| SMOOTHIES | ROUGHNECKS |
|---|---|
| Eight King County Council members played tough by stripping the $90,000 personal slush funds of five colleagues. The victimized pols plan to retaliate by leaving flaming bags of poo outside their enemies’ office doors, then knocking. | Channel One is gone from Seattle Public Schools, after board members rapped the daily current-events program’s shallow coverage, pointless visuals, and intrusive advertising. Besides, they can get all that for free on KING 5. |
| Former mayor Norm Rice will head the transition team for Mayor-elect Greg Nickels. This will enable Rice to help clear out all the deadwood—whom he gave jobs to in the first place. | Two candidates for the Sultan City Council may see their election settled by a coin flip after each received 496 votes. Does the winner of the flip take office, or the loser? |
| Local newspapers got another chance to recycle their endless coverage of famed skyjacker D.B. Cooper on the 30th anniversary of his crime. Hasn’t that guy died of natural causes by now? | A tugboat company whose barge smashed into the Highway 520 bridge supports still won’t pay the repair tab. The company is instead offering an apology and a promise not to do it again. |
News Clips— Smoothies/Roughnecks
