Is Washington’s potential pay-by-mile scheme officially dead? There was a smash-and-grab at Shawn Kemp’s cannabis shop in Seattle. Bruce Harrell made a joke about the Sonics returning during his State of the City speech, and it wasn’t received very well. // Protesters at University of Washington expressed their outrage over the Trump Administration’s freezing of federal funds for research. // A former federal employee says it’s almost impossible for government workers to get fired.