Results tagged “ferguson”

Democrats supporting the proposal fired back with partisan shots of their own. "I think that's a bunch of right-wing blog nonsense...I think what's important is the answers he gives when he appears before the council," said the council's ranking thinker Dow Constantine.

You know that five year-old Nokia candy bar we’ve been lugging around? Shocking, but it’s not Bluetooth-enabled!

On Friday the City Council capped off a busy week by appointing Sally Clark as Jim Compton's replacement.

If you’re like Seattlest, you hate the game, not the playa. If you’re a Seattle City Council member, you heart the homeless, but they tents the live in? Not so much. Councilmembers unanimously approved Harry Potter-esque District 2 council member Bill “Fergie” Ferguson’s proposal to turn closed motels into homeless housing. The “Jumpstart Initiative” is modeled on the Aloha Inn, the Aurora Avenue motel-turned-tent city remedy the city purchased in 1991. That earsplitting sound you hear was Seattlest nearly ripping the Velcro clean off our Trapper Keeper as we rushed to graph the breakneck pace of the council’s progress toward the Ten Year Plan to End Homelessness.

At Seattlest, we read the candidate endorsements so you don't have to flip that far into your paper. In our thorough research, certain themes emerged. At the P-I, they wrote endorsements as if they were late for a meeting. For Seattle City Council--return all the incumbents, they say. Statewide Initiatives? Say no to everything! Port Commission? It's time for change!

The Battle in North Seattle and Surrounding Areattles appears to be over.

There's approximately 550,000 people in Seattle, and about 45,000 of them voted yesterday. What did this select few decide?

"Where is everybody?" you may be asking yourself. Well silly, they are all at the polls-- as we wrote yesterday, it is the Primary Election.

King County will be holding its primary election next Tuesday; however, in two races the primary will also act as the general election. Because Democrats live in the city and Republicans live on the Eastside, the two races that feature only candidates from a particular party will be decided next week (or in the courts sometime next June).

Council member Carolyn Edmonds by a vote of 381 to 288.

Political party infighting is nothing new, and as a result of the King County Council shrinking from thirteen seats to nine it is back in a big way.

We all remember Peter Venkman listing the side effects of a possible Armageddon, "Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, incumbents running against incumbents, mass hysteria!" This fall mass hysteria may be coming to a ballot near you.