Me.
That’s right: Me.
In the midst of another donnybrook with Joe Mallahan’s spokeswoman Charla Neuman—she wouldn’t tell us what Mallahan’s position on the parking tax was—she resorted to accusing us of pro-McGinn bias.
I know there’s a perception that we’re biased in favor of McGinn, but the accusation doesn’t hold up when [...]
King County Executive candidate Dow Constantine unrolled his “reform agenda” for King County at a press conference in his new Bellevue campaign headquarters yesterday. Constantine’s “Uniting King County” platform was endorsed by a cross section of elected officials, including two of Constantine’s primary election opponents and several rural and suburban [...]
Jeremiah "Miah" Slaczka
28-year-old game designer Jeremiah Slaczka, the lanky yet steel-faced co-founder of Bellevue’s 5th Cell Studios is exhausted.
“It’s been a crazy month,” he says, explaining that his worldwide press junket for 5th Cell’s new puzzle game, Scribblenauts, wrapped days earlier. Makes sense that he’s [...]
No takers: Overflow seating for Nickels' budget speech
Update: Nickels is just finishing up his final budget speech, the eighth in his two terms as mayor. His voice shaking slightly, Nickels addressed a council chambers that was about a third empty—a major contrast' [...]
Because I first saw The Pink Panther (1964) at the tender age of eight, I always assumed that my nebulous and confused memories of its plot were due to my own inability to follow along.
Upon repeat some seventeen years later, I realized that I had seriously overestimated [...]
[This was originally posted at noon. It has been updated with comments from Mike McGinn, Susan Hutchison, and Dow Constantine.]
Whoa. I missed this: Andrew Garber at the Seattle Times got some serious quotes from Governor Chris Gregoire about the waterfront tunnel.
Her candor has implications for mayoral candidate Mike McGinn, [...]
Sound Transit just declared light-rail noise a public health emergency. April Putney, political director at Futurewise, had this to say on her Facebook page:
April Putney is a little embarassed. I hadn’t realized that increased “noise pollution” somehow negated a reduction in carbon emissions. In other news, I’m [...]Earlier in the week, we reported on Sen. Maria Cantwell’s list of amendments to the Finance Committee’s big deal health care reform bill. (Cantwell is on Montana Democrat Sen. Max Baucus’ suddenly-famous committee.)
One of her amendments (Classic Cantwell, a wonked out, yet altogether populist piece of corporate accountability that [...]
1. Mayor Greg Nickels will announce his final proposed budget this afternoon at 2:00, including a plan for financing the city’s $930 million portion of the deep-bore waterfront tunnel. There’s also a rumor that Joe Mallahan, one of two candidates who defeated Nickels in the primary, will [...]
Charla Neuman, spokeswoman for mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, called this afternoon to say that opponent Mike McGinn’s press release this afternoon—in which McGinn said Mallahan had come out against Seattle’s commercial parking tax during an appearance on KUOW earlier this week—was inaccurate. “I have not heard him say that,” [...]
A complaint has been filed with the Public Disclosure Commission into what Susan Hutchison’s campaign—in a press release this afternoon—called possible “illegal coordination” between her opponent Dow Constantine’s campaign and a liberal political committee, FAIRPAC.
Hutchison’s campaign did not file the complaint. (It was filed by someone named Judy Brown [...]
City Attorney Tom Carr announced today that he has the support of seven of the nine members of the Seattle City Council. Only Richard Conlin and Nick Licata, who are both running for reelection, have not endorsed Carr. Conlin has not yet returned a call for comment about why he’s [...]
Today’s “Comment of the Day” showed up on a post we published late in the day yesterday—the one about Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon’s YouTube commercial for a Bellevue (not in Snohomish County) sports drink company.
11. Chuck S. says:
I used to drink Sea 2 every afternoon for a pick-me-up… [...]
How hard is it to write outside your genre? Three Seattle writers recently found out.
Tonight at Hugo House, poet Daemond Arrindell, comic book artist David Lasky, and essayist Cienna Madrid “trade” genres, each reading a new piece that [...]
I’m a huge fan of trying new things. Snails? Sure. Ants? Bring ‘em on. Geoduck? Yum.
But sometimes the most exciting new food experiences aren’t primary elements but flavors.
Take, for example, this recipe from Lord Krishna’s Cuisine for baingain aloo charchari, AKA char-cooked eggplant and potatoes. [...]
Mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan made an in-kind, personal contribution to the Yes on R-71 campaign—i.e., yes on gay domestic partnerships—by releasing this YouTube spot.
Click here to view the embedded video. [...]1. The McGinn camp sent out a press release today titled “How Will Mallahan pay for the tunnel?”
The crux of Team McGinn’s hit: A gotcha on Mallahan, who came out against the city’s parking tax on KUOW this week, but who also supports the $4.2 billion waterfront tunnel. The McGinn [...]
Local Sightings is Seattle’s best festival dedicated to regional film. Put on by the Northwest Film Forum every year, it’s now in its twelfth year. Past years have included early work from Lynn Shelton (of Humpday fame) and David Russo (The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle).
Sure, candidates for the general election in November are raking in cash for their campaigns, but what about the folks who lost out in the August primary?
Most of this year’s losing candidates ended their campaigns heavily in debt and have since been struggling to make up the difference. Here’s how [...]
Little is modern about Wooden Shjips. They are a psychedelic rock band from San Fransisco. Their bassist is named Dusty. Their songs are driven by repetitive 60s bass lines, hazy guitar drone and lo-fi filters. It’s a murky mess and captures the feeling of waking up [...]
1. King County Executive candidate Dow Constantine’s budget-cutting plan has a direct (and dismaying) impact on two specific King County Council employees—council administrator Ellen Petre and council policy staff director Saroja Reddy. Although we don’t know Petre, we do know Reddy, who served for years as the [...]
Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, the state official charged with defending the state against a lawsuit attempting to prohibit light rail across the I-90 bridge, has received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the plaintiffs in that lawsuit, according to state campaign-finance records.
McKenna, a former King County Council [...]
This is just plain weird. It appears to be a pitch for an energy drink called Sea 2 by Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon.
“It gives me the lift without giving me the crash … I refer to Sea 2 as the adult oriented in energy drinks … I work out [...]
A reader points out that we missed a big Joe Mallahan endorsement last night. T-Mobile executive Mallahan got the sole endorsement of the King County Democrats.
36. missing Fizz says:
Interesting that you guys decide not to cover Mallahan gaining the SOLE endorsement of the King County Democrats last night …
Mallahan [...]
Seattle Times reporter Jim Brunner had a nice scoop yesterday: Veteran local fundraiser Colby Underwood (a longtime fundraiser for Mayor Greg Nickels) has signed on with mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan’s campaign—an event foretold by the soothsayers at Morning Fizz.
The news adds to some timely reporting over at [...]
Aspiring authors growing up in Seattle are in pretty good shape. They have 826 Seattle, Hugo Scribes summer camps, and the longest running (as far as I know) kids’ writing program, Writers in the Schools.
Last year alone, 5,000 local students got to work with visiting writers Ha [...]
Ed. Note: This post has been updated to reflect the fact that Susan Hutchison has raised $78,000 since the primary, not $56,000.
The latest campaign finance reports show that King County Executive candidate Dow Constantine has continued to out-raise his opponent, former KIRO anchor and frequent Republican donor Susan Hutchison, by [...]
A coalition of minority advocacy, civil liberties, and social justice groups sponsored a candidate forum—titled “To Protect & Serve?”—at the Rainier Valley Cultural Center last night that focused on public safety and criminal justice.
The auditorium was packed for two hours as a parade of exclusively white candidates [...]
King County Executive candidates Dow Constantine and Susan Hutchison squared off today at the Rainier Tower conference room in downtown Seattle for a King County Bar Association-sponsored debate about the court system, criminal justice, and the county’s budget deficit.
The debate, which was moderated by KCBA president James [...]
This was originally posted at noon today.
[Editor's Note: From day one of his campaign for mayor, Mike McGinn has been talking about building a citywide broadband network.
At at time when voters are concerned about crime and the recession, many found McGinn's pitch a bit "yuppie."
However, McGinn has [...]
Today’s “Comment of the Day” goes to regular Cola reader Andrew Smith who had this to say about Erica’s “C” is for Crank column today:
14. Andrew Smith says:
I ride Link and the bus each day and I have had problems with orca exactly once, and that was when it [...]
If you’re reading this then you’ve come to Publicola via an old bookmark. Please update it to: [publicola.net]
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Photos by Jack Hunter
After dominating the first half, we continue the pillage the second until every fan has bitten every nail down to the wick. We out hustle and out play Chivas. The Goats are constantly back peddling, defending attack after attack. [...]
[Editors note: SeahawksNerd sent this email at 4:04pm: "Holy shit...what a win for the Huskies!!!" And then at 5:19pm: "Check out your email."
So, here's SeahawksNerd's report on today's big win. Again, this is not Josh. This is SeahawksNerd, who will have his own byline soon enough.]
[Editor's Note: Introducing PubliCola's football coverage. And we don't mean this soccer stuff. No commie football. This is the American version.
Welcome SeahawksNerd whose first installment (symbolically enough?) is about the Huskies. And this isn't Josh posting. SeahawksNerd will have his own byline in time.]
The Huskies open up their [...]
[This post be written by Sam Machkovech, arrrr.]
Today be Talk Like A Pirate Day! Avast! Hoist the mateys! Uh, scurvy. A few options if you mean to celebrate:
1) If you use Facebook, change the language setting. “Settings” –> “Language” –> “English (Pirate)”—it’s funny for 8 seconds.
2) Enjoy a free [...]
Seattle Sounders, 9-6-10, 37pts
vs
Chivas de LA, 11-9-3, 36pts
Last meetings: 4/18/09 Chivas win 2-0, 6/6/09 Chivas win 1-0
Trends are funny things, trying to find patterns in events that happen once a week for only a few months. What’s in a trend, anyway?
Currently, the Sounders’ trend is to win [...]
The Regional Transportation Commission—chaired by Seattle Democratic King County Council member Dow Constantine but dominated by representatives of suburban cities—seems poised to formally oppose a proposal by King County Executive Kurt Triplett that would designate Metro bus service cuts as “suspensions,” rather than permanent cuts. At a meeting of the [...]
…candidly.
Sidenote from the previous post: While I had King County Labor Council spokesman David Freiboth on the phone, I asked him why the KCLC endorsed T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan for mayor earlier this week over Mike McGinn. Afterall, as was widely reported during the primary, Mallahan was [...]
In this morning’s Morning Fizz, we reported that Susan Hutchison dodged a question on her King County Labor Council questionnaire about voucher schools.
Check it out for yourself. Her random answer sounds like it was generated by an automated voice at the other end of the line:
• What is [...]
First, a confession: I was going to write about Julie and Julia—the much-discussed movie that juxtaposes the life of Julia Child with that of Julie Powell, a spoiled New York blogger who spends a year making every dish in Mastering the Art of French Cooking and whining about ti—but once [...]
[This post is written by GameNerd Sam Machkovech.]
Good news for Microsoft: People seem to like the Zune HD, the company’s latest portable MP3/video doohickey (and first to truly catch up to Apple’s offerings). Three years after the original version, who’da thunk MS would finally get the hint and [...]
[This post is written by GameNerd Sam Machkovech.]
Good news for Microsoft: People seem to like the Zune HD, the company’s latest portable MP3/video doohickey (and first to truly catch up to Apple’s offerings). Three years after the original version, who’da thunk MS would finally get the hint and [...]
City Council member Tim Burgess is drafting legislation that would place new restrictions on panhandling, potentially banning panhandling at night; at freeway entrances and exits; within 25 feet of an ATM; and when the person being panhandled is getting into or out of a car. “What [...]
Sorry for the 2-hour outage.
Erica thought she was our IT person for a second there this morning and tried to “upgrade” the site.
Here at the office, we’ve turned it into a teachable moment.
[...]Folk duo Thousands create something temporary and revel in it. They record all over rural Washington—in old barns, silos and graveyards—in order to capture a specific place at an exact moment, unplanned bird calls, airplanes and all. The result is haunting; their songs feel lived in then abandoned.
This attention to [...]
1. I hate to be cynical, but check out how health insurance industry stocks did on Wednesday morning after Sen. Max Baucus released his health care reform plan.
2. King County Executive candidate, Council Member Dow Constantine, got off a good one-liner in Wednesday night’s Seattle [...]
The Northwest Progressive Institute has an in-depth report on King County Executive candidate Susan Hutchison’s position on Tim Eyman’s I-1033, an initiative that would cap the state budget at current levels, adjusted for inflation (and mandate that any revenues that exceed current spending needs would go to reduce property [...]
Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn announced today that he’s opening a campaign office in Southeast Seattle, at 6951 Martin Luther King Jr Way, Suite 223.
The announcement comes two days after McGinn held a press conference at the Columbia City light rail station to announce plans to expand light rail within two [...]
“Live at the Film Forum,” a yearlong series that will integrate film with live performances, kicks off tonight with the locally-produced Bridging Wounds, which utilizes original music, movement and animation to explore the connection between words and perception.
Tonight’s film forum show is Bridging [...]
I’ve been calling Senate Finance Committee member Sen. Maria Cantwell’s office since Wednesday morning after Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), the Finance Committe chair, unveiled his (sans public option) health care plan.
I left the following question on her spokeswoman’s voice mail: Given Sen. Cantwell’s bold statements on health care reform [...]
[Editor's note, this isn't PubliCola's real BarNerd, President Andrew, it's Sandeep, who—it must be acknowledged—is something of real BarNerd himself.]
In his “Under the Needle” column, former Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Mike Lewis reported on outside the mainstream, quirky and colorful “stories from the streets of Seattle.” Now Lewis, who lost his [...]
Maria Goodloe-Johnson
Ed. Note: This post was originally published this morning.
You may have seen this article in the Seattle Times which explains that Seattle Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson has proposed lowering the graduation requirement. That’s right, lowering.
From the Times:
Seattle Public Schools may do away with [...]
Yesterday afternoon, The Stranger decided to give Jonah Spangenthal-Lee, the paper’s well-sourced crime reporter, his walking papers.
Jonah, who has the chops of a hard-boiled 1940s reporter with one of those over-sized “Press” cards leaning crookedly in his fedora, is actually an amiable, young hip-hop dude. It just so happens he [...]
Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn released a proposal earlier this week to tackle an estimated $72 million revenue shortfall at the city. Riding on the train back from his light-rail press conference yesterday, I had an opportunity to talk to McGinn at length about his proposal, which I [...]
Smart Choice? Big Food thinks so.
As you may already be aware, there’s a new food-labeling campaign underway courtesy of the US’s biggest processed-food manufacturers. Called “Smart Choices” and managed by the American Society of Nutrition, the program allows food companies to place [...]
The Stranger was furious about a story I wrote last week, in which I reported the news (before many of the paper’s own staffers even knew) that the paper was hiring former P-I writer Claudia Rowe as news editor.
In my story, I criticized Rowe’s first article, in [...]
[Editor's Note:And here's PubliCola's real BookNerd, Heidi Broadhead.]
Earlier this week, author Stephen Elliott (Happy Baby, frequent contributor to The Believer) wrote a piece for The Rumpus about how he inadvertently promoted his new memoir, The Adderall Diaries:
A few months ago, sitting on a bunch of advance copies [...]
This is not Heidi, PubliCola’s real BookNerd.
This is Josh.
1) The Most Disappointing Book of 2009: Columbine by Dave Cullen
Last week, I read Columbine, news writer Dave Cullen’s supposedly definitive account of the infamous 1999 high school shooting. This book was hyped when it came [...]
[This story was originally posted at Noon.]
Standing outside the Columbia City light rail station this morning, mayoral candidate Mike McGinn announced an ambitious, if less than fully formed, plan to expand light rail within two years to neighborhoods on the west side of Seattle, including Ballard, Queen [...]
The the latest SurveyUSA poll shows T-Mobile executive Joe Mallahan beating green neighborhood activist and lawyer Mike McGinn 41 to 36 in the mayor’s race, with 23 percent undecided.
The poll bucks the recent buzz that McGinn seems to be out-campaigning and out-performing Mallahan.
The poll shows that [...]
As Morning Fizz promised, here’s how the 11th District Democrats (S. Seattle, mostly Renton, Burien, SeaTac, Tukwila) endorsed last night for the general election.
They endorsed King County Council Member Dow Constantine for King County Executive. (The district had endorsed Constantine, Democratic state Rep. Ross Hunter, and King County Council [...]
1. The 43rd District Democrats made their endorsements in the general election last night. The lefty district (Capitol Hill, Wallingford, parts of downtown and the University District) overwhelmingly picked Mike McGinn for mayor (69 percent), Mike O’Brien for City Council Position 8 (72 percent), and a “no” [...]
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) gave a speech (video here) on the Senate floor this afternoon calling for Medicare reform, hitting all your favorite Utne Reader speaking points about scrapping “fee for service” and tying costs to outcomes instead. (Earlier this month, Cantwell also hit [...] 
Joe Mallahan and spokeswoman Charla Neuman
Mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan’s campaign just filed its updated campaign-finance reports for August. (Total money raised: $416,179, including more than $230,000 from Mallahan; total spent: $71,390; total cash on hand: -$(that’s negative) 26,782.
Among the biggest expenditures: $4,500 [...]
Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn sent out a press release this afternoon announcing a press conference tomorrow at the Columbia City light rail station.
The only problem? He identified the station as being at “Empire Way S and S Edmunds St.” Empire Way hasn’t existed since 1983, when the city renamed the [...]
The House formally admonished Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his outburst last week during President O’s Joint Congressional speech.
The resolution of disapproval was a simple, one sentence statement, introduced by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), and states: “that the House of Representatives disapproves of the behavior [...]
The reading to see tonight is at Elliott Bay. Seattle author Ryan Boudinot is reading from Misconception: A Novel (his first), about a man named Cedar Rivers who’s asked by a former girlfriend to read her memoir, which is not only about him, but partially told from his point [...]
Teabagging at a rally against health care reform
This post is by Jake Blumgart.
The summer of health care reform provided us with the most important domestic policy debate in years, but it also produced a bizarre scare campaign that somehow convinced [...]
Josh is right—I do have issues with Mike Lindblom’s story this morning. Wonky issues! Although Lindblom (a thorough, solid reporter) did get “both sides” of the debate, I’m disappointed that he didn’t challenge some of the more spurious claims made by surface/transit opponents—the most ridiculous [...]
I’m pretty sure someone at Central Cinema is psychic—or perhaps they were just following the news about Patrick Swayze’s cancer battle. Either way, they’ve been running a Patrick Swayze tribute since Sunday with a candlelight sing-along. Swayze left us yesterday afternoon, taking a lot of sexy with him.
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I will be on Ross Reynolds’ The Conversation today around 12:30. Tune in. KUOW 94.9 FM.
[...]Seattle Times wonky transportation reporter Mike Lindblom has a big (and important) story this morning on mayoral candidate Mike McGinn’s main issue—McGinn’s opposition to the $4.2 billion tunnel.
It’s a well reported piece, laying out both the pros, cons, and question marks about McGinn’s pledge to stop the tunnel. (Although, [...]
1. Mayor Greg Nickels reportedly called city council members urging them not to sign a letter supporting King County’s request for federal transportation stimulus dollars to replace the crumbling South Park Bridge, because he feels the county project will compete with Seattle for federal TIGER Grant (transportation [...]
Ancient history edition:
Developer Richard Hedreen, beneficiary of an infamous $6 million city giveaway for affordable housing he never built, and his wife, Betty, have given $1,400 to city council candidate Sally Bagshaw—the maximum contribution allowed from a couple. Josh broke the story—which he dubbed the “Six-Million-Dollar Scam”—back in 2002.
Although [...]
The Ballard Bridge “death trap”—a brief cut in the tall curb that divides a narrow bike lane from the traffic that zooms by at 45 mph just inches away on the Ballard Bridge—leads directly into the path of right-turning oncoming traffic. If you’re on a [...]
This story was originally posted yesterday afternoon.
Bellevue megadeveloper Kemper Freeman and other longtime light-rail opponents are supporting a slate of candidates in this November’s Bellevue City Council elections that, Freeman hopes, will stymie plans to build light rail at-grade through downtown Bellevue (where most of Freeman’s developments [...]
A batch of local big deal companies—Boeing, Microsoft, Nike, Puget Sound Energy, Real Networks, and Vulcan—have written a letter supporting R-71, the referendum to approve state legislation expanding domestic partnerships.
The statment is below the fold. And as one business insider told me: “Money will follow.”
BUSINESSES TO APPROVE REFERENDUM 71 [...]Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn—known as an urban Green—has been hit since day one for not paying attention to the issue of crime and gang violence. It’s a bread and butter issue, and his nearly total failure to raise the issue of public safety on the campaign trail (and his enviro [...]
The Alki Foundation—the political arm of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce—has endorsed Joe Mallahan for mayor, despite what many observers agree was a lackluster performance at last week’s Chamber-sponsored mayoral debate.
As we noted last week, the business community is in a bit of a quandary: As longtime backers [...]
Editor’s Note: Joshua Curtis, Executive Director of Great City, a non-profit founded by Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn, has responded to Erica’s article about Great City’s financial ties. Here is Curtis’ letter:
This past Friday, Erica C. Barnett of PubliCola filed a report on Great City’s contributions meant to call [...]
The conservative web site News Busters (committed to fighting what they percieve as liberal bias in the media), posted a long article yesterday objecting to the notion, being promoted by the New York Times, that Republicans are getting in the way of health care reform.
The News Busters [...]
Google is a mighty big and frightening company. It wants to index all earthly knowledge. It mints money. And many of us have transferred much of our daily activities to its cloud-based hive-mind of servers.
Now it’s coming for the books.
In Vernor Vinge’s cyberpunk novel Rainbow’s End, a firm called Huertas [...]
Two weeks ago after a disappointing home loss to New England, Captain Keller was blunt: “We’re not in form to make the playoffs, something we need to turn around immediately.
Well, with our second 2-1 victory in DC on Saturday, perhaps we’ve turned it around.
I thought I’d suss out the [...]
1. Thurston County Superior Court ruled against Tim Eyman on Friday. Eyman had filed a suit complaining that the state’s Office of Financial Management’s miscalculated the hit state and local governments would take. (1033 limits the amount of revenues the state can spend.)
OFM’s fiscal note—which the [...]
I’ll be on the Stay Up Late Show tonight, which I’m a little confused about because it starts at 8, which isn’t late.
It’s at ACT Theater at 700 Union. Bar opens at 7:30.
Tonight’s other guests include: Ade (”Host of Re-Bar’s Special Ladies”—although I think of [...]
Sounders, 8-6-10, 34pts, 4th place Western division
vs
DC United, 8-5-12, 36pts, 3rd place Eastern division
4:30pm. At DC.
Last meetings: 9/2/09, Open Cup Final, Seattle 2-1
It’s been so long. Who are the Sounders? I mean, the NFL is starting and Vick is back doing whatever and who are the Sounders?
What were they [...]
This article was originally posted on Friday.
Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn
Mayoral candidate Mike McGinn is best known as an environmentalist and biking enthusiast. He founded the green urbanist group Great City; he served as head of the local Sierra Club; and his campaign slogan is [...]
Hot, hot, hot
I’m not from Seattle, and it shows. Unlike born-and-raised Seattleites, I have a taste for spicy food—jalapeno-studded salsa, fiery pickled peppers, flaming-hot barbecue sauce. I love the shock of a searing tongue, the chills, the hallucinatory glow, that come from a truly fiery [...]
Goofs at a house party with an acoustic guitar singing a protest song against lefty city council member Nick Licata.
From Licata challenger Jessie Israel’s campaign blog:
Click here to view the embedded video.And before you accuse PubliCola of giving Israel free ad time. Um, well, watch the vid.
[...]Forward Seattle, a two-year-old PAC funded by businesses and developers (the Building Owners and Managers Association, the Master Builders Association, the Washington Association of Realtors, and Vulcan, among others) to advocate for city candidates, just paid two firms $16,000 to do polling on behalf of unspecified city candidates.
Although neither of [...]
The candidates who survived the August 18 primary election have filed their latest campaign finance reports and—surprise!—nobody has much money left. However, some candidates spent more than others, leaving them tens of thousands of dollars in debt going into the November general.
Mayoral candidate Joe Mallahan, for example, is currently $32,000 [...]
This week we will announce the winners of our first annual awards for sycophants—at the federal, state, county, and local levels: The 2009 Eve Harrington Awards.
Why is a certain Republican U.S. Rep. from Washington state rising so fast in party leadership ranks? How was a [...]
Much beloved fictionist Lorrie Moore will take the stage tonight at the Seattle Public Library to read from A Gate at the Stairs, her first book in over ten years.
In his New York Times review, Jonathan Lethem called this novel about a Midwestern, nannying college [...]
It’s a great weekend for movies. SIFF Cinema is back from summer break with You, The Living, a personal favorite from SIFF 2008. Central Cinema is having a Michael Jackson sing-along tribute with videos and costumes (prize for the biggest MJ fan). The Grand Illusion is in [...]
We’re excited about our expanding coverage these days. (For those still hanging on for ScrapBookingNerd though, we aren’t making any promises.)
Conventional wisdom says news websites need to stick with links, commentary, and quickie blurbs, but we’ve been committed to original reporting from the start.
This week we went a step [...]
1. No one has returned our calls on this one, so file it under wild rumor, but Morning Fizz hears that David Doud, who’s running for the Seattle Port Commission, is dropping his big-name political consultant Cathy Allen. Doud, an Eastside real-estate broker, is running against [...]
SC Republican Joe Wilson having an "angry white man" moment during Obama's health care speech
There’s so much to cover from last night’s boner-inducing O-speech. Where to start?
Before we launch, let’s address the South Carolina elephant in [...]
This Joe Wilson is running for Snohomish County Superior Court.
Joe Wilson, as everybody knows, is a South Carolina congressman who heckled Barack Obama during his health-care speech last night, yelling, “You lie!” when Obama said that nothing in [...]
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