As you know by now, yesterday the folks in Olympia screwed the state’s economic engine out of the state’s economic stimulus money, meaning Seattle won’t be getting a dime for the Mercer st. project, the Spokane st. project, or a summer blockbuster based on the former. Who saw this coming, and what does that mean? Here’s our coverage:On Monday, the city council voted to release money for the Mercer project, with several members citing anticipated stimulus funding as a rationale.But Judy Clibborn (House Transportation Committee chair) said that Nickels and Drago knew the funding wasn’t coming and for some reason kept mum. Nick Licata and Tom Rasmussen called for the council to reassess its release of funds. Though Nickels gave a speech yesterday morning indicating the city wouldn’t get funding, his spokesperson says Nickels was like the rest of us, watching TV-W to find out what would happen.Likewise for Jan Drago, who says she was told by Clibborn, “if they opened the package to local projects [i.e. non-state roads projects] that all of her members would want a piece of that.” Drago said the state’s funding decision make “absolutely no sense. It’s not logical.”