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Publicola has the news this morning: a controversial bill that tried to raise density standards around 40 light rail stations has failed to make it out of committee and is dead in the water. The bill, supported by city councilor Sally Clark and generally a good idea, is a casualty of competing progressive interests between poverty activists and environmentalists. John Fox, the head of the Seattle Displacement Coalition, has effectively solidified his reputation as the "local Ralph Nader," in Publicola's estimation, by going against other housing advocates in opposing the bill for not offering enough affordable housing guarantees, while the mayor's office eventually came after it because its affordable housing guarantees were . So now we have nothing, furthering Seattlest's impression that the Democratic leadership in the State government is a joke and that local activists are incapable of delivering on virtually anything. (Read Josh Feit's assessment of the impasse.)

Friday night was our first visit to Chop Suey since the shooting a month or so ago, and the security situation was basically a nightmare. A line of will-call ticket holders wrapped east up the block to the hot-dog vendor's cart. It took almost twenty minutes to get the roped off entry, where a bouncer was already bouncing an enraged young man, furious that he was unable to get into the sold-out show, while his girlfriend, wearing what was little more than an homage to a miniskirt, stared on mortified as he unleashed a tirade only partly in English.