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Poor Mayor Nickels. The news isn't good for him these days. His plan to replace the crumbling Viaduct with a Big Dig-style tunnel is going the same way as the Seattle Monorail Project he helped kill. The Washington State Department of Transportation released estimates that showed Nickels' $2.8 billion price tag climbing to $4.6 billion. And now, according to articles in The Seattle Times and The Seattle P-I, Nickels is taking the choice out of the voters' hands this November.

It's a day of reckoning today as the bids are due for the land that was destined for the monorail we failed to make manifest. Properties that were forceably purchased by the Seattle Monorail Project for stations and track right-of-ways are obviously not needed anymore and are being sold back to the public. Simply selling the land back to its original owners is not possible because Washington state law says other bids must be accepted, despite a few proposed bills that were introduced in a recent session in Olympia specifically to deal with the situation.

Whoever hired the caterer for the reelection party of Seattle Monorail Board member Cindi Laws, I hope you can get your deposit back.

All the extra money you've been shelling out for car tabs will actually be used for something. The P-I reports this morning that the Seattle Monorail Project has reached agreement with contractors to build the Green Line, from Ballard to West Seattle. The first passengers would board in 2010.

When we were young, Seattlest used to try to negotiate our allowance. It never worked. Upon growing older, and becoming veterans of negotiation with car dealers, landlords, and girlfriends, we realized why. We lacked leverage. There was no other set of parents offering a better deal. The only negotiating tactic we really had was to whine and stomp our feet.