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• End of the Line

  —Seattle Weekly

  Greg Nickels has sat through 378 Sound Transit board meetings. And at last Thursday's—the final one of the year, and Nickels' farewell as the agency's chair—everyone seemed especially deferential, politely smiling when the outgoing Seattle mayor declared "mission accomplished," noting... [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:00pm EST
  

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• Seeing red: McGinn, Mallahan campaigns still in debt

  —Strange Bedfellows

  Between them Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan raised more than $1 million in cash and in-kind contributions in their respective runs for Seattle mayor. [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:59am EST
  

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• That Mayor's Race Data... Now With Pie!

  —Slog

  Perhaps it's easier to see the relative increase in voting among different age groups in the Seattle mayor's race by using pie charts. Because everything's better with pie, right?

  Here, with the age breaks adjusted slightly to reflect more traditional demographic groupings, is the Seattle mayor's race electorate of 2005 [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  

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• Complaint: Gov., state tried to torpedo McGinn campaign

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  Gov. Chris Gregoire and top state officials improperly tried to swing the Seattle mayoral race in Joe Mallahan's favor, a complaint filed Thursday alleges. [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:09pm EST
  

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• Ethics Complaint Filed Against Governor and WSDOT Staff for Trying to Sway Mayor's Race

  —Slog

  Elizabeth Campbell, an anti-tunnel activist who ran in the mayoral primary, filed a complaint with the Washington Executive Ethics Board today charging the governor and nine other state employees with colluding to swing the 2009 Seattle mayor's race. She said the state's attempts to sway public opinion in favor of [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:35pm EST
  

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• Shades of Seattle

  —Ridenbaugh Press

  from Publicola’s map There are no absolute political monoliths; all places have their shades of support. Not even, for Republicans, places like Meridian, Idaho. Nor even, for Democrats, Seattle. Solidly lined-up as those places may be, overall. Publicola has out a map showing the vote split in the close Seattle mayoral race [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:29pm EST
  by Randy Stapilus

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• McGinn announces top staff

  —Strange Bedfellows

  Seattle Mayor-elect Mike McGinn held his first post-election town hall Monday night at Northgate Community Center. McGinn has announced some of his top staffers, including Deputy Mayor Darryl Smith, a South Seattle real estate agent, Deputy Mayor Phil Fujii, who works at Vulcan Inc., the company that manages Paul Allen's' [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 9:35pm EST
  

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• Nickels on the city's past and future - and his own

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  Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels looks at the city he ran for eight years from a vantage point atop the King Street Station clock tower. (Joshua Trujillo, Seattlepi.com) Greg Nickels looks at Seattle and sees the future. [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:00pm EST
  

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• Seattle mayor's race: Send lawyers, guns and spin

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  Washington Cease Fire, the advocacy group which favors gun control, on Tuesday sent out a news release saying that Seattle Mayor-elect Mike McGinn's full-throated support of a new gun ban in the city helped him "turn tide" in the close election against Joe Mallahan. [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 3:06pm EST
  

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• Got a question for Mayor-elect Mike McGinn?

  —Northwest Progressive Institute

  KCTS 9 has just announced that it will be airing the first in-depth post-election interview with newly elected Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn a week from today.
  
  KCTS Connects host Enrique Cerna will be asking McGinn about who he plans to tap for key administrative positions like Deputy Mayor [...]

  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:41pm EST
  

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• Sound Transit's Airport Link to begin service on December 19th at 10 AM

  —Northwest Progressive Institute

  This morning, flanked by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels and King County Executive-elect Dow Constantine, Senator Patty Murray announced that Sound Transit will inaugurate service on Airport Link on Saturday, December 19th at 10 AM.
  
  
  Airport Link - which runs [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:54am EST
  

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