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There are all sorts of things a Port could do. But what should its focus be? Back when Seattle was prouder to be known as a blue-collar shipping hub, cargo containers lining the horizon, the Port used its property tax dollars to encourage things like rail transportation.

The advisory vote on the Viaduct is in and a crushing defeat has been issued to the “No and Hell No” campaign by write-in candidate “Hell No and No.” With strong turnouts in West Seattle, Magnolia and Capitol Hill, voters voiced their opinion on the mayor’s tunnel: as of 11:30pm, 69.88% responded in the negative to a tunnel-surface hybrid--a dramatic “Hell No” in our book. And voters rejected the elevated structure alternative with a less emphatic 55.48%-44.52%--a definite “No” by our reckoning, but definitely not a “Hell No.” Remember the scene in Dumb and Dumber when Dumb takes a one in a million shot to be good news? “So I have a chance!” We’re going to hear from Dumb regarding this 55%.

--Turns out 1% of the best hotels in the world are in the Seattle area.

--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."

--Defective Yeti is live-blogging as he reads Moby Dick. And on the other end of the intellectual spectrum, Seattlest Seth is live-blogging as he watches every episode of The Rockford Files.

-This item has musical accompaniment, but it's going to have to be user supplied. Hum "Taps" while you read. Today's issue of the Seattle Weekly will be the last from the intrepid Knute Berger, Chuck Taylor, George Howland, Geov Parish team.

Here are links to the blogs Seattlest Seth mentioned on tonight's "The Works" with John Moe:

Stefan Sharkansky at Sound Politics calls bullshit on a letter of condolence regarding the Jewish Federation shooting (which Sharkansky calls a "terrorist attack") that Jeff Siddiqui, a local Muslim leader, sent to the Jewish Transcript. This paragraph from the letter seems to particularly offend Sharkansky:

Blogging star of right Stefan Sharkansky (Sound Politics) and blogging star of the left David Goldstein (HorsesAss) were the guest speakers at yesterday's Microsoft PAC lunch.

-Let's not have a repeat of last year's fiasco. Make sure to read this guide to photographing fireworks.

Dean Logan is stepping down as head of King County Elections. He will be taking the Los Angeles County Deputy Elections Registrar position-- which will allow him to take improv classes at night.

There's a post up on Sound Politics that is a perfect example of the right-wing skill of making something up out of whole cloth and then pretending it's true. Supposedly a waitress in Seattle- Well, we'll let them tell it:

Well, it happened. In a 7-2 vote that was never extended to the public, the King County Council agreed to spending at least $500,000 to change our logo from a crown to the likeness of Martin Luther King Jr. And to add to the surreal ludicrousness of this move, Ron Sims is designing the new logo. The jesters are now running the castle, Seattle.

Apparently Republicans don't like the U.S. Postal Service since liberals are able to perpetrate voter fraud by mail much more easily than conservatives. Naturally, the Sound Politics blog is all fired up about King County Executive Ron Sims' plan to make mail-in voting official for elections, maybe by next year.

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:

Student Flyers: The region's Top Gun for teens (uhg) suffered the loss of two students over the weekend when the plane of two freshman students lost power and crashed. Aviation High School has had approximately 1.2 million student flyers since its inception in 1992, but this is the first serious incident.

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

Seattlest (like much of Seattle) likes to ignore the Viaduct's continued existence. Sure, we're as happy as anyone to propound our right-thinking solution to a disinterested audience, but the weather's been very nice. We've had other things on our plate.

Judge John Bridges of Chelan County Superior Court just finished reading his ruling on last year's governor's election. He ruled against the Republicans, saying that for him to overturn the election based on proportional analysis, without proof of fraud, would be "the ultimate act of judicial activism."