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October 7, 2011
The Wino Drinks a Toast to 'Occupy Wall Street'-ers
Hey, fellow lushes! I don't know about you, but I've been laser-focused on the beautiful acts of civil disobedience in New York and across the country for the past couple of weeks, glued to #OccupyWallStreet Twitter updates. Power to the people! (And to free wifi!!) While I'm not exactly ready to p ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Gov. Gregoire Signs Bill to Increase College Tuition by Double Digits That's Called The "Higher Education Opportunity Act"
Good news, college hopefuls! Washington Governor Chris Gregoire just signed a bill that will create new opportunities for higher education. In fact, the bill she signed is called the the Higher Education Opportunity Act! For example, students will now have the "opportunity" to pay 16 percent ... More >>
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November 15, 2010
Brian Baird, Departing House Rep, Burns Bridges All The Way To New District
It's possible that recently retired 3rd District Rep. Brian Baird finally feels free to speak his mind about how nobody in Washington gets it but him. What's more likely, however, is that he wants to set the tone for what may be a new future in a more conservatively matched 1st district. Eith ... More >>
News
November 3, 2010
Misleaders of the Pack
It was a banner election season for obfuscation.
Blogs
November 1, 2010
Memorable Political Ads Worth Forgetting
It's difficult to believe - as is most everything this political season - the state is suing only Moxie Media of Seattle for possibly misleading voters about an election campaign. It was Moxie's mystery ads that helped unseat incumbent Democrat state senator Jean Berkey of Everett - mystery b ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Dave Reichert Endorsed by Stimulus-Backing Union Over Democrat Suzan DelBene
Eastside Republican Congressional Representative Dave Reichert said "nay" to the 2009 federal stimulus bill. But in spite of that, this morning the Dem-loving, stimulus-supporting International Union of Painters and Allied Trades gave him its endorsement over challenger Suzan DelBene. Talk ab ... More >>
News
September 1, 2010
Dino's Stimulus Wackage
The spending he approved in 2003 looks a lot like the "boondoggles" he's criticizing now.
Blogs
August 31, 2010
Dino Rossi's Own Record of Stimulus Spending
U.S. Senate hopeful Dino Rossi called the federal stimulus package (approved by incumbent Patty Murray) "a collection of wasteful earmarks and bailouts." But Rossi himself, when he was in the state Senate, put millions of dollars of government money into struggling businesses and job-creati ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Matthew E. Kahn
U.S. Senate hopeful Dino Rossi called the federal stimulus package (approved by incumbent Patty Murray) "a collection of wasteful earmarks and bailouts." But Rossi himself, when he was in the state Senate, put millions of dollars of government money into struggling businesses and job-creati ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2010
New Jake One & Freeway Video Airing May 2 on MTV
The video for Philly flamethrower Freeway and Seattle super-producer Jake One's Rick James-sampled "She Makes Me Feel Alright," off their debut collaboration The Stimulus Package, will premiere May 2 during a special edition of MTV Jams dedicated to the ironically titled City of Brotherly Love. (Sor ... More >>
Blogs
April 1, 2010
First Impressions: A Little Disquisition on Album Openings in Local Hip-Hop
The opener for The Stimulus Package, Jake One's collaboration with Freeway, sets the tone for the rest of the disc.Beginnings matter because they establish the rules of the game. They set the tone and define the scope of the artist's ambition, and it is because of these functions that we pay ... More >>
News
March 10, 2010
No Clocks for the Ferry
Not even the Recovery Act can help WSF commuters know the time.
Blogs
March 10, 2010
Pun(c)tuation Art Space Hosts THEESatisfaction Send-Off This Friday
Opened in November '09, the relatively new pun(c)tuation art and performance space on East Pike bills itself as a home to seekers of good taste, focused on the facilitation of quality and the proliferation of making and doing. And while these are certainly lofty goals, its calendar this weeke ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Dave Reichert Maintains Greenish Cred, Watch Out Dems
FacebookReichert continues to be, if not green, at least a nice shade of chartreuse.Republican Dave Reichert reminded the Democrats today that he isn't a formidable opponent because he's a giant of the GOP, rather because he's the very definition of moderate, just like the district he represe ... More >>
Blogs
February 18, 2010
A.M. Music News: Paul McCartney Wants to Save Something Other Than Haiti
Seattle's Jake One -- Pitchfork gives Freeway/Jake One's The Stimulus Package a modest 6.5 review, "still enough to make the LP one of the stronger rap releases of 2010 thus far." Read Kevin Capp's feature on the duo over here. -- BBC: Paul McCartney hopes Abbey Road Studios can be saved. "I ... More >>
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February 12, 2010
More From Jake One on Freeway and The Stimulus Package
Jake OneHere are some additional insights from Jake One about The Stimulus Package, the album he produced for Phili MC Freeway: On Freeway's process: "It just surprised me how fast he worked. It was just kind of a trip seeing that. He came out [to Seattle] for, like, three or four days, and ... More >>
Music
February 10, 2010
(Jake) One for the Road
Freeway gets a boost—and old-school beats—from one of the city’s finest knob-twisters.
Blogs
January 28, 2010
The Future: Hawks, Rock, and a McKagan/Novoselic Ticket In 2012
Duff McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb. He writes about what's circulating through his iPod every Monday.Sometimes I just can't find that one defining thing to write about. It is often at this point, when I can't focus, that I realize that a bunch of stuff is all going on at once ... More >>
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January 26, 2010
Video: A Sneak Peek At Freeway and Jake One's The Stimulus Package
Bookoo credit to Rhymesayers for tapping Brent Rollins to design the high-end packaging for Freeway's third solo album, The Stimulus Package, which is due out Feb. 16 and produced entirely by our own Jake One. Check the video below in order to see all the goodies awaiting those who grab a physical c ... More >>
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January 20, 2010
The Scalawags of South Park Marina Look For New Homes
The construction of replacement for the South Park Bridge remains up in the air, but some residents are already being displacedKing County may not actually get the $99 million in federal stimulus funds it needs to move forward with construction on a replacement for the famously decaying South ... More >>
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January 13, 2010
Boeing Wins Contract For Environmental Cleanup, Sues The State Because Cleanup Is Too Hard
Attention Boeing Execs: This is not a compelling legal argumentAs any competent public relations expert will tell you, accepting $15.9 million in federal stimulus money for "environmental monitoring" at a site you've spent years polluting, and then suing to loosen the mandated standards for c ... More >>
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December 22, 2009
Reader: The People Will Not Stand for the Marxist Hijacking of America
FlickrLittle Melissa readies herself for the coming insurrection.Reader Ron Monks responds to Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell Play Nice on Health Care Reform Bill, Miss Out on Extra Goodies. Mr. Monks is apparently stocking up on canned goods and ammunition in preparation for Revolutionary Wa ... More >>
News
October 7, 2009
Dow’s Painted Pledge to the South Park Bridge
Paying for it will be a lot stickier.
Blogs
August 26, 2009
Green for Green: Feds Give Seattle Stimulus Cash for Clean Energy Projects
Get used to seeing these.While Seattle's lost out on some stimulus money (for example, for city transportation projects), and Greg Nickels lost an election, they both got a boost today in the form of $1.4 million from the Department of Energy for "clean fuels, vehicles, and infrastructure pro ... More >>
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June 16, 2009
Nickels' Buck Banging
Following his decision to skirt (a.k.a. cross) a firefighters' union picket line in Providence that Obama administration officials wouldn't, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels yesterday said he and other mayors will eventually meet with the White House, in part to discuss distribution of stimulus funds. H ... More >>
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May 26, 2009
Drago's On the Attack
Standing under the Hammering Man statute, her hair dyed blond and a fresh pink pedicure, Jan Drago kicked off her campaign against Greg Nickels going on the offensive. Flanked by city council member Bruce Harrell (who better hope he needs absolutely no favors from the mayor for the next seven months ... More >>
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May 20, 2009
King County Doesn't Drive Quite as Hard a Bargain as Michael Scott, but It Does Okay
You may recall that about the time The Office's Michael Scott's own miscalculations forced him to negotiate his job back at Dunder-Mifflin, King County found itself in the same position, using the same bluffing strategies to try to get a larger-than-originally-agreed-upon share of a federal criminal ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2009
Another Lone Dissent by McIver, This Time on the Council's Economic Recovery Plan
Most City Council votes are formalities, clocking in at 9-0. But occasionally, there's a dissenter. A couple months ago, it was Richard McIver, who said he voted against a land transfer bill because he hadn't had the chance to review it. Yesterday, it was McIver again, though this time he had more s ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2009
Exec Candidates: Your New Super-Needy Boyfriend
You're making it hard not to.A few years back I was totally crushing on this guy I'd see once every couple of months when I sang with a local classical music group. He was tall, handsome, seemed a little distant and aloof--totally swoon worthy. I just about passed out one spring day when he walked o ... More >>
Blogs
May 6, 2009
Auditor's Cuts: Your Vote Revoked
If it costs a penny to learn you are wasting a dime on every dollar you spend, is it worth it? It wasn't to the state legislature when it approved the state's latest budget, cutting almost 75 percent of the performance audit funding going to state auditor Brian Sonntag's office. That has steamed the ... More >>
Blogs
May 1, 2009
Summer Vacation Comes Early, and Other Swine Flu News
Green Grown and SexyWe're up to six schools shut down now--three of them in Seattle (Aki Kurose, Madrona K-8, and Stevens Elementary)--and the city sent out a press release encouraging parents not to send kids whose school got canceled to the library or community center. But it didn't say anything a ... More >>
Blogs
April 7, 2009
CBS, Tom Coburn, Dow Constantine Wag Fingers at Our Stimulus Spending
South Park BridgeThere's been no shortage of consternation over how we've spent our stimulus dollars. Seattle is all sorts of unhappy about none of the state-funneled money going to Seattle. And now, reports CBS News, Oklahoma Senator/all-around idiot Tom Coburn--the guy who once said, "That agenda ... More >>
News
March 4, 2009
Stimulating Parking Tickets?
The mayor wants $400K for a better way to write you up.
Blogs
March 3, 2009
Nickels' Viaduct Fight Makes the NYT
Everyone wants a chuck of President Obama's federal stimulus spending, especially when it comes to costly transportation projects. The first $26.6 billion was released today, according to The New York Times, which also quotes our Mayor Greg Nickels griping about our state legislature omitting Seattl ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2009
Nickels' Stimulus Plan: More Parking Tickets
Among the projects Mayor Greg Nickels has sought to fund with the Obama stimulus money is the purchase of $412,540 worth of new devices to issue parking tickets in Seattle. It's a proposal that has some asking what hizzoner is thinking since, for one, it adds no new jobs, and two, appears to stimula ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2009
Jan Drago Says She Didn't Know About Stimulus Slight, Rips State's Funding Decisions
Yesterday, the legislature gave Seattle the shaft on transportation stimulus money, which it poured instead into rural highway concrete. But an interesting story arose at the news conference, in which House Transportation Chair Judy Clibborn said Jan Drago and Greg Nickels knew ahead of time about t ... More >>
Blogs
February 24, 2009
Nickels Pulls a Fast One?
Updates Below That's what Councilmembers Rasmussen and Licata say happened with yesterday's vote to approve funding for the Mercer corridor project, which many council members thought would get federal stimulus money. Today, the legislature announced the recipients of the state's share of stimulu ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2009
Duff McKagan: How to Rock Off the Recession
Duff McKagan, at 15, performing with the Fastbacks. McKagan's column runs every Thursday on Reverb.So the stimulus package has been pushed through, and the summarizations of its results are now being listed publicly. President Obama has inherited a real "lulu" as far as our economy is concerned, and ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2009
Eat Like A Bottomfeeding Protestor
Protesting the government's wasteful fiscal policy is hungry work. There's no point in chanting clever slogans about the tax burden being imposed upon your children and grandchildren, when your stomach is as empty as a Hyannis Port liquor cabinet after a Kennedy pool party. Monday's demonstration ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2009
Sen. Murray on the Stimulus Package
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the stimulus package as pushed by the Obama Administration. It was no surprise that both of Washington's Democratic Senators voted in favor of the $838 billion measure. The House version of the bill is $19 billion less and the difference between the two will be ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2009
Should Revamped KeyArena Be Part of Federal Stimulus Package?
It's not as far-fetched as you might think, writes Henry Abbott: "The [Sacramento] Kings are reportedly losing a lot of money. And they are trying again to find a plan to finance a new arena that will help them be profitable. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. politicians are talking about 'shovel ready' ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2009
Power Broker in Tennis Shoes
She got into the Senate with a slogan about her footwear. She sits at Ted Stevens' former desk. She voted against the Iraq war. And she's one of the most prolific earmarkers in Congress (she recently got $6.4 billion in Hanford clean-up money written into the Senate economic stimulus bill). She's Pa ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2009
Bringin' Home the 'Bama Bacon: Mercer Mess and Spokane Street Viaduct
There is news going on other than the Inauguration. Although with America's new command economy, it's kind of difficult to separate local from national these days.Take for instance the latest "News Advisory" from the City of Seattle. Finally, after more than thirty years, the Mayor's office announce ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2009
Thanks For The Transit, Uncle Sam
It's official. As expected the, the federal government will be footing the bill for $813 million, or about 40%, of the light rail extension from downtown to the UW. Amusingly, the web headline at The Seattle Times omitted the million part:Sound Transit is asking for more money for the project from O ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2009
What's in a Green New Deal?
The Christian Science Monitor has a story today about whether the recession will prevent the "Green revolution," i.e. the re-making of the world economy along more environmentally sustainable lines. Many worry that the need for economic stimulus and "shovel ready" projects, as well as the structure ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2009
Morning Links
Christine Gregoire can't be Commerce Secretary, but she can be Dino Rossi, much to the chagrine of her supporters. This means she'll still need your help on her talking points. After the Justice Department called them unconstitutional, King County to fix its jails.Farewell, Unitary Executive: Obama ... More >>
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December 10, 2008
Ken Slusher: The West Seattle Bridge Under Construction
Christine Gregoire can't be Commerce Secretary, but she can be Dino Rossi, much to the chagrine of her supporters. This means she'll still need your help on her talking points. After the Justice Department called them unconstitutional, King County to fix its jails.Farewell, Unitary Executive: Obama ... More >>
Blogs
October 3, 2008
McDermott's Unemployment Bill Passes House
Christine Gregoire can't be Commerce Secretary, but she can be Dino Rossi, much to the chagrine of her supporters. This means she'll still need your help on her talking points. After the Justice Department called them unconstitutional, King County to fix its jails.Farewell, Unitary Executive: Obama ... More >>
Blogs
October 2, 2008
Did McDermott Draft Bailout Amendment at WaMu Theater Last Night?
Christine Gregoire can't be Commerce Secretary, but she can be Dino Rossi, much to the chagrine of her supporters. This means she'll still need your help on her talking points. After the Justice Department called them unconstitutional, King County to fix its jails.Farewell, Unitary Executive: Obama ... More >>
News
October 31, 2001
Trenches to troughs
Christine Gregoire can't be Commerce Secretary, but she can be Dino Rossi, much to the chagrine of her supporters. This means she'll still need your help on her talking points. After the Justice Department called them unconstitutional, King County to fix its jails.Farewell, Unitary Executive: Obama ... More >>
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