durkan's first full year in office. [Seattle Times, Crosscut, KING 5]
The rental housing assistance pilot program that Durkan created by executive order when she first took office has kept over 200 people from becoming homeless in its first 6 months. [KUOW]
The Seattle Department of Transportation announced a new implementation plan for the money from its 2015 Move Seattle levy. [Seattle Times]
The City announced that Uber and Lyft will both be rolling out their own bikesharing platforms in Seattle soon, and ramping them up in 2019. [Capitol Hill Seattle]
A group of City elected officials including Mayor Durkan and City Attorney Pete Holmes moved forward with plans to vacate over 200 outstanding low-level arrest warrants. [SCC Insight]
Someone spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti on a West Seattle woman's house. [KING 5]
Following a turbulent period for tech stocks on Wall Street, Microsoft narrowly edged out Apple to become the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. [Seattle Times]
The City agreed to pay $75,000 in a sexual abuse lawsuit against former mayor Ed Murray by his former foster son. [KING 5]
Veteran KING 5 journalist Elisa Hahn announced her retirement, two weeks after her colleague Natalie Brand left the station to move to DC. [Twitter, Twitter]
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch looked at efforts to get Seattleites to better sort and clean our recyclables, following stricter rules from China about the quality of the recycled goods that they're willing to accept. [KUOW]
And voter turnout for the midterm election was 74.8%, higher than it has been for a midterm election in over 20 years; and statewide turnout was 71.83%, just barely below a record 71.85% that was set in 1970. [KING 5, Seattle Times]
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