Hi folks! Please don't use fake spider web decorations as part of your Halloween display. It traps birds and they starve to death or asphyxiate. This is not the kind of horror we need for the holiday. Thank you for considering this request. Happy Halloween!

I’m trying to do the research necessary about what this entails, but all I see is no real answer and just biased opinions. Is this actually as bad as it sounds? Will this actually just give millionaires a tax break meanwhile schools suffer if I vote yes? Or am I being lied too?

A final meeting between project managers and tribe members last week wrapped up the Stillaguamish Tribe's largest project to date, restoring more than 230 acres of floodplain along two miles of the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The $15 million restoration was the first joint project between the Stillaguamish Tribe and Snohomish County, said Jason Griffith, the tribe's environmental program manager, during a tour.

"The plan is a 50-year plan, so we were under no delusions that it was going to be fast," Griffith said. "But the tribe has been consistently purchasing land the last 20 years or so with the aim of ecosystem recovery to benefit Chinook and other treaty resources."

~ That ground was a nursery, a dairy farm, a beef ranch and a golf course before it was a floodplain again. Twenty years of buying it back parcel by parcel, on a timeline nobody ran for reelection on.

I was surprised to learn that Seattle, and all of Washington State, has no state minimum age for buying kratom or 7-OH, the products sold behind the counter at a lot of gas stations and smoke shops. Some stores card anyway, but it’s up to them.

A few things I found while looking into it:

• Three bills to set the age at 21 (SB 6287, HB 2291, and SB 6196) were introduced in the 2026 session. None passed. You can look them up on the Legislature’s bill search at app.leg.wa.gov.
• 7-OH is a concentrated compound that acts on the same receptors as opioids, and it’s much stronger than plain kratom leaf. It isn’t federally scheduled yet, though the DEA started that process again this month.
• Washington has banned retail sales of nitrous oxide since June 2026 (ESHB 2532).

I’m not arguing for banning kratom for adults. I know some people use it to get off opioids, and a ban could push them toward something worse. But setting no age limit at all seems like a gap.

A few questions for Seattle folks:

1. Do the shops near you card for these products?
2. Would an age limit of 21 plus testing and labeling requirements make sense, or would it just push sales elsewhere?
3. For anyone in harm reduction or recovery: what would good regulation actually look like?

Full disclosure, I wrote a longer piece on this with all the sources linked: https://ewyattmendel.substack.com/p/the-systemic-poisoning-of-our-youth?r=8wwcsh&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Happy to answer anything here too.

The dam removal also uncovered nearly 1,100 acres of federal lands that the tribe is now getting ready to reclaim. Congress passed a bill this fall enabling the transfer. Once completed, it will nearly double the tribe's reservation.

Once approved, it will be the first time since the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe signed a treaty with the federal government in 1855 that lands have returned to it.

~ The tribe did the restoration work for decades and is only now being handed oversight of it. That order of operations says a lot.

Does anyone know what these posters are about or who put them up? I saw it today on Bainbridge Island, but I swear I remember seeing them in Seattle a while back.

Hi!

My boyfriend and I are visiting from Louisville, Kentucky right before Christmas. In Louisville, our public transit is sketchy as hell and is pretty much avoided by all who can. We were looking at renting a car, but are curious is public transit is enough to get around town and just rent a car for our day trip to the Christmas market a couple hours away.

Anyone have any thoughts that may help us out?

We will be visiting Dec 18-22

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While Nick Shirley apparently went to the wrong store, there appears to be plenty to choose from. Food stamp/SNAP benefits/EBT fraud is alive and well in the greater Seattle area.

Or who are you voting for if you live in District 5?

Hi! I have two tickets at Showbox tonight. Was going to take my kiddo but cant make it. Selling for $30 each. I can transfer tix directly to you. PM me! Thanks!

Title pretty much says it all. Been in Seattle about 5 months and I have noticed landscapers tend to leave trimmings behind? Especially with mowed lawns they just leave the grass vs raking it up?

Recently we had our property manager send someone out to trim up some weeds. Not only do I think they were super over aggressive about it but I recently figured out they just threw everything behind our fence.

Is this just a thing out here? I would think this would cause issues given how often it rains. Are residents just expected to take care of it since everyone has a green bin?

Please, before I get chastised for being unaware, I'm genuinely just curious and am open to understanding where I may be missing something.