Watch your e-cigs: Governor Jay Inslee has proposed a capital gains tax, a cigarette tax increase, and an e-cigarette tax. Combined with yesterday's proposed cap-and-trade program, the governor says his plan would bring in $1.4 billion in new revenue. Actually getting any of this done in Olympia is another story.

Should we quit the tunnel? A new petition on Change.org says it's time to "start using our tax dollars to build an actual solution. The Surface Street solution proposed before the tunnel was built is viable and much cheaper than the expensive money pit that is tearing away at the foundations of Pioneer Square, eroding public confidence, and making international news as the biggest public fiasco this decade." And over at Crosscut, Knute Berger examines what the voters really said when asked about this project at the polls.

SPD fashion show at City Hall: In a press conference yesterday, the Seattle Police Department announced new uniforms ($850 each), new cars, and a body camera pilot program that will start this weekend. Mayor Ed Murray called it all part of a "new day" for the department. A dozen officers in the East Precinct on Capitol Hill will test the body cameras for six months before they're purchased for the entire department, and SPD will host a hackathon to try to figure out how to handle the redaction they'll need to do when the videos are requested by the public.

Meanwhile, concerns about crime: Residents in the Whittier Heights neighborhood are so upset about property crimes, they're now hiring off-duty cops to watch the area.

Safety problems at Seattle hospitals: The federal government will reduce Medicare payments to nearly half of King County hospitals, including some in Seattle, because of patient safety problems. Lisa Stiffler and Jordan Rau at the Seattle Times write that hospitals are scored based on "the frequency of central-line bloodstream infections caused by tubes used to pump fluids or medicine into veins; infections from tubes placed in bladders to remove urine; and rates of eight kinds of serious complications that occurred in hospitals, including collapsed lungs, surgical cuts, tears and reopened wounds, and broken hips."

More low-income fares coming to local transit: Seattle Streetcar and King County Ferries are the latest to announce they'll offer low-income fares starting next spring. Low-income fares on the South Lake Union Street Car and Link Light Rail will be $1.50; the King County Water Taxi will be $3 for West Seattle and $3.75 for Vashon.

Unclaimed ashes out to sea: The Pierce County medical examiner sent the ashes of 23 people into Puget Sound after the remains sat unclaimed for years and "the office ran out of room" to keep them.

High teacher: A teacher who admitted to doing heroin on school property will—surprise!—not return to teaching anytime soon.

Feds recognize transgender protections: Writing that "the federal government's approach to this issue has also evolved over time," US Attorney General Eric Holder now says federal law protects transgender people from workplace discrimination, meaning the Feds can now bring legal claims on behalf of people who've been discriminated against, reports the AP.

You have to look at this: The Woodland Park Zoo got a new red panda.