Travel today in the Northern #Cascades:

- Bluett Pass: snow tires or chains required
- Snoqualmie Pass: snow tires or chains advised, oversized vehicles prohibited
- Stevens Pass: same as Snoqualmie
- White Pass: same as Snoqualmie

Travel advisory: strong winds and snow accumulation up to 8", don't go unless you have to.

I'm super lucky that there's a route from Ellensburg to Wenatchee that is *not* Bluett.
Vantage and the Columbia River gorge here I come

#weather #WashingtonState

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz relocates to Florida as Washington state advances 9.9% millionaire tax on income exceeding $1 million, joining wealthy exodus from high-tax states including California's billionaire levy
#YonhapInfomax #HowardSchultz #MillionaireTax #WashingtonState #WealthTax #FloridaExodus #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=109597

Hi, these are usually the weekly #washingtonstate #kingcounty (that is, #seattle and environs) #COVID #COVID19 #wastewater toots. But not today: the data for the wastewater section of the state's respiratory illness dashboard didn't get updated today. So no poop graph screencapping tonight, sorry.

Relatedly, when I went to the site it loaded up a user survey. I'm pretty allergic to those things, but in this case I took the time to let the Department of Health how much I appreciate their public communications work, like the dashboard. I know the state budget is tight and they're trying hard to pick up the slack from the epic federal government clusterfuck, so it's good to show state-level public health folks some love. If you value the work they do, you might want to hop over there and fill out the user survey as well.

The dashboard is at https://doh.wa.gov/data-and-statistical-reports/diseases-and-chronic-conditions/communicable-disease-surveillance-data/respiratory-illness-data-dashboard#WasteWater. And the Department of Health is here on the fediweb, at @WADeptHealth

They lie down a road seldom traveled, but it's perhaps the most beautiful grassland in the world: the Palouse Hills. When the fields bloom and the long, warm days of summer hit them just right, it does something for the soul...

"Rolling Dreams", captured by yours truly.

#art #photography #landscape #beautifullandscape #Palouse #PacificNorthwest #AmericanWest #WashingtonState #Northwest #grassland #prairie #fields

WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-income-tax-passes-house-after-24-hour-debate/

#HackerNews #WAincomeTax #HouseDebate #Politics #WashingtonState #TaxReform

37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/10/37000-fake-ai-comments-mysteriously-oppose-washington-states-effort-to-tax-the-rich/

Artworks Are Hidden Until it Rains in Seattle–Now it’s Sold Around the World

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/artworks-are-hidden-until-it-rains-in-seattle-now-its-sold-around-the-world/

Always filled with nature. That’s Washington state.

#washingtonstate #pnw #nature #nationalparks #travel

Wife Used ‘Find My iPhone’ to Locate Husband Buried in an Avalanche for Over 4 Hours

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/wife-used-find-my-iphone-to-locate-husband-buried-in-an-avalanche-for-over-4-hours/

Hey #WashingtonState and especially those in #WhatcomCounty: Call the legislative hotline today at 800-562-6000 in support of SB 6346, the Millionaires Tax. It has passed the Senate, but now needs a vote in the state House and Representative Alicia Rule of the 42nd district needs to hear we support it. Call today!

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/04/holdout-democrats-leave-wa-house-support-for-income-tax-in-doubt/

#wapoli #waleg #BellinghamWA