Tyrone Love was a party promoter and community worker, just going to the store in February, when he was shot six times and killed in what is remains an unsolved murder. He and fellow promoter Chukundi Salisbury had been supporters of the Silent War campaign, an effort to encourage citizens to turn in violent criminals, and Love's death became another example of what they had been fighting to stop. Moreover, for Salisbury his work transformed from service to his community into an effort to "bring the outrage back."

It isn't what you might expect to hear from a community organizer. It sounds harsh and negative, but Salisbury believes it's what communities need for change.

Seattle City Council candidate Peter Holmes announced today he's going to drop out of the council race to challenge two-term Seattle City Attorney Tom Carr instead.

As the former chair of the Seattle Police Department's internal investigation team, Holmes repeatedly butt heads with Carr over government transparency.

Yesterday, the Seattle City Council unanimously approved an additional $150 fee for anyone busted hiring a prostitute. The money will go to pay for a "john school," a program aimed at educating patrons of prostitutes about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and other negative consequences of engaging in the sex trade.

City Attorney Tom Carr is credited with recommending the new john school, but Councilmember Nick Licata said that he's been working on setting up a program to counsel offenders in Seattle for years and that Carr opposed the idea in 2005.

At a press conference this morning in Olympia, Gov. Chris Gregoire announced Washington's new $5 million online sex offender database to track the whereabouts of the 18,136 sex offenders living here. Well, the system actually knows the location of 13,254 convicted sex offenders, leaving 4,882 unaccounted for.