More challengers the merrier for a McGinn re-election
As the mayor looks weaker, more candidates are smelling blood. Here's why a crowd of challengers could be good news for Mayor McGinn. Plus, seven who might get interested in a race.
David Brewster founded Crosscut. He is now the director of Folio: The Seattle Athenaeum.
As the mayor looks weaker, more candidates are smelling blood. Here's why a crowd of challengers could be good news for Mayor McGinn. Plus, seven who might get interested in a race.
Mayor McGinn delivers the sad news for 2012, putting a few mini-departments on notice and applying cross-the-board cuts to the rest.
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Chronic financial problems force the board to make a hard call, canceling the remainder of this season and taking time to regroup.
(With an update) The measure, allowing counties to pass new taxes to support arts and education, had been revised to get Speaker Frank Chopp's support, but lack of support in the House Democratic caucus killed it again this year.