~Weekend Reading~
In case you haven’t already embarked on a long, cold journey to visit your family or someone else’s family or an extended vacation because you are your own family—or maybe you have and just need some stuff to read while you’re traveling—here are some great pieces from around the city:
Fathi Karshie gives a much-needed rundown about why some immigrant communities in Seattle have trouble trusting the local government at the Seattle Globalist.
Shelf Awareness checks in on the Amazon brick-and-mortar bookstore and the how this might be yet another chapter in their shitty relationship with small publishers. (h/t Seattle Review of Books)
Seattle Transit Blog runs down SDOT’s plans to improve RapidRide. They’re referring to it as RapidRide+, eschewing such fine options as RapiderRide and Just Give Me a Bus That Goes to My House, Please God, I Just Want a Commute That Does Not Take an Hour.
In case you missed South Seattle Emerald’s profile of Islamic School principal Aishah Bomani on Monday, you should read that now.