September 2007

Two bills passed by the Seattle City Council last month to reduce overcrowding and violence around nightclubs did not earn Mayor Greg Nickels approval and the legislation was returned unsigned.

The council is currently working on a proposal that would require nightclubs to obtain a nightlife license in order to operate. A vote is expected toward the middle of the month.

The two bills support funding a nightlife enforcement team that could issue fines and respond to resident complaints and allows the city to penalize businesses that continually exceed occupancy limits.

After the big Interstate 5 construction project, King County Metro Transit reported record ridership on buses, vanpools, and the Elliott Bay water taxi during August.

"Over (those) two weeks, ridership on all of the services Metro provides increased by about 1,000 passengers each morning," said King County Executive Ron Sims.

Confronted by her employer about missing funds from her grocery till (nearly $10,000 in the last eight months), a local woman confessed that she had, indeed, taken several hundred dollars a week. She was booked into King County Jail for investigation of theft.

A man was moving his elderly mom from one residence to another and offered a stranger on 16th SW $100 to help. When they got to the new residence with the items, the man and his mom decided to take a nap while the helper and his girlfriend were supposed to unload the truck.