🚲 Recall for e-bike batteries

How To Support Local Businesses This Holiday Season

If you’ve been putting off your holiday shopping, today’s podcast is a perfect listen. We asked our City Cast hosts and producers across the whole network to share expert recommendations on where to get locally-made gifts from small businesses in 13 cities. Host Jane C. Hu shared a local Seattle recommendation, and you can shop small across the U.S. with the whole City Cast list. Listen here.

• Seattle Shoppers Have Big Budgets: Shoppers in the Northeast and West are projected to outspend the national average of $1,552 per person.
• Seattle ranked No. 78 out of 558 Cities: With an average spend of $2,225, among all 558 cities across five metrics. Reports show wealthier households are driving retail growth, while lower- and middle-income consumers are stretching to keep up. [Axios]
• Jane’s Recommendation Won’t Break the Bank: A candle from Good & Well Supply Co for a hand-poured candle with a sense of place. Jane says they also have lines of National Park-themed candles and state- and city-themed candles that would make great gifts to evoke memories of your favorite vacation or your hometown. The company donates a portion of its proceeds to the National Park Foundation, Washington National Park Fund, and Black Outside — a group that advocates for diversity in the outdoors. [City Cast Seattle]

SEA Fuel Flow Restored After Two-Week Disruption ✈️

BP’s Olympic Pipeline, which supplies jet fuel to Sea-Tac, was shut down due to a spill for nearly two weeks. Now, the fuel line has been restored just in time for peak holiday travel. The pipeline has failed nine times in the last four years, according to the nonprofit Pipeline Safety Trust. This is the third spill reported this calendar year. Check with your airline for up-to-date travel alerts. [Seattle Times]

King County Certifies Election Results ✅

And the final margin of Katie Wilson’s win over Bruce Harrell will be about 2,017 votes. Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has this look at how the political battle played out in maps of Seattle and the neighborhoods around Capitol Hill and the Central District. The blog also has maps showing the borders for the other progressive victories, including a few neighbor vs. neighbor political battlefronts. [Capitol Hill Seattle Blog]

• Also, King County Executive Girmay Zahilay was sworn in yesterday during a meeting of the King County Council. He has named two members of his permanent staff: Karan Gill as Deputy Executive and Jasmin Weaver as Chief of Staff

Safety Warning for RAD Power Bikes Batteries 🚳

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has issued a product safety warning urging anyone with a Rad Power Bikes battery model HL-RP-S1304 or RP-1304 to immediately cease using it and take it to a household hazardous waste collection center. The company’s currently available model of battery is not part of the recall. Rad has refused to issue a recall or offer refunds to owners. Instead, the company is openly disagreeing with the CPSC’s determination. Here’s a list of Seattle-area locations for hazardous waste collection. [Seattle Bike Blog]

Gov. Ferguson Picks News WA State Supreme Court Justice 👩🏻‍⚖️

This is Ferguson’s first appointment to the state’s high court. Colleen Melody, who leads the civil rights division at the state attorney general’s office, will succeed Justice Mary Yu, who is retiring. In 2017, Melody helped lead Washington’s successful challenge to President Trump’s first travel ban. This year, Melody’s team won the first temporary restraining order against the second Trump Administration’s attempt to revoke birthright citizenship, protecting the constitutional rights of everyone born in this country. [Washington State Standard]

Native American Kids Less Likely To Be Offered Second Chance in WA Juvenile Court 📔

A report released this year by the Washington Center for Court Research found Native American and Black youths statewide are the least likely of their peers to be offered a path out of the justice system. White children are most likely to be offered a break. Diversion programs that offer an alternative focus on a young person’s underlying needs, such as mental health, housing instability, and trauma, but King County is set to scrap most of its existing diversion programs next year. [RANGE Media]

Full House for West Seattle Sound Transit Forum 🚄

Sound Transit managers floated their most promising options for getting the West Seattle light rail cost back in the “affordable” range for a packed room at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center. They proposed breaking the light rail into phases: build between SODO and Delridge first, extend to The Junction sometime later, or maybe even drop the Avalon station entirely. [West Seattle Blog]