Tuesday news roundup

The Governor tells us to stay at home, and SDOT closes the West Seattle Bridge. Have you heard about the plague of locusts in Africa?

The Seattle Times, KING, KOMO, KIRO, West Seattle Blog, Puget Sound Business Journal, Engineering News-Record, The Stranger, and Seattle Bike Blog report on the closing of the West Seattle Bridge due to cracks in the structure.

The Seattle Times, KING, KOMO, KIRO, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog, Washington State Wire, Crosscut, GeekWire, Seattle Bike Blog, South Seattle Emerald, The Stranger, West Seattle Blog, and Erica Barnett (here and here) continue coverage of the COVID-19 outbreak and Governor Inslee’s “stay home” order yesterday.

The Stranger writes that if you wre denied unemployment benefits, it might have been a glitch.