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Hey, good morning. It's Jeannie Yandel. It's Friday. This is Seattle now. This week, the Seattle City Council's inexperience is showing as they head into their summer recess.

Keep your eyes on the walls.

Murals are popping up all over Seattle's downtown core.

And you know those piles of free stuff that people in your neighborhood leave out on the sidewalk?

In Seattle, one person's dirty flannel blanket is another person's treasure.

Ticket editor Chase Burns and needling editor-in-chief Lex Vaughn are here to break down the week.

But first, let's get you caught up.

Seattle's uncommitted movement is joining in on a nationwide protest before next week's Democratic National Convention.

Protesters will meet on Sunday at Cal Anderson Park to demand that the Harris Walls campaign

listen to voters who support a ceasefire and an arms embargo on Israel.

Washington voted to send two uncommitted delegates to the DNC during the presidential primary back in March.

The Washington State Department of Transportation will break ground today on the $1.4 billion

Portage Bay Bridge and Roanoke Lid Project.

The goal is to build two new parallel bridges between Redmond and Seattle that will hold

up against seismic events

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