Tigabie TekebaWhen I wrote this week’s story on the taxi war ignited by King County’s attempt to hand off licenses to Green Cab without any public process, I heard company president Tigabie Tekeba had been hospitalized for something — nobody knew exactly what. Several sources in contact with Green Cab representatives have told me since that Tekeba has been in a coma for several weeks due to a brain infection. It’s but another sad chapter in this mess. “To be on the verge of getting the licenses, only to have the injunction (stopping the county from giving them to Green Cab), and then to have the president to get sick like this, it’s a lot of blows,” says Green Cab attorney Mike Scott. He says nonetheless that the company intends to apply for the licenses that the county is now offering through an RFP. To make sure that the temporary restraining order doesn’t inadvertently prevent the county from choosing Green Cab in this second go round, it has filed a motion asking that the order be lifted. The groups suing the county oppose such a move.