Sworn in yesterday, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels earned the profiled position as the 67th President of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). What that means: Nickels will lead the assembly of mayors from cities with populations of 30,000 or more to discuss and debate policy issues impacting urban America and metropolitan areas. This is one of the organizations that has encouraged his environmental gun-ho attitude and projects. And now in his first full day on the job, Nickels will be schmoozing with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He'll be chatting her up about the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, where he'll push for Congress to consider the mayors' recommendations to save the world. more ›

The Stranger has endorsed a No vote on the RTID Proposition 1 (along with the Seattle Times, but thankfully with more logic and, er, research). Their reasoning? "Rather than letting compromised politicians tell us what's possible, the people should tell the leaders what's needed: more light rail without massive roads expansion." more ›

--Gawker likes to point out hilarious writing every once in awhile and we're pretty sure they'd have something to say about "After the National Weather Service announced it was asking the public to name last month's windstorm, it got blown away by the number of entries." more ›

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