Climate: Anticipate a pleasing day with a excessive of 75, a lightweight breeze, and clouds clearing out all through the day. It’ll be good strolling climate all week with the attainable exception of Saturday, which carries a 30% probability of thunderstorms, in keeping with forecasts from the Nationwide Climate Service.
Metropolis of Olympia will not arrest over shrooms: In keeping with KING 5, metropolis funds and assets received’t go towards busting, investigating, or prosecuting individuals in possession of (or excessive on) psilocybin mushrooms and different psychedelic vegetation and fungi below a decision unanimously authorised by Olympia’s metropolis council, considerably reducing the chance of dangerous journeys in our state capitol. In keeping with Olympia Police, it hadn’t been a lot of a precedence anyway, as they haven’t arrested anybody for shrooms within the final 5 years.
Olympia, Washington Metropolis Council unanimously voted to decriminalize psilocybin (and different entheogens) to lowest precedence of regulation enforcement. Additionally they requested the state and federal authorities to concentrate and do the identical.
Thanks Olympia Metropolis Council for recognizing this… pic.twitter.com/hdxz19nHYs
— Paul Stamets (@PaulStamets) August 14, 2024
Sorry: South Lake Union’s streetcars are shut down indefinitely as a result of mechanics don’t have the elements from abroad to repair {an electrical} downside. King County Metro suspended service on Friday after an outage lower energy between the electrical substations and the catenary wires that energy the automobiles. As of June, a median of 494 individuals per week rode the 1.3 mile-long SLU line. Officers say it’ll take a number of weeks to repair the issue, which would not have been an issue in the event that they’d had substitute elements available.
King County Metro says it may well’t get the fitting elements from abroad to repair {an electrical} breakdown. https://t.co/IrHA1B7WhV
— The Seattle Instances (@seattletimes) August 14, 2024
Starbucks CEO out: Starbucks’s Laxman Narasimhan is stepping down and Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol is taking his job. Narasimhan’s Tuesday resignation is efficient instantly, and it comes after one more feeble monetary quarter. Together with his historical past of union hostility at Chipotle, Niccol is bound to suit proper in.
In 2022, Chipotle shuttered a retailer in Maine quickly after its staff petitioned to kind the corporate’s first union.
The NLRB dominated the closure was unlawful union-busting.
This is Niccol after a Michigan retailer efficiently unionized later that 12 months:https://t.co/jSQUlzAGsZ
— Extra Good Union (@MorePerfectUS) August 13, 2024
Poll dropppp: Democrat Dave Upthegrove remains to be preventing for second place in a good race for Washington’s Public Lands Commissioner. He’s solely 5,400 votes forward of MAGA Republican Sue Kuehl Pederson and 17,000 votes behind the clear frontrunner, former Republican Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler. In Seattle, Alexis Mercedes Rinck held agency with simply above 50% of the vote in her metropolis council race towards never-elected incumbent Tanya Woo, who’s sitting 12 factors behind Rinck at 38%. To cite Woo’s marketing campaign supervisor on election evening: “brutal.”
Doctor’s assistant disciplined for allegedly failing to deal with inmates: A doctor’s assistant in japanese Washington voluntarily surrendered his license after the state accused him of failing to deal with inmates with life-threatening and continual situations dwelling on the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla. Richard T. Oliver allegedly left cancerous pores and skin lesions untreated, allowed for diabetic inmates’ blood sugars to rise precipitously over months, and didn’t correctly look at an inmate complaining of shortness of breath who was later rushed to the hospital with a slowed coronary heart and attainable coronary heart assault.
Hamas received’t attend Thursday peace talks: A Hamas consultant in Lebanon stated attending would carry them again to “sq. one.” He accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of desirous to lengthen the battle and evade any settlement that “ends the aggression fully.” Whereas Netanyahu has denied this, he has added new situations to Israel’s calls for that his personal negotiators worry as obstacles to peace. Nonetheless, officers briefed on the talks instructed the New York Instances that Hamas would nonetheless interact with mediators if Israel put forth a critical response to their final supply in July.
The US authorised a $20 billion arms sale to Israel: Simply in time for the ceasefire talks, the sale included superior air-to-air missiles and Boeing fighter jets, to be delivered in installments between 2026 and 2029. In an announcement, the State Division affirmed the US’s dedication to the safety of Israel.
The squad lives on: The Related Press referred to as the first race in Minnesota fifth Congressional District for incumbent Ilhan Omar, a vocal critic of Israel’s battle in Gaza and a member of the left-leaning “squad” within the Home. Different members of the squad, Rep. Jamaal Brown of New York and Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri, misplaced their primaries this summer season after pro-Israel teams dumped hundreds of thousands on their races in order that they’d lose. Not like these contests, Omar’s race didn’t see a lot spending from outdoors the district.
I’m honored that my group voted to *ship me again to Congress*. Tonight’s victory exhibits that the Fifth District believes within the collective values we’re preventing for in Washington. pic.twitter.com/DwcRVI55fQ
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) August 14, 2024
Ohio police officer indicted for killing Black girl: Final August, Blendon Township police officer Connor Grubb shot the pregnant 21-year-old Ta’Kiya Younger via her automobile windshield, killing her and her unborn little one as a result of he’d suspected her of shoplifting. Almost a 12 months later, on Tuesday a Franklin County grand jury indicted him on fees of homicide, involuntary manslaughter, and felonious assault. The courtroom scheduled his arraignment for Wednesday.
Japan’s prime minister will step down: Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida introduced at a information convention that he wouldn’t run to steer the Liberal Democratic Social gathering (LDP) subsequent month. Kishida was by no means fashionable, and scandal has rocked his workplace since he took energy in October 2021, together with revelations concerning the LDP’s ties to a church that many dwelling in Japan regard as a cult and a slush fund of donations omitted from get together information.
