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The City Council passed new legislation requiring app-based delivery companies to get restaurants' permission before listing them in their apps. [GeekWire]
Pretty much everyone running for mayor this year is trying to position themselves as a political outsider (with the exception of Council President Lorena González, who's running on her record)--including one candidate who's currently the deputy mayor of Seattle and another who was the former City Council president and briefly actually served as mayor for a few days when Ed Murray resigned. [Seattle Times]
Local star chef Eduardo Jordan was accused in the Seattle Times by 15 women of sexual misconduct and unwanted touching, leading most of the staff at his award-winning restaurants to resign. [Seattle Times, Seattle Times]
Because of the way that unemployment benefit amounts are calculated in Washington state (they're calculated based on average wages, and most job losses last year fell on the lowest-paid workers in the state, which pushed up average wages), starting in early July the minimum amount of weekly unemployment benefit payments will increase from $201 per week to $295 per week, at the same time that a requirement that recipients of unemployment benefits have to be actively looking for work goes back into effect. [Seattle Times]
The Black mail carrier who had the police called on him by Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer in January while delivering papers on his route sued King County for $5 million. [Seattle Times, Q13 FOX]
An off-duty Seattle police officer named Alexandra Harris was killed after stopping to help on the scene of an accident on I-5 last weekend. [KIRO 7]
There have been 17 homicides so far in King County this year, 10 of them this month, vs. 24 homicides in all of 2020. [KIRO 7]
And local billionaire MacKenzie Scott gave $2.7 billion to 286 organizations (2 of which were in the Seattle region) as part of her continuing efforts to, as she put it in a Medium post announcing the contributions, "give away a fortune that was enabled by systems in need of change." [Seattle Times]
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Please enjoy this video of a bear running along Highway 410 in Mt. Rainier National Park.
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