Recent Stories with tag debate

See, it's like the bus is rising health care costs. And we're all on it.

Here's a local angle on the health care reform debate. This afternoon, I was minding my own business when a chat window popped up. My friend, let's call him Mr. Doe, said, "Wanna hear a funny story?":

I was watching this and eating lunch at my desk --> Obama healthcare speech <--

when I got a call from the "pre-collections" team at [local hospital] because my insurance company took 6 months to decide that they would not cover the expense associated with removing 6 stitches from my son's hand.

There's a visual joke here--watching me try to take notes with my broken hand [snowboard accident]. I'm waiting to get a CAT scan because my insurance will apparently pass on the full price of the procedure to me.

I couldn't even watch the rest of the Obama speech. Let me know how it turns out.

They want to give me 2 CAT scans. One for the hand and another for the wrist. I guess these two body parts are far enough apart as to require separate billable procedures.

"Did we already pass the funny part?" I wrote back....

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Let me say at the outset, this is a judgment call. While Seattle has been scratching its head over which of the two neophytes to choose for mayor, we can at least be glad that we're choosing between two candidates who are deeply invested in Seattle, and who each represent, in their ways, a lot of what Seattle has going for it.

I've been wrestling with which of the candidates to vote for. Even though McGinn is far and away the more knowledgeable about city politics, I still wanted to know if he could be mayor of all of Seattle, not just The Stranger.

I stopped in at a mayoral candidates debate held over the weekend at Seattle University to get an in-person read. While McGinn's anti-tunnel stance warms my heart, I'm not prepared to vote for him on that basis alone--as McGinn himself mentioned during questioning Saturday, if the deep-bore tunnel is the boondoggle he thinks it is, it may very well stop itself in its tracks.

Mike McGinn

I want to bring up the very-much-alive ghost of Governor Moonbeam because Jerry...

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"I'm thinking of writing in Nickels," writes a commenter on the seattlepi.com recap of the Monday mayoral candidates debate hosted by City Club. "I wonder if people didn't realize how the top-two system worked and thought they were voting for who to run against Nickels, and then forgot to actually vote for Nickels."

At The SunBreak offices, we've been kicking around the idea of a "Write In Nickels" campaign, now that everyone has had their chance to punish the mayor in the primaries. While there are certainly Mallahan and McGinn partisans, another segment of Seattle remains bewildered by the primary results.

If you missed the standing-room-only debate at the Seattle Public Library, you didn't miss much. "Monday night's debate at the downtown Seattle library was a departure from the campaign's focus on the candidates' disagreement over whether to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a $4.2 billion tunnel project," reports the Seattle Times.

That meant the evening focused largely on management style and ducking...

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