The Weekend Wrap: "McGinn Wins!", Police Shooting, and Wild Weather

"Taillights through the rain" courtesy of The SunBreak Flickr pool member Great Beyond

As of Friday evening, mayoral candidate Mike McGinn was looking like a winner, with a lead of 2,384 votes over Joe Mallahan. This makes the news of 860 ballots found in a ballot drop box with a vandalized lock less earth-shattering. In general, the election results were pleasing for King County's right-thinking lefties, with R-71's "everything but marriage" approved, I-1033's "government-spending straitjacket" rejected, and Prop. 1's "homelesss housing" passing handily even in a recession.

On the same day as the police procession to honor slain Seattle police office Timothy Brenton , just as his memorial at Key Arena ended, in fact, police confronted a "person of interest " in the shooting of officer Brenton, who was shot by police after drawing a handgun. (Monfort's now in critical condition.) The Seattle Times reports that bomb-making materials, linking Christopher Monfort to the October 22 pipe-bombing of SPD patrol cars , have been found in his apartment. Seattlepi.com worked up their own profile .

Arson flared up twice in Greenwood , making a total of seven arson-related fires over the past few months. Just two weeks ago, four Greenwood businesses were burnt out . This time, the businesses were an accountant's office and a guitar shop .

Meanwhile, rain, thunder, and lightning blew in from a major storm off the coast , leaving mega-puddles and power outages in its wake. Good news came from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, who said that Howard Hanson dam repairs have reduced the risk of flooding considerably, to odds of 1-in-25 (though in a given year, the odds are 1-in-140, so hang on to those sandbags). All in all, it was a timely week to sit down with Q13's Parella Lewis , who besides forecasting weather is also a member of the Washington's Most Wanted team.