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A bipartisan mayor who's fond of prayer
Dave Edler of Yakima is an unusual politician in a bastion of conservatism.
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Nickels peeks under the Cascade Curtain and gets pissed off
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Joel Connelly, blogging from the Democratic National Convention in Denver, had a nugget [http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattlepolitics/archives/147142.asp] from Seattle's strongman mayor, Greg Nickels.
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Sausage Links, 'piece of cake' edition
So. What did you think about Hillary Clinton last night? Most opinion writers in the media say the former first lady's speech at the Democratic National Convention was one of her finest moments. As Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly put it, the speech "erased the bad blood of a lengt
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Extreme Seattle
New demographic figures make clear what a statistical outlier Seattle is, with few families, few kids, high education, and rapid gentrification. Only San Francisco can compare.
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The Olympics, Seattle-style
Maybe what we need around here, to unstick our sluggish planning and get some major projects built, is a Summer Olympics. Or, better, a Phantom Olympics that delivers the benefits but without the Olympics. Calm down, and let me try a mostly-in-jest thought-experiment.