Good morning, Blogtown! Let’s have some news:
The Overlook Neighborhood Association wrote a letter to Mayor Charlie Hales requesting the city move Hazelnut Grove, an ever-growning homeless camp on Greeley Ave. The mayor’s office says the camp can stay.
Hales is currently in Paris representing the city in a mayor’s summit on solving the world climate crisis. The delegation has come up with a draft plan for saving the world.
Reducing car emissions is one way to stem climate change. California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a non-binding agreement with several other states and countries stating a goal of making all new cars zero-emission by 2050.
Three 15-year-old kids on Black Friday wandered around Lloyd Center in balaclavas, later waving what turned out to be fake guns around. Here’s an article explaining how law enforcement kept the tense situation from becoming deadly.
Rain all weekend, guys.
Did y’all hear that women are finally allowed to fulfill all combat roles? This is great news for those who want to do it, though you can count me out. It’s also raising questions about whether women should be required to sign up for the draft.
I don’t usually cite Fox News, like ever, or even read it, but this story is too good to resist: A man named Bud Weisser was arrested for trespassing at the Budweiser Brewery in Missouri. They should have really just let him hang out.
In other inebriant news: A 73-year-old man (get it, grampa) was arrested in Seattle for attempting to snort some cocaine during a traffic stop.
In a giant fail of journalistic integrity, a couple national news stations yesterday invaded the San Bernardino shooting suspects’ apartment and flashed documents containing personal information, including photos of brown people very likely unrelated to the shooting, all over the TV screen. Right before storming the apartment, correspondent Kerry Sanders bragged about the network’s high ethical standards.
The long-awaited Star Wars movie is just days from release, to everyone’s great excitement. Please enjoy this interview with Carrie Fisher in which her dog, Gary, sits in the chair next to her with his tongue lolling about:
For those of you who click through to the story about the coke sniffing 73 year old, do yourselves a favor and watch the Seattle PD video of the stop.