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John Creighton Is Officially Done: That^ is John Creighton, the longest serving current Seattle port commissioner. Creighton defended allowing Shell to lease space in the port for Arctic drilling equipment (after taking money from business interests linked to the lease) and was accused of stalking an ex-girlfriend. Now, he's lost his seat to an environmentally friendly upstart. Challenger Ryan Calkins now leads Creighton by more votes than are left to count. "I feel like after seven months of campaigning on environmental justice and transparency in government and fairness in the economy, I think that message really resonated," Calkins told the Seattle Times.

Church in Northeast Seattle Will Demolish Homeless Housing, Replace with Parking Spots: The Seattle Times' Project Homeless reports on the University Unitarian Church, where the church property is also home to three cottages that house 10 formerly homeless people. "The demolition of the cottages will affect only 10 people," the Times' Scott Greenstone writes. "But in a city experiencing a homelessness crisis, where affordable housing is melting away and where finding landlords willing to rent to people like [resident Brendi] London feels, to some social workers, harder by the day, every unit counts." Church leaders say the "culture of social justice at UUC leans more towards advocacy than direct action."

Surprise, It's Domestic Violence: The Associated Press: "The gunman behind a rampage in Northern California was out on bail charged with stabbing a neighbor, others had complained about him firing hundreds of rounds from his house, and he had been the subject of a domestic violence call the day before the attack." NPR: "While perpetrators of domestic violence account for only about 10 percent of all gun violence, they accounted for 54 percent of mass shootings between 2009 and 2016, according to the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety."

Five Months Later, Jessyn Farrell Changes Her Tune about Ed Murray: In June, after one of Murray's accusers dropped his lawsuit alleging Murray sexually abused him and pledged to refile later, Farrell, then running for mayor, said her "heart goes out" to Murray. Farrell, who sought Murray's endorsement of her campaign, also said Seattleites "must reject the politics of personal destruction." Last night, she apologized:


Sydney Brownstone on Matt Hickey: “In the absence of justice rendered by the criminal justice system, I think journalists have the responsibility to hear what these survivors have to say,” Brownstone told Northwest Public Radio.

It's a Healthcare Bill Too: Republicans are now including a repeal of the Obamacare mandate in their tax bill, the New York Times reports. Getting rid of the mandate and the subsidies that go along with it would save $300 billion but result in 13 million fewer insured people in the next decade, according to the Times.

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1,628: That's the number of "false or misleading" claims the president has made in 298 days, according to the Washington Post.

Somebody Has Got to Fucking Go: From the Democratic field in the 8th Congressional District if Dems want any hope of beating Dino Rossi, writes Rich Smith. "Though he is extremely entertaining to me on a personal level, Tom Cramer is wasting everybody's time. Again he showed up to the forum 30 minutes late in blue jeans and a blazer with his now iconic homespun name tag pinned to his lapel. In previous posts I've described him as 'the Bernie Sanders' of the race, but he has since proven himself to be an insufferable windbag."

The Head Tax on Big Businesses Is Dead: For now, after a 5-4 city council vote yesterday.

Kent School IT Worker Arrested for Alleged Voyeurism After iPod Found Taped to Urinal: A 24-year-old intern in the school district's IT department admitted to taking videos for sexual gratification and said he targeted one middle school student, KOMO reports.

Washington Juries May Not Have to Know Someones Immigration Status: The state Supreme Court has approved a new rule to make evidence involving someone's immigration status inadmissible without a compelling reason, the Seattle Times reports.