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Seattle. Portland. Which one's better? You may say: "How can you choose? Each has their good points. It's like asking which religion is better." Guess what, asshole, that Negative Nellie attitude is the reason nobody ever asks for your fucking opinion. Jerk. To the debate! First up, it's a pro-Seattle opinion.

Geov Parrish in this week's Seattle Weekly has bought the city's line about a new push to cut down on greenhouse gas emissions.

Greg Nickels made Rolling Stone. Is his new disc out? No. Is he being heralded as one of our country's leading environmentalists? He is! He's one of the "Warriors and Heros: Twenty-five leaders who are fighting to stave off the planetwide catastrophe." Uh, no mention of his significant role in the killing of the green line, but the magazine loved his motions towards Kyoto. Seattlest had an opinion of the mayor's Kyoto commitment back in February:

While most of us spent our weekend doing yard work or screaming at inanimate objects, Mayor Nickels was at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Chicago encouraging others to join the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement.

To growth critics, Mayor Greg Nickels' developer-friendly stances smack of a deal with the dark side. Yet he's also responsible for what's shaping up to be of the most embarrassing domestic-policy confrontations the Bush administration has seen. As NEW's blog Cascadia Scorecard puts it:

Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels delivered his State of the City speech Monday in the midst of a political climate that sees him more or less untouchable in the next election. Nickels has so far been the chief political benefactor of a city repairing itself after the tumultuous reign of Paul Schell and appears set to ride his position far into the future, for better or for worse.