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The Story: On July 1, the Mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkin, ordered that city's police department to clear the East Precinct and Carl Anderson Park...

The massive power of technology companies has been a hot topic among politicians. The most recent example was Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s proposed changes to how big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook do business. A panel of experts from the political, legal and technology sectors will be discussing how realistic some of these proposals are and if they’re likely to face legal challenges during News and Brews: Regulating Big Tech on March 21. If you’re looking to get away from politics, you can head over to the Living Computers Museum for an overview of how filmmaking has evolved over the last 50 years. The panel, featuring speakers from multiple corners of the film industry, will focus on a number of topics including production equipment and computer graphics imaging. Living with Tech: Moviemaking also takes place on March 21. Here are more highlights from the GeekWire Calendar: Living with Angels: A talk about best practices with angel investors at the Northwest Innovation Lab in Everett; 12 to 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 22. Populuxe Brewing 6th Anniversary Retro Game Show Night: A competition featuring retro game shows at Populuxe Brewing in Seattle; 12 to 10 p.m. Saturday, March 23. Can We Talk? For more upcoming events, check out the GeekWire Calendar, where you can find meetups, conferences, startup events, and geeky gatherings in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.

Washington may not be the biggest state in the country, but living in Seattle, it can be easy to forget that its politics are diverse. RELATED: Spokane program provides work for panhandling homeless “For those of us in Eastern Washington trying to keep track of what’s going on in the legislative process, it’s overwhelming,” Cargill told KTTH’s Saul Spady. “It takes so much time for those of us in Eastern Washington to be involved in the legislative session, when you consider the fact that we have to jump in the car and travel four, five, or six hours to Olympia if we want to go down and testify.” To that, Seattle’s own proximity to the state capital can often have those in the easternmost region of Washington feeling cut off from the conversation. “It’s just the constant kind of conveyor belt of ideas that get adopted in Seattle, and then, of course, make their way on down to Olympia, and try to get adopted statewide,” Cargill noted. The system as it exists now has anyone interested in testifying sign up for a session, go to a local college, and video conference straight in. It’s currently only available for the state Senate, though, with the state House of Representatives yet to adopt it. State issues through an Eastern Washington lens One particular issue that the two sides butt heads on is tearing down the Snake River dams to aid Puget Sound’s waning orca population. It’s really a matter of working in concert with the state’s transportation system, with our port system in Seattle. For Cargill, this sort of issue is about recognizing that what’s good for Seattle isn’t what works for our eastern neighbors. “There are many pockets of the state where you cannot adopt a Seattle policy — it just does not work economically.”

Super Bowl season is like the holidays — a celebration shared by people more accustomed to arguing than sitting down together. Meanwhile, advertisers fret that running any ads at all could be read as a statement one way or the other. It’s a normal thing to want a break from arguing. It needed recruits, and it needed a compliant public. To sports fans. A Senate investigation revealed that the military dumped tens of millions of dollars into the NFL and other leagues for PR help. “Consider the display put on at Super Bowl 50,” recalls writer Stephen Beale for The American Conservative: “A flyover by the Blue Angels fighter jets, and 50 representatives of all military branches singing ‘America the Beautiful’ against a backdrop of a giant flag.” Some even speculate that the NFL’s national anthem rules were bought by that Pentagon money. Despite this thoroughly political staging, it was only Kaepernick and his supporters who were attacked for “bringing politics” into football. (In fact, it was veteran Nate Boyer who advised Kaepernick to take a knee in the first place.) That’s no comfort to the beleaguered football fan (or their friend who just watches for the commercials).

The feeling that City Hall made up its mind how it wanted to make major land-use changes in Seattle without asking the public isn't just NIMBY paranoia. The first came when a city consultant was asked why there was little consideration of alternatives that didn’t involve broad “upzones,” the term of art for increasing the allowable heights or density limits for buildings that are being newly developed. “Upzoning is baked into the cake,” he said of the city’s plan. The end result got self-dubbed the “Grand Bargain,” as it was seen as striking a truce with powerful developers who had been threatening to sue the city over paying fees for affordable housing. It took Everett two years to pass this. In that time, developers have put some 40,000 units into the Seattle pipeline, with many of those grandfathered with no affordable-housing requirement while our process has bogged down. Here, some groups warn that if there isn’t more neighborhood input included in the final deal when the City Council inevitably passes it, then they plan to appeal it yet again, to the state growth management board. “What would have happened if the mayor had gone out to the neighborhoods and instead asked them how they could grow and make room for more housing?” That was me, writing more than three years ago, after the “Grand Bargain” was first announced. Take it from the insiders — it was always baked in the cake. The Seattle City Council is considering legislation that would make changes in 27 urban villages and some other areas while imposing new requirements on developers to help create affordable housing.

Flight data recorder, human remains found after stolen plane takes off from Sea-Tac International Airport and crashes into an island; Jeff Paul reports on what investigators hope to learn. FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated…

Video appears to show the plane that was stolen by an airline worker flying in the sky moments before it crashed in a wooded area near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

On Tuesday night, a federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order to block the release of 3-D printed gun blueprints online. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier destination for in-depth analysis of daily headlines,…

Democratic primary candidate Sarah Smith is taking on an establishment Democratic incumbent in Washington; Sarah Smith discusses her platform on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum.' FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news service dedicated to delivering breaking news…

Claire, among some of the other students involved, said they were victims of bullying themselves at one point. “It’s taking away the issues at heart and it’s making people feel bad when what really needs to be happening is we need to be making progress as a country,” said seventh grader Julia. The group, known as the DC Bully Busters, asks politicians to sign a pledge promising they won’t engage in bullying and will speak up if they witness it. Especially as a girl it’s hard to watch people who are calling people names for unnecessary reasons,” said Julia. The group writes letters to people in power. They have written 1,200 so far. They were able to get 38 members of congress to sign their anti-bullying pledge. The DC Bully Busters in Seattle already have more than a dozen kids involved and they are hoping to bring on even more young recruits. Only democrats have signed the pledge so far. Click here to get involved and learn more about the DC Bully Busters.