Slog AM: Chinook Nation Rally, a Lacking Bike Thriller, and Juicy Neighborhood Gossip

“That is loads of dying.” What’s happening at Seattle’s jail? There have been five deaths by suicide to date this yr, a degree that far outstrips the nationwide common. Incarceration has been steadily rising over the past yr, and consultants suppose potential elements embrace isolation in some instances, crowding in others, and psychological trauma.

One other day, one other mass capturing. A gunman in Bend, Oregon killed two and injured three at a shopping center. After a big police response, the shooter was discovered useless from a gunshot wound.

Chinook Indian Nation will host a rally as we speak on the Federal Constructing. The tribe gained federal recognition in 2001, however then the Bush administration revoked that recognition and declared that the tribe doesn’t exist. Members have spent the final twenty years attempting to get the federal authorities to reverse that reversal, and as we speak they’ll rally at 1st Ave and Madison at 11:30 am, asking Congress to introduce laws to revive their recognition. It’ll be streamed live on Facebook here.

Some of the biggest: The Vantage Freeway hearth (round 30,000 acres in Kittitas County), Cow Canyon in Yakima County (4,878 acres), and the Mohr wildfire in Douglas County. The US Forest Service has 12 crews out battling fires on Forest Service land. Air quality around Seattle seems to be prefer it’ll keep fairly clear this week, although the identical can’t be mentioned for the japanese a part of the state.

Simply pathetic. I at all times get complaints once I confer with Seattle’s waterfront challenge as a failure, however, come on, simply seems to be at the way it compares. Sure, sure, I do know it’s nonetheless underneath building. However this multi-lane freeway received’t look any nicer when it’s executed. We actually coulda had one thing good right here. Oh properly.

vancouvers waterfront vs seattles

we’ve no imaginative and prescient pic.twitter.com/LsFZKXwe9z

— Pushing The Needle (@pushtheneedle) August 27, 2022

Don’t eat the rabioli. Should you’re going for a hike and are available throughout a tasty-looking fishmeal pouch within the forest, please don’t take a chew. It accommodates a rabies vaccine and was dropped by the USDA in an try to cut back infections amongst raccoons.

Good riddance, however in all probability solely briefly. Twitter gave a short lived suspension to Libs of TikTok this weekend. The transfer comes after the fitting wing troll account targeted yet another hospital for having the temerity to offer medical care to trans youth.

Lastly, some excellent news. Nebraskan Duane Hansen has set a new world record for the longest river journey undertaken in a large hollowed-out pumpkin–38 miles.

Who took these bikes? We’ve received a little bit of a thriller on our fingers right here: Somebody’s gone and scraped up bike markings off the highway in Rainier Valley. I’m giving SDOT the good thing about the doubt and never leaping to the obvious conclusion, which is that it’s their fault, but it surely’s arduous to think about whose else it might be. I’ve received an e-mail out to the comms group and can let you realize once I hear one thing again.

#Seabikes any cause why the Rainier Valley greenway markings have been scraped off south of Henderson? And possibly even this velocity bump is getting eliminated? It is the one non-Rainier/arterial path to the library & there’s already no sidewalks right here. pic.twitter.com/yYixXd6EbA

— Anna Zivarts (@AnnaZivarts) August 27, 2022

Now open in Tacoma: Even larger visitors jams. WSDOT accomplished its freeway growth slightly forward of schedule in Tacoma on Friday and re-striped this weekend–a twenty-two-year (!) and 1.4-billion-dollar (!!) challenge that provides new HOV lanes and widens different roads for vehicles. The good thing about HOV lanes is pretty dubious, according to studies. It’s not all unhealthy information, although. The company can also be performing some habitat restoration, which is a bit like constructing a doghouse within the yard of a house you simply set on hearth.

Humorous what’s thought of “large cash” when it’s for something aside from vehicles. That one single HOV challenge price $1.4 billion, barely greater than what the state put aside for lively transportation tasks over the following sixteen years (!!!). Nonetheless, that’s far more than has been obtainable up to now, and because of a streamlined grant course of even small towns are beginning to ask for cash for pedestrian and bike tasks. In fact, ped infrastructure is good, but it surely additionally wants housing reform (particularly, eliminating exclusionary zoning) to actually get folks out of their vehicles. Who’s going to make use of these model new sidewalks when every thing is simply too far to stroll to?

Oh, that’s juicy. Please take pleasure in these two enjoyable items of native drama: First, the urbanist-advocate who goes by Pushing the Needle got ahold of a memo stating the rationale the Design Assessment Board rejected the appliance from the individual behind the account. The very best half is that as a result of they wrote the doc in Phrase, the edit historical past is seen, so PtN can see precisely who wrote what. Drama #2 occurred between members of the Thornton Creek Alliance; one is pushing for the Metropolis to accommodate extra development, and the opposite lives in a fantasy world the place the town’s inhabitants may shrink … and in addition appears to be unaware of her group’s personal membership.

Talking of juicy … Someone please get one in all these and let me understand how it’s.

Y’all I discovered them, the viral peach ice lotions. $13 for 3 however in all equity, I wouldn’t complain if this was the dessert at a Michelin Star restaurant. 10/10. Btw, Asian Household Market on 99 in Seattle. 🍑 🍨 pic.twitter.com/RlWLjNCLtJ

— Amy Bonaduce (@AmyBonaduce) August 27, 2022