With a 8-1 vote Tuesday, the Seattle City Council approved a new police union contract that provides a 23% pay bump. The contract covers 2021-2023. City is still in negotiations for a 2024 and beyond contract. New Cascade PBS Newsroom crosscut.com/politics/2024/…

Even when it deems businesses 'severe violators' of workplace safety regulations, the Department of Labor and Industries rarely makes follow-up inspections absent further complaints, reports Lizz Giordano. crosscut.com/investigations…

AI is going great

I think AP style is 'Bobs Ferguson', actually.

Google is already pretty unusable with the majority of results just directing you to commerce links rather than the actual information.
AI programs are still regularly making up facts out of thin air. This is a disastrous development for an already woefully un/misinformed public

Here is 35 unedited minutes showing thousands of MAGA walking out on Trump while he’s still talking.

Several hundred showed up for a 'March for Israel' Sunday at UW. It was the largest counter demonstration at UW since students established their “Popular University for Gaza” encampment in early May. Story from Scarlet Hansen crosscut.com/news/2024/05/d…

M. Scott Brauer and Mai P. Hoang (Also at: maiphoang.bsky.social) recently spent time with a group of Team Rubicon volunteers as they cleared trees, branches and other fire fuel to help mitigate future wildfires around Kennewick, WA. crosscut.com/environment/20…

LISTEN: Carly Rosenthal speaks to Haaretz Podcast on an alternative memorial ceremony which allows 'Israelis and Palestinians to mourn together, to grieve for their loved ones that they've lost throughout the conflict'
haaretz.com/israel-news/po…

Pro-Israel march organizers on Red Square have indicated they intend to begin marching again in 5-10 minutes.

An AP photographer covers the migrant crisis at the border with sensitivity and compassion apnews.com/article/photog…

Story on a tense Tuesday night at UW by Scarlet Hansen, photos by me: crosscut.com/news/2024/05/t…

.Paris Jackson sat down with Mayor Harrell last week for an interview that touched on downtown, homelessness and SPD culture. crosscut.com/politics/2024/…

THE question, via John Harwood

'Long as I've been a reporter, maintaining neutrality while covering politicians has been journalists' mandate. But 2024 presents a different issue: Should reporters also be neutral about the fate of American democracy?' zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran…

‘The Garden of Time’ story is about a wealthy couple with a beautiful garden in a dystopian landscape where the man must cut a flower to keep the ‘masses’ from taking over his estate. Each cut sends the hoards further away, but slowly all his flowers have been cut and die…